Seraphine vs Zilean Counter Pick

A record of 2,143 matches under patch 16.13.1 makes the 46.7% Seraphine posts against Zilean difficult to dismiss, and the Hard grade attached to it is carried almost entirely by one ultimate. Chronoshift places a rune on an ally that returns them to life after lethal damage, erasing the payoff of a doubled Encore or a coordinated engage.

The rest of his kit works along the same axis of denial. Time Warp either slows an enemy or hastens an ally, answering the movement impairment on Beat Drop directly, and Rewind lowers the cooldowns of his other basic abilities so Time Bomb can be applied twice in quick succession against a champion with no dash. The stat sheets are close: Zilean runs 574 base health to 2,206 with 24 armor growing to 109, Seraphine 570 to 2,185 with 26 growing to 97.4, and his 335 movement speed edges her 330. His damage is pure magic while hers is mixed, so magic resistance on a 30 base is her correct first resistance. Time In A Bottle stores experience and hands a level to an ally on demand, a tempo tool Seraphine has no answer to, and he attacks from 550 units to her 525. Execution reads 6 for Zilean against 0 for Seraphine, and both spend Mana. Neither carries a dash, so the exchange reduces to a contest of timing between two stationary casters.