Renekton vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Renekton
based on 671 Renekton vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Renekton vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Renekton vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Renekton
Tips for Playing as Renekton against Zilean
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Renekton vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Renekton in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Renekton vs. Zilean counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between this set of champs. Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Renekton normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Renekton and Zilean
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Who is Better, Renekton or Zilean?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually loses when facing off against Zilean, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Renekton does have a much lower win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Renekton also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Renekton into Zilean.
Furthermore, Renekton also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Renekton is a trash counter for Zilean. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renekton in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton on average accumulates much more CS as Zilean. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Renekton versus Zilean build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Zilean than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when playing against Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Zilean as Renekton, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Renekton vs Zilean clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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