Zilean
Hardest matchups for Zilean in Support (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Janna, 
Blitzcrank, 
Amumu. Easiest: 
Mel, 
Ashe, 
Camille.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into ZileanOn the pro tier list
Zilean on patch 16.22
- Support52.8%#1 of 77S7,003 games
- Mid55.8%#2 of 91S615 games
- steady since 16.21
Zilean’s main role on patch 16.22 is Support: a 52.8% win rate across 7,003 Emerald games, #1 of 77 Support champions on the tier list (grade S), picked in 2.9% of games. Zilean is also played Mid: a 55.8% win rate across 615 games, #2 of 91. Since patch 16.21, Zilean Support has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.0 points across 35,005 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support87% of its games | S | 51.8%51.9% raw ±0.7 | 20,720 | 3.0%2.0% banned | 52.8%47.7% first time |
| Mid7% of its games | A | 51.6%52.4% raw ±2.3 | 1,776 | 0.3%2.0% banned | 52.3%45.9% first time |
| Top5% of its games | S | 52.7%54.8% raw ±2.8 | 1,210 | 0.2%2.0% banned | 51.5%46.8% first time |
| Bot1% of its games | too few games | 51.0%57.7% raw ±8.2 | 142 | 0.0%2.0% banned | 51.8%47.4% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.9%0.0% raw ±69.3 | 2 | 0.0%2.0% banned | 51.4%47.2% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Zilean’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Zilean, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Zilean
Lane leads and team bans
What Zilean’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Zilean than the other team does in the same games (121,106 games). The other team banned before Zilean was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Zilean was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Zilean is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Enchanter
54.6%13,901 games - Tank
55.8%1,934 games - Mana stack
53.9%1,644 games - AP sustained
54.4%486 games - AP burst
54.5%411 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Zilean does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
22,328 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite52.3% · 2,425 games
Summon AerySorcery + Domination · 51.7%
Manaflow Band · Transcendence · Scorch · Cheap Shot · Ultimate HunterShards: Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health
Support item: Solstice Sleigh · 52.8%
Key items: Shurelya's Battlesong → Bandlepipes · 54.0%
Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity · 55.0%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite52.3%2,425 games · 11% pick rate · same players: +0.2 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Heal52.0%13,938 games · 62% pick rate · the usual choice
Exhaust + Flash51.2%5,699 games · 26% pick rate · same players: −1.0 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Summon Aery + Domination51.7%8,499 games · 38% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Summon Aery + Inspiration51.5%5,272 games · 24% pick rate · same players: −0.3 pts vs the usual
Summon Aery + Precision51.7%453 games · 2.0% pick rate · same players: −0.4 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Arcane Comet + Inspiration50.8%2,638 games · 12% pick rate · same players: −0.5 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Summon Aery
- Manaflow Band51.7%95% take it
Axiom Arcanist51.9%3.1% take it
Nimbus Cloak57.3%2.3% take it
- Transcendence51.4%92% take it
Celerity56.5%8.1% take it
- Scorch53.5%21% take it
Waterwalking51.0%71% take it
Gathering Storm54.4%7.8% take it
- Cheap Shot51.6%86% take it
- Ultimate Hunter53.6%12% take it
Relentless Hunter51.4%88% take it
Deep Ward55.0%9.3% take it
Grisly Mementos49.1%2.4% take it
- Adaptive Force52.1%17% take it
- Ability Haste51.8%81% take it
- Move Speed53.4%21% take it
- Adaptive Force51.4%74% take it
- Health Scaling51.7%5.5% take it
- Health54.0%21% take it
- Health Scaling51.1%74% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist52.2%5.4% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Zilean’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Zilean’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Zilean does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Zilean wins 47.4%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 53.0%. That gap ranks it 73 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 16K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Zilean in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
Zilean has not been played in the major leagues this season.
How much knowing Zilean pays
Players on their Mastery band win 5.5 points more on Zilean than first-timers do: #73 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Zilean players win 53.0%: #40 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 53.4%, and is half-way up by ~16K points.
ZileanDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Zilean ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Brand, Zyra, Maokai.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.