Skill based match-up, one of the worst. Most match up are playable as Zilean, this is purely depending on how you position and how effectively you can use your E.
Zyra
Danger! Zyra is hardest of the hardest, really hard to play this, stand back and consider poking while never truly fighting, play the weakside, hope you can do more later.
Alistar
Stay out of range of Flash Q, and of combo!!!!!
Bard
Not an easy one to play, pay attention to not get caught by his stuns and his ult. Try to keep E or W at all time later on to run away from his ult or help one of your teammates escape.
Blitzcrank
Dodge and weave baby
Braum
Annoying for sure. Weakside time.
Brand
Just use E to dodge his stun and you shouldn't be able to lose this matchup.
Galio
Stay out of his E range, slow him as he uses taunts so you can run out of it without him having enough time to expand it.
Gragas
Very easy matchup, stay out of his E range and no threat at all, pay attention to his ult later on, but still easily avoidable with your E.
Janna
Karma
Morgana
Lux
Lulu
Leona
This is why you run guardian and exhaust. With those, this isn't that hard to play.
Pyke
Ult makes his life hard, so does move speed.
Nautilus
If he ever steps up to hook, insta E and dodge and weave baby.
Nami
For all those enchanters here, you play pretty much the same way, if they ever mess up, E into double bomb into kill.
Rell
Need fast reactions and good visions.
Rakan
Move speed and slow are a killer for Rakan.
Yuumi
Soraka
Sona
Vayne
Hyper carries are always a good thing, vayne in particular benefits from your E the most. Her small range is her weakness, but the movespeed provided allows a good Vayne to kite without taking that many risks.
Jhin
Great match-up! However!!! Very important!!! YOU MUST PLAY THE AERY RUNE PAGE WITH JHIN!!! This is mandatory! Why ? Because Jhin can NOT get the root on his W from your E slow only!! It doesn't deal damage! With Aery it's a different story, hit one E and the ennemy is cc chained for years! The move speed works so well with Jhin aswell.
Jinx
Hyper carries all the way!! Great ADC to have by your sides.
Aphelios
Hyper carries, still great, you get the idea.
Ezreal
This is the amazing weakside botlane. You just scale and never fight and you are unkillable.
Xayah
It's aight, good cc chain!
Ashe
Pretty strong! Lvl 6 is great, however fighting agressive botlanes will be tough early on.
Draven
This is the L9 special honestly, a good Draven and Zilean botlane is terrifying, it's great when you get a lead, the snowball is just too amazing.
Caitlyn
Not the greatest but still works, just not as dominating as the other ADCs
Kalista
Nah
Kai'Sa
It works just fine don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have that crazy of a synergy.
Kog'Maw
Pretty good, but you're not lulu
Lucian
Very little synergy here.
Miss Fortune
On paper, this is strong, if you get a double bomb stun, Miss Fortune gets a free ult, when it comes to ingame, this is a little bit harder to make it happen, personally i'm not a fan of it, but i would still say it's good synergy if played properly.
Samira
This can work, but synergy wise it's not as crazy. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, just harder to play.
Senna
Not that bad actually, even better if you are doing fasting Senna!
Sivir
It's okay, but there's pretty much zero synergy except for going really fast, this is just good when the Sivir is really amazing with movements, otherwise you should look for an ADC that has more synergy.
Tristana
Not that bad, however you will not win every lane with this combo.
Twitch
Really not that much to do in lane with Twitch, you won't provide him buffs like an enchanter would, you won't find good fights like an engager would. Not the greatest synergy. However, you can help him survive pretty well later on.
Varus
Works pretty well if you go for the poke (Aery rune page). Good lane bully combo. Level 6 is pretty much a kill guaranteed if the ennemy isn't running cleanse.
Synergies
IdealStrongOkLowNone
Vayne
Hyper carries are always a good thing, vayne in particular benefits from your E the most. Her small range is her weakness, but the movespeed provided allows a good Vayne to kite without taking that many risks.
Jhin
Great match-up! However!!! Very important!!! YOU MUST PLAY THE AERY RUNE PAGE WITH JHIN!!! This is mandatory! Why ? Because Jhin can NOT get the root on his W from your E slow only!! It doesn't deal damage! With Aery it's a different story, hit one E and the ennemy is cc chained for years! The move speed works so well with Jhin aswell.
Jinx
Hyper carries all the way!! Great ADC to have by your sides.
Aphelios
Hyper carries, still great, you get the idea.
Ezreal
This is the amazing weakside botlane. You just scale and never fight and you are unkillable.
Xayah
It's aight, good cc chain!
Ashe
Pretty strong! Lvl 6 is great, however fighting agressive botlanes will be tough early on.
Draven
This is the L9 special honestly, a good Draven and Zilean botlane is terrifying, it's great when you get a lead, the snowball is just too amazing.
Caitlyn
Not the greatest but still works, just not as dominating as the other ADCs
Kalista
Nah
Kai'Sa
It works just fine don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have that crazy of a synergy.
Kog'Maw
Pretty good, but you're not lulu
Lucian
Very little synergy here.
Miss Fortune
On paper, this is strong, if you get a double bomb stun, Miss Fortune gets a free ult, when it comes to ingame, this is a little bit harder to make it happen, personally i'm not a fan of it, but i would still say it's good synergy if played properly.
Samira
This can work, but synergy wise it's not as crazy. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, just harder to play.
Senna
Not that bad actually, even better if you are doing fasting Senna!
Sivir
It's okay, but there's pretty much zero synergy except for going really fast, this is just good when the Sivir is really amazing with movements, otherwise you should look for an ADC that has more synergy.
Tristana
Not that bad, however you will not win every lane with this combo.
Twitch
Really not that much to do in lane with Twitch, you won't provide him buffs like an enchanter would, you won't find good fights like an engager would. Not the greatest synergy. However, you can help him survive pretty well later on.
Varus
Works pretty well if you go for the poke (Aery rune page). Good lane bully combo. Level 6 is pretty much a kill guaranteed if the ennemy isn't running cleanse.
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[12.14] Nino's Zilean master Support Build/Guide!
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