Soraka vs Zilean Counter Pick

Healing against healing usually rewards whoever heals more, and this pairing is the exception. Chronoshift restores no health at all: it places a rune that rewinds an ally back into the fight after lethal damage, converting a lost trade into a won one in a way Wish cannot match regardless of how large the number gets. Rewind then shortens the cooldowns on Time Bomb and Time Warp, so Zilean recycles his kit faster than Soraka recycles hers. Time Bomb sticks to whatever comes near it, prioritizes champions and detonates after three seconds, which lets him put damage on the ground without ever entering Starcall range.

The stat sheet says Zilean should be the more fragile support, with 574 base health and 2,206 at level 18 against 605 and 2,101, plus 24 base armor to Soraka’s 32, and it does not matter. Time Warp cuts an enemy’s movement speed on command, and Soraka’s 325 was already the slower figure against his 335. Both attack from 550 units, both deal magic damage, both start on 30 magic resistance, so nothing in the raw profile explains the outcome. The ultimate does. Salvation, which speeds Soraka toward wounded allies, is her only movement tool and it triggers only once the damage has landed. Across 1,071 games on patch 16.13.1 Soraka comes out behind at 46.2 percent against Zilean, a hard matchup by the computed grade.