Zilean vs Morgana Counter Pick

Zilean’s 550 attack range sits 100 units past Morgana’s 450, and that gap matters because both champions deal magic damage and both prefer to land skillshots from a safe distance. Zilean makes good use of it: across 639 games on patch 16.13.1 he wins 56.7% of the time, a rating of Easy backed by a sample big enough to take seriously.

On the other side, Dark Binding carries nearly all of Morgana’s offense. If it misses, she is left at 450 range with only Tormented Shadow damaging the ground. Zilean can hang back outside that circle, drop Time Bomb, and then double it with Rewind to stun anyone who steps inside for a two-bomb combo. Morgana does have a real defensive tool: Black Shield soaks magic damage and disabling effects, so a single ally can ignore both the damage and the stun. It cannot stop Chronoshift from landing after the fact, though, and it does nothing about Time Warp slowing Morgana as she closes in to cast Soul Shackles. In raw stats she is the sturdier of the two, with 630 health, 25 armour at level one, and 2,398 health at level eighteen, compared with 574 health, 24 armour and 2,206 health for Zilean. Both move at 335. Her Soul Siphon restores health whenever she damages champions or large monsters, so a long poke exchange that never turns into a kill slowly tilts toward her. Complexity ratings of 1 for Zilean and 6 for Morgana show that his recorded advantage comes with a real demand on execution.