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Zilean Build Guides, Runes and Items

Zilean The Chronokeeper

Find the best Zilean build guides for League of Legends S13 Patch 13.10. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Zilean build for the S13 meta. Learn more about Zilean's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Zilean Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Zilean we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Zilean, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Zilean this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 13.10. However, if you are a new Zilean player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Zilean!

Patch 13.10: 1846765 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Zilean's Runes

Zilean's Best Runes 51%

Win Rate 5798 Games

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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Summon Aery
Summon Aery
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Waterwalking
Waterwalking

Domination
LoL Path: Domination
LoL Rune: Relentless Hunter
Relentless Hunter
LoL Rune: Cheap Shot
Cheap Shot

Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Runes 50%

Win Rate 2970 Games

Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Summon Aery
Summon Aery
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Scorch
Scorch

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
LoL Rune: Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery
LoL Rune: Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Runes 49%

Win Rate 1894 Games

Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Scorch
Scorch

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
LoL Rune: Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery
LoL Rune: Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight

Zilean's Summoner Spells

Zilean's Best Summoner Spells 51%

Win Rate 11790 Games

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Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 51%

Win Rate 9543 Games

Exhaust Flash

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 53%

Win Rate 1997 Games

Flash Heal

Zilean's Starters

Zilean's Best Starter Items 51%

Win Rate 59714 Games

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Trinket

Zilean's Best Trinket 51%

Win Rate 22488 Games

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Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Trinket 36%

Win Rate 987 Games

Stealth Ward

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Trinket 39%

Win Rate 125 Games

Farsight Alteration
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Zilean's Ability Order

Zilean's Best Ability Order 65%

Win Rate 1376 Games

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Patch 13.10: 1846738 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Zilean's Runes

Zilean's Best Runes 60%

Win Rate 90 Games

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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Summon Aery
Summon Aery
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Scorch
Scorch

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
LoL Rune: Minion Dematerializer
Minion Dematerializer
LoL Rune: Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight

Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Runes 55%

Win Rate 504 Games

Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Summon Aery
Summon Aery
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Scorch
Scorch

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
LoL Rune: Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery
LoL Rune: Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Runes 57%

Win Rate 113 Games

Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
LoL Rune: Summon Aery
Summon Aery
LoL Rune: Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band
LoL Rune: Transcendence
Transcendence
LoL Rune: Scorch
Scorch

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
LoL Rune: Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery
LoL Rune: Cosmic Insight
Cosmic Insight

Zilean's Summoner Spells

Zilean's Best Summoner Spells 55%

Win Rate 2368 Games

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Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 59%

Win Rate 61 Games

Flash Barrier

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 57%

Win Rate 157 Games

Exhaust Flash

Zilean's Starters

Zilean's Best Starter Items 53%

Win Rate 4370 Games

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Trinket

Zilean's Best Trinket 55%

Win Rate 1602 Games

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Second Best

Zilean's 2nd Best Trinket 57%

Win Rate 990 Games

Farsight Alteration

Third Best

Zilean's 3rd Best Trinket 53%

Win Rate 464 Games

Oracle Lens
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Zilean's Ability Order

Zilean's Best Ability Order 64%

Win Rate 706 Games

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Zilean Counters

Learn Zilean's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Zilean guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!


This counter data is for Zilean Support in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Zilean. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

CR is Counter Rating, which is a combination of multiple counter factors. Counters shown are for Zilean Zilean Support

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Zilean's Abilities

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Zilean & Fountain of Life Rune

So, I'm new to LOL by a large margin,I guess,and I following various builds. One that catches my attention is one with [[Fountain of Life]]. The rune mentions that when you impair a champion' movement,any ally that attacks that champion heals. I...

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Can you help me out with Zilean?

So I'm new to the game and I like to play support because of my personality.I'm trying to rank up and my main sp champion is Zilean.Is he a viable champion for rank?Can you give me tips for playing him or any tip on playing sp overall.I'm really...

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Zilean's Time Bomb Stun Problem

The most annoying thing that could happen when using Zilean is when you quickly Q>W>Q at *almost* the same ground/champion they do not stick to the same unit/champion. Do I just need more practice or something is really off with the time...

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Feeling difficult to deal damage to mages who build RoA, what should I do?

Situation: In the early-mid game, I built Morellonomicon, opponent built RoA. Problem: Feeling difficult to deal damage to opponents who build RoA. As they have higher effective health after building RoA, I feel like 'my abilities do not...

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Does Morde's ult stop Zileans Revive?

Alright, so i was just in a game of ARAM, and i was trying to taunt their morde to dive me. My ult was up, i saw the hourglasses rotate around me, but he ulted me and i still died. So my question is, does mordekaisers ult stop mine because of the...

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Zilean, Time Master or something like that

I've recently started using Zilean since he's free this week. My reason for doing so is that I've seen players say that Zilean is a terrible champ and I've actually googled about him and the results from what I've seen say that he sucks. . after...

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Zilean Viable?

Personally, I have always like [[zilean]] as a champion. And now that [[tear of the goddess]] is cheaper, I figure that his mana issues will be solved, yet I never seem to see any [[zilean]]s...

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