Zilean Mid build & stats
- Win rate
- 52.8%
- Pick rate
- 0.4%
- Ban rate
- 2.1%
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Recommended build
Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.17
Start with
Best three items so far
Boots
Runes
Sorcery +
Inspiration 
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.
Sorcery
Inspiration
Summoner spells
Max order
Q
E
W
Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.
Tips for Zilean
Generated from this patch's numbers
- Zilean wins 52.8% of games as Mid on patch 16.17 (358 games).
- Most common core: Archangel's Staff → Cosmic Drive → Winter's Approach — 60% win rate over 5 games.
- Take Summon Aery as keystone: picked in 68% of games with a 56% win rate.
- Best matchup: Syndra (68% over 19 games). Hardest: Zed (25% over 12 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
- Zilean scales: 58% win rate after 35 minutes versus 49% before 25. Farm safely early and never surrender.
Items
Most common sets of three completed items
Core build
Starting items
Boots
Legendary items by win rate
| Item | Win rate | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| 100.0% | 1% (3) | |
| 88.9% | 3% (9) | |
| 76.9% | 7% (26) | |
| 66.7% | 3% (12) | |
| 65.8% | 21% (76) | |
| 64.5% | 9% (31) | |
| 61.1% | 5% (18) | |
| 57.1% | 4% (14) | |
| 50.0% | 2% (8) | |
| 50.0% | 1% (4) | |
| 25.0% | 1% (4) | |
| 20.0% | 1% (5) |
Runes
Most played full pages and keystone win rates
Sorcery +
Inspiration
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.
Sorcery
Inspiration
Sorcery +
Precision
Sorcery +
Precision
Keystones
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Summon Aery
Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.
60.4%31% pick
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Arcane Comet
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.
60.7%8% pick
Summoner spells
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Flash + Teleport
61.0%34% pick
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Flash + Ignite
70.0%3% pick
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Exhaust + Flash
50.0%2% pick
Abilities & skill order
Which ability to max first, from match timelines
Q
E
W
60.9%23 games
Most common first three levels: Q → W → E (50%), Q → W → Q (70%), Q → E → W (33%).
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PTime In A BottleZilean stores time as Experience and can grant it to his allies. When he has enough Experience to finish an ally's level up, he can right-click them to impart it. Zilean receives as much Experience as he gives.
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QTime Bomb
Tosses a bomb to target area that sticks to units that come near it (prioritizes Champions). It detonates after 3 seconds, dealing area of effect damage. If a Time Bomb is detonated early by another Time Bomb, it also st...
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WRewind
Zilean can prepare himself for future confrontations, reducing the cooldowns of his other basic abilities.
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ETime Warp
Zilean bends time around any unit, decreasing an enemy's Move Speed or increasing an ally's Move Speed for a short time.
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RChronoshiftZilean places a protective time rune on an allied champion, teleporting the champion back in time if they take lethal damage.