Zilean
Computed from 65,425 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Mid | 52.7% | 0.2% |
| Support | 51.5% | 2.1% |
Zilean is banned in about 1.0% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Zilean's Support win rate is 1.5 percentage points above an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Zilean is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Support — its numbers in Mid (0.2% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Zilean's Support Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21 (including games from other ranks or the previous patch, as Emerald+ on this patch alone had too few), Zilean's most common Support setup runs Exhaust and Flash with Summon Aery, maxes E first, and builds Shurelya's Battlesong, Bandlepipes, and Locket of the Iron Solari — 51.8% win rate over 26,332 games.
- Summoner spells
Exhaust + Flash
52.2%6,145 games - Runes
Summon Aery + Inspiration
50.8%2,370 games - Skill priority E > W > Q 55.1%5,924 games
- Starter
Health Potion ×2
51.8%25,028 games - Boots
Boots of Swiftness
54.7%3,567 games - First three items
Shurelya's Battlesong → Bandlepipes → Locket of the Iron Solari
62.1%335 games
Zilean's Support Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 51.3% | 1.2% | 2,973 | 0.18σ | No |
| Bronze | 50.5% | 1.4% | 4,226 | 0.09σ | No |
| Silver | 51.1% | 1.7% | 6,474 | 0.19σ | No |
| Gold | 52.0% | 2.0% | 8,618 | 0.37σ | No |
| Platinum | 51.2% | 2.5% | 11,444 | 0.24σ | No |
| Emerald | 51.8% | 2.8% | 10,534 | 0.41σ | No |
| Diamond | 51.8% | 3.2% | 10,519 | 0.41σ | No |
| Master | 50.5% | 3.3% | 4,996 | 0.11σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 54.5% | 2.7% | 245 | 0.59σ | Yes |
Zilean's Support win rate ranges from 50.5% at Bronze to 54.5% at Grandmaster across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 3.9-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.59σ at Grandmaster and 0.09σ at Bronze, with only the Grandmaster figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Late game
- Threats
- None of the seven we track
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Zilean in Support?
Champions That Counter Zilean
| Champion | Win Rate vs Zilean | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Heimerdinger |
54.1% | 0.85σ |
Jhin |
54.0% | 0.83σ |
Rammus |
53.2% | 0.67σ |
Amumu |
52.6% | 0.54σ |
Elise |
52.5% | 0.52σ |
Champions Zilean Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Zilean | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Locke |
42.3% | 1.61σ |
Trundle |
43.0% | 1.46σ |
Ahri |
43.2% | 1.43σ |
Ashe |
43.7% | 1.31σ |
Veigar |
43.8% | 1.30σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Zilean: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 2-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.