Looks like another fun champion I can feed on

League Of Legends in a nutshell. "This legend is not popular because it's a team player"

“Movement speed never matter with a champion with a dash” Udyr running at 200 km/h speed to clap your whole team:

Zilean definitely feels like a champion that needs an update,at least visually.Zilean just looks like a crazy old man who was crucified to a clock.Gameplay wise I still enjoy him despite his simplicity.

i fervently hope zilean always stays unpopular, so that riot won't touch him and people won't ban him. if you build him in an unconventional way, he becomes insanely OP

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"No one can literally revive a champion" Oh how things have changed

Zilean is that one guy I go to when the entire team inevitably picks 4 ad champions and you have to blow someone up with magic damage while still supporting.

His gameplay actually feels fun and engaging . It's his visuals or vfx that don't look as flashy compared to others .

Please talk about " Anime main character syndrome" it got a good laugh out of me when you said that.

I appreciate the video and I now really understand why I love Zilean so much. I am an older man myself and I really don't want to be the spotlight of my team. I let you kids do your thing. I am here to make the best out of time.

I’ve mained Zil for about 6 months now and he is so criminally underrated. Can become a second mid ap mage and do as much damage as his ad carry.

For me Zilean was indeed that pocket pick for the longest time. Eventually when statistics were showed after season ended, I realized that I had ~90% wr with him. That's how my go to pick was born. Lots of tank support enemies were caught off guard when I used Q on a cannon minion as they were going for the Relic Shield stack. I also noted that in my elo (High plat - Low dia) tank supports are kinda useless (This is arguable, but when I as Rell had 300+ armor and enemy Jhin still almost oneshotted me I rest my case) bringing another high burst of damage with AoE stun + 30 sec cd on Chronoshift really made a difference in teamfights. The instance you stated where Chronoshift may not make much of a difference, due to that 3 sec window that can turn the tides of a teamfight, I found that I use it early on my most fed glass cannon in the backlines if enemy has Assassins. The fact that one of the enemies' high damage dealers is occupied on the backline means he is getting easily targeted by the rest of the team and if the teamfight goes on for a longer period of time, you may use your ult a second time. As you said, Zilean needs a team to perform well and above all a good encager to absorb two bombs at the start. Great video :)

I main this zilean, and he can carry games consistently with his 90% ap bombs

zilean''s Q used to be a pintpoint skill instead of a skillshot, not only his pasive was changed, his Q was also

I'm main Zilean, he's a greatest mid/support.

The only reason I hardly ever play Zilean is that his autoattack animation takes more time than the length of an average game of league to hit a minion. If he had faster and smoother animations I would certainly play him more often. I get the strategy and patience theme of the champion, but I would expect a minion to be dead after 2 seconds I autoattacked it. I mean, probably it's dead but not by your autoattack.. (Please Riot Morgana-rework him, please)

Well, yes and no, Zilean is extremely powerfull in the right hands. Zilean can burst a target to oblivion, with offtank ap items in a support, he is not an enchanter, he is more like a utility brand. You can really change and solo carry pretty easy at level 13 too 16, and have a really good lane after lvl 3, and dive at lvl 6. He is not flashy, that is true, but a 1.5 aoe 800 ap bomb at lvl 13 is pretty much game changing, but yes, is not popular, becaused is not a mommy who protect the carrie, or a murderer who can 1 v 3, he is a 2 v 2 champion, who needs a lot of experiencie, tactics and good sense of carrie. I feel people dont play him because he is too dificult as an enchanter, and can't melt like a traditional mage with dps, he is a tactician and a player maker support. Good video, nice editing and yeah, a lot of what you say is true in the eyes of the normal player.

It's awesome to find your channel. it's nice to find hidden gem KZfaqrs in the league community who put as much effort as you did in your video.

"No one can autorevive an allied champion" That didn't age so well

I saw him as one of the least "popular" champion when sorted by popularity. I took one look at his abilities, thought it was pretty interesting and chose to unlock him. My first game i went against bots to kind of get the feel. And then my first game against real people, got 10 kills, 10 deaths and 28 assist. The rank was S. He's such a good support in terms of being a combat supporter. I mean that he greatly supports aggressive champions

I'd argue he is extremely power in a master mind's hands, his ap ratios are 90% which is a lot in this meta, and he is heavily anti assassin due to his entire kit (thank god, this meta needs a Zilean), the one thing I mostly can say that utterly ruins him, to the point he is at a disadvantage, is when the enemy has a Dash/Blink to the likes of Lucian/Ezreal, unless your Zilean is a god among men. To think of it, he can arguably out do even adcs in the adc role if he builds adc, his mediocre on hit damage can be made up, for the fact he has: A free ga, slow/speed (up to 99%, not affected by AP ratios), a free stun (dependent on the skill of the Zilean, pretty decent late game base damage). If you add all of this up, if he builds the exact items, as an adc, ideally, he'll be better if he utilizes his kits in a duel, to shutdown and bully the enemy into submission. Against kog'maw? Great! Stun, slow, run circles around him, stun again, pew pew pew, and ga yourself if need be. Of course, I do not advise people to do this, his ap is just god tier. I feel like there is a few ways to play Zilean, you can play him on a macro scale, or on the stereotypical league skill. You can kill an entire team, this is true, easily, 1v5, however, you can also support your team and better their advantages, by speeding up the hecarim, slowing down an enemy hecarim, stunning the mf using her ult, etc... And, with your r, you can guarantee the Jhin has 2-3 lives, depending on if they have ga. Essentially, my argument is, because of his kit, if played with a one trick who has the intent to carry, at a higher elo than average, he could very easily carry his games, if he utilizes it do so. I have done this many times in fact, and I'm not a high elo. I do agree though that Zilean doesn't have a high play rate, due to it not being designed for the player base that league has, it takes too much macro (even if trying to carry), positioning, etc... And, if you mess up, inevitably, you have a higher chance of dying than, say, a Ryze. This is because you have 1 ability that does damage, using that ability twice (via w), you can stun. Your speed, which is negated if they stun/slow you, is 99%. Your best bet is to slow them, or if they can't slow, speed yourself up. You do have a back up free r, but, at that point, you'd have to be near a tower or explosion plant, or team members. And, most players like to see things instantly that looks 'cool', like a yas r, an akali r, a yone r, unlike Zilean who's whole gameplay is to analyze the situation and conform your team to an advantageous position, that or he can be a mindless dummy that stuns other mindless dummies and win off that alone. However, I do believe him not being played too often, is a good thing. Because of Zilean's great kit, but low play rate, he has virtually been unnoticed by both the league player base and riot balance teams, which is great for the Zilean players. Whenever I play with a friend for the first time as Zilean, they freak out, because they've never heard of a champion who literally gives free exp (changing the pace of the game, favorable towards Vayne and Kayl), let alone his stun being an entire team wide, and his r healing back a Sion to full health, and his e making any Hecarim easily win fights, and slowing down their assassins if they get caught out. This is good news for Zilean, as that means many players, especially in low elo, cannot counter him accurately, and that league will not nerf him into oblivion. (This became very disorganized above, sorry for writing this so disorganized) I also realize I am saying exactly what every other Zilean is saying, but louder, so sorry for that too. If you do want to play, or anything, I'm always down to play with people. ( Otto von Austria is my main account ) I do also agree he is dependent on synergy, but I'd like to mention, he can make any duo bot work, so long as they have communication, communication is super crucial with Zileans.

It's a shame he is so unpopular, I mean especially when he combos really well with other unpopular champions like Kayle who can really benefit from his passive.

Zilean doesnt need a vgu, he just needs a legendary skin

"ZIlean has no play making potencial" This is so wrong it's painful. He literally has the bestt CC potencial in the game if you hit double qs consistently. And with 2 items you can throw double qs every 4-5 seconds. It's insanely good. Plus his buff of speed or slow is literally made for playmaking, and his ult can win the game by itself.

another reason zilean doesn't see much play is due to the toxicity of teammates, this is kinda 2 reasons but theyre related. Zil's ult is finnicky at times, and in a fight where your teammates are bunched up on each other there's going to be times where the wrong person gets ulted, or god forbid you click a pixel off and you ult yourself, on other champions missing a ult is a few question mark pings and maybe someone pinging that you're alive, but whenever an ADC or midlaner feels like theyve been jipped theyll immediately spend the next 20-40 minutes making sure to make the game hell for you, and since your Zilean you cant really just ignore them or youre probably going to lose the game since like you mentioned Zils an enabler of plays. Now that already a bad thing to happen during the teamfight phase but theyre a specific scenario that seems to happen way too often to us Zilean support mains and thats the adc thinking we are both an omniscient god and stupid scum, and by that i mean that they seem to think that our ult can be applied halfway across the map just by pressing r or something like that, theyll dive 2 enemies under tower whyll your warding drag, die, then flame you for for the rest of the game, or theyll decide to do other stupid crap like back in the open 2 seconds after seeing a shaco go invis, or face check a bush they know has a 80 percent chance of having 4 enemies inside and knowing you just saved thier ass like 3 seconds ago. And the worst part is that sometimes its not even just lol players being toxic, some of them legitimately have no clue what zilean does, for an example of this, my nephew was in a a league club at his school and had been playing adc for about 3-4 years, asked me what my favorite character was, and when i said Zil he legitimately had no idea who i was talking about even after showing him the picture, and ive had around 4 sperate situations where my adc would actually ask me what zilean does lol. its maddening tbh.

Zilean Main Here: Overall this seems like a pretty fair video, though there are two points which I'd contest. Firstly, Zilean, like most champs, can be extremely skill expressive. Secondly, I think you aren't accounting for the cc from Zileans double q combo. I've turned around team fights with a RQQ combo.

I played lol 2 years ago and Zilean caught my eye. Imm proud to say ppl are happy with me being on their team. Wether it’s support or mid.

Actually Zilean actually had a pretty radical rework that completely changed the experience of laning against him. His Time Bomb used to be a point and click and was absolutely obnoxious because of it.

The only thing I want to see as an update is A: make is E give a small shield so he can benefit from more of the utility items or B: give his E the slow/speed up a grounding mechanic like his bombs the second E grounds the target.

"... like a YGO Card..." & "Anime Main character syndrom" made my day xD

Thank you for this video. Love from a zilean main!

"Movement speed never matter with a champion with a dash" Nothing is more satisfying than seeing a 99% slowed Lucian/Graves/Ezreal trying to dash/blink into safety. Slowing an enemy ADC is a death sentence in team fights.

I think you can make amazing combos with Zilean like speeding up galio for taunt or speeding a malphite for an ult if you then place a double bomb on your teammate it will stun all those he just cc'd it's very influential in the fight

hahaha, i call him "the invsible carry"

When I ca.e back to league Zillian was the only character that fit my playstyle instantly.

My favourite Zilean moments are when a team mate tower dives some poor sap, murders them and you see that tower shot is going to connect and take the last of their health on the way out, so you ult them and soak up the lovin' that flows afterwards.

Very very Well done Video!

I think you couldn't be more correct. I play a lot of Zilean and one thing I like is that I can consistently do my job well regardless of whether we win or lose but also if you think about that it means it is hard to male a noticeable impact on the match. I see it very much in who I pick I will casually play zilean but if I get annoyed I will go directly to playing thresh because he makes my actions feel very valuable., with thresh if I hit a good hook it makes all the difference. Also i think part of being someone who could consider Zilean one of my mains means I'm willing to relinquish my control on the match and just do a good job without being frustrated but some people - in ranked especially - struggle to understand that i could literally be using all of my shit to the best of my ability (without comms) and i just cant do anything of super significance. To address your point about his ultimate the problem with making the time that it takes for the ally to respawn shorter is that it wouldn't always be a good thing. examples: u a squishy zilean gets in a ganked but ur jungler counter ganks, u revive yourself , but if the time to respawn is short they just kill u again. A personal example is i will be getting attacked and go under tower, they dive me, i self revive, if the time was shorter i would simply die again, i need the tower to hit them. So as you'll realize after more examples is the shorter the revive time the less effective self reviving becomes but the more effective reviving a teammate becomes. Early game as zilean you really need to keep pace and stay alive, also towers are deadly and late game there are more teamfights and towers make less of an impact. Hence my proposed solution is that as you level up your ultimate the time the ally takes to revive is reduced, additionally making him a little less squishy might be nice.

I have not played LoL in ages, but the second I saw "Why No One Plays", I knew my main would be here. Yup. Also, oh man, I am playing again :(

I literally think that he's only unpopular because of how he looks LMFAO. It's crazy he looks like this in 2023

Self titled Zilean main here and just have one point. I think you hit on something really huge for me personally when it comes to the "Burden of Performance". When I was starting I league I gravitated towards support because that burden felt much lower, as it wasn't my job to carry 1v5 or create the game winning map pressure and seemed to high energy for what I enjoy, and Zilean pushes that even further for me in that he's a consistent decent champion with consistent decent effects I can rely on. I wish I could make crazier plays or cause some great swings for my team, and while zilean certainly can with 99% slowing the incoming assasin or reviving the carry, the potential is never so high as to be intimidating. He's a well designed champion who fits my niche, even if it might not fit everyone elses. Of all the 'Why No One Plays' videos, this is probably one that deserves the disclaimer the least since it isn't even a rag on the champion in terms of numbers or meta.

I like the idea of supporting my teammates in a unique way. And I much prefer playing games with my friends to playing with strangers. So Zilean does look interesting.

Just started maining Zil and he's so fun! Chronoshift is quite useful. I would love riot to give him an updated look. And his q is more of a skill shot now. I miss the old one.

an allchat conversation that is still my favorite zilean moment Enemy Lucien: Zil what's ur ult cd? Me: 20 seconds Enemy lucien: .... fuck you

Vars said if the revive was immediate it would be the best ability in the game, now it's just renata's W 😂 crazy game this is

I main Zilean and I believe the approach is everything I found as Zilean when you counter build the enemy your team is struggling against you become the carry as you said in the video it is must to be extremely tactical with everything and be aware you can't just your brain off and jump into something and expect it to work you can definitely play solo as long as you've played him a lot before idk how to explain that last part but it just works

@Vars thanks so much because of you I found my new favorite champ 😁 Zilean is so much fun. ❤ thanks

i play Zilean. For me it is one of the best support characters - i'm very comfortable with him - very balanced character as the video says - I have a 70% win rate with him.The trick is that you lane partner needs to know how to play along with Zilean as well. If your partner plays careless, then it's game over.

Vars: what keepe Zilian's ult balanced - is that it is not an instant revive. Riot a year later: so we got an insta revive for the support, but for her w. not ult. seems balanced to me!

Zilean is the only thing I miss from LoL. I haven't played a support in any other game that's given me as much joy as he did.

I know this is a year old but I gotta say I love the video style it was really cool! Im a m7 zilean and I an honestly say that most of the weakness u pointed out can be fixed by playing zilean top (I know it sounds crazy at first) but if u play zilean top and run dark harvest when he scales he turns into a walking nuke and tank (do to his ult) Zilean q w q is a great zoning ability (like u mentioned) making his high damage (from dh) absolutely insane. In the top he has a only a few glaring counters (Quinn, Kled, Voli, etc) but for the most part he can easily destroy other top laners (Fiora, Jax, Kayle, Cho gath, Garen, Darius, etc) Zileans range and e and ult is too powerful to pass up. If anyone already knows how to play zilean I recommend trying him top I think u would really love it!

While I have been playing lately support has been growing on me at an increasing rate. Between S+ games on thresh and lulu and my understanding of support macro I have felt like I can truly carry some games through sheer tactics. So when you say zilean is the “master tactitian who wants to plot out his moves”, I am hooked on the sound of it.

That's exactly what I like about him, he isn't made to win a fight, he's made to win the game. That and the fact that he can lock down a target as well as leona but from a distance (Q, E, W, Q, E to CC for a really long time, assuming you don't have everfrost), can revive an ally, making your team win a teamfight or at least deny the enemy some gold and maybe even a shutdown, and also he can zoom zoom through the map at lightning speed.

As a Zilean main since season 1 still hate the change on the Ult not scaling any longer with the w. Also i was a big fan of the much saver "q and run" playstyle with the old q ( maybe because point and click was easyer to hit but more because you have to stand still for the new q) also the old e gave 55% ms or slow and the points in it longered the time up to 6 seconds. This of ALL champs needs to be reverted. Riot just did him bad by giving all champs dashes... kinda nerfing him indirectly with that and also killing his movement option e-> run ->q-> dodge-> run-> e .. etc he was playin like a teemo but with abilities insteadd of aa´s. Also i would glaadly give back the cc on the q if it would fly just a notch faster because you can jsut run out of it with 3+ boots with close to every champ

Love this champion. Spamming your speed up and slows and 40% CDR makes people wanna rip their hair out trying to catch you.

I recall that there was this bronze game where I met this duo marksman botlane. I harassed them and killed them (with my team's adc) so much that when I matched up with them the next game they outright banned zilean.

1:51 are the ones with the faded text the ones with vgus and gameplay updates or the ones with yellowish text?

I agree with your points completely. As one of, i think, those people who feels what he brings is enough to a team(a stun/zoning q, a slow/speed up e, a revive ult) I do think its a shame more folks to pick 'em up. On the other hand, alot of folks aren't ready to face a zil in solo q and thats kinda neat

I like your videos. Wish you all the best :)

He’s my fav champ, but you make good points about he can be limiting. But as an older player with crap mechanics and not the best reflexes anymore, he’s perfect. If they did a rework would love to see his W changes so that it would allow you to cast any of you other spells, including your ultimate, twice in a row.

This my dude!! Nothing like hitting the enemy with an e, double bomb, and they have the ally DMG mark on them

I am currently maining Zilean in solo queue as a support. I actually wouldnt like to see a rework on him, because his kit is really fun as it is right now. The video is very informative and has some great points, but i dont agree on his R only working as a defensive tool. Think of towerdives in which your teammates know that they cannot die. What i also really like about him is, that 1 fed teammate can be enough to win the game. He goes aggressive, dies and you just revive him. All in all a great video.

Damn, your videos are pretty poggers ngl. Could you do Kled Kalista Rek sai Shaco Gnar or Lissandra next?

Personally, I'd really want to see a VGU similar to his Legends of Runeterra version, where they did a really nice job on giving him the look of a proper, matured, possibly a bit crazy time wizard. However, if that VGU was accompanied by a gameplay update, I'd miss his current iteration of abilities, except maybe his passive. From the lens of a support-focused Zilean main, he does lack healing and shielding capabilities, but I believe it's more than made up for in his toolbelt of gimmicks that he can use. An ADC, usually, can be caught out easily by assassins, but come late game when your speed-up cooldown is barely longer than how long it lasts, your ADC can make risky moves, dipping in and out of range with the comfort that a unconditional revive and stasis is available. Likewise, there's a very satisfying feeling in breaking the legs of your opponents, sticking to them like a red flag calling out to your team to come and secure the enemy who cannot run away. More so, other lanes benefit just as much from your engage/disengage potential, and seeing a 14/1 Aatrox fly towards their backline faster than they can flash is always a welcome sight. Movement speed does not directly make an ally stronger; it does not make them do more damage, nor does it make them tankier. But the ability to raise their uptime so much by providing them a safety net and the ability to reliably slip in and out of combat leads to a situation where it's possible that, indirectly, Zilean raises the damage output of that champ because he allows them to keep firing away and fighting at all times, rather than spending most of the fight just trying to get to a target. Especially on bruisers. What makes Mordekaiser's ultimate so scary is that a marksman or other high value target is now face-to-face with a juggernaut. Zilean allows *any* juggernaut to reach that point where they're so oppressively sticky that the enemy ADC or mage just can't get away no matter how hard they try.

I love Zilean. My favourite champion, and one of my mains. I'll happily take Zilean mid, top, support, and even bot! Haven't tried jungle, probably wouldn't try it.

You know what i love when you ult the Jax carry so he can go all in and get a Penta but then he runs away. Also i have turned games around all the way teem feeding and all but then we group up and i can save the best teammates and boom that's when we win the game

Zilean is fun in aram, but I can't imagine playing him in the laning phase, the bomb is unlikely to land unless you time it when they are in an animation, but zilean e is just so fun to use. I think Zilean should be paired with a teamfighting support to help makes his job easier and help exert pressure while the revive is ongoing, probably Karma because the aoe shield can keep the team safe when Zilean uses all his single target abilities to peel

“If Chrono shift was an instant revive that would be the most broken thing in the game” Renata Glasc: Allow me to introduce myself.

I picked up zilean mid for my team to pair with a hecarim and it’s really fun in a 5v5 setting where you can run around with your jungler and dive for free cause of his ult to get side lanes ahead. But I never play him in solo q as a Katarina yasuo main

Loves Zilean. So unique with interesting moves. Time Bomb is awesome to harass early game and perfect to setup ambush or stop an enemy from running away. My only grippe is with his passive. I don't see how it fits the character and it's rarely usefull, unless you have perfect communication with your allies

Ardent censor actually does work if you have the summon aery rune.

He always reminded me of a dota character which is why I play him a lot

I like what you said being a Zilean main. A good Zilean seeks to match the tempo of the game, tweak it to their advantage. Help people get out with no momentum, fountain dive almost when there is heavy momentum. He also is burdened sometimes with only being as good as his teammates being the more tactician he is in playstyle. He also has to deal with people wasting their summoners trying to get out when he R's them. Waste of summ, waste of his ultimate, and the person probably went back in late to try and get Zil R off but is too late. He is the movement speed enforcer on both teams Minus a master yi ult(it's ok you can double bomb after he alphas) or something like Kled Ult (You're screwed lol). Be very weary of a good zilean that has time on his side. Look to kill him pre6 and he is screwed since his passive makes him extremely dependent on experience.

i've mained zilean since 2013-14 my earliest 100 ranked games were zilean only with 75% winrate. let me tell you, you can definitely carry with zilean. if you guys remember pre-rework zilean, he was even more overpowered than he is now, i could literally solo carry myself to plat alone. what many players dont understand about zilean is his survivability. just with ult, flash and speed up, you have the ability to get out of ANY situation any time. you can also help out your team as well, but you can build the damage as well. he's an extremely versatile champion because he can simultaneously be a mage, tank and a support with an utility. the only reason people refused to play him in the past was because it has obnoxiously mana hungry spells so it sucks early, but you can solve this problem simply by getting mana regen items like grail for example, idk if it's still in the game but it was the bomb. plus get the max CDR and mid-late game you are always golden no matter what happens. if you're skilled you can win early as well, the reason pre-rework zilean was insanely op was because he had an auto lock ranged damage spell in lane so you could poke over and over risk free while managing mana, you could eventually kill anyone like that with ignite. now it's a skillshot but they added stun and lowered damage however this stun is very strong and not that hard to hit so he's still very strong, though not as OP in lane as he was it was also very fun to play and the most fun i've had playing league was maining zilean. unkillable annoying mage that giga supports the adc and gets kills himself while zooming around the entire map extremely fast has always been my kinda playstyle. the problem i had with other supports was that if you picked janna your team sucked, or if your adc sucked, you were screwed because you cant do anything yourself. well, with zilean you could do anything you wanted, revive yourself, get your own kills and in general be a pain in the ass for enemy team. with janna, enemy team gets fed, then some dumbfuck khazix or some other champ jumps on you and you are dead, you dont have damage you can't do anything

what if Q held charges? W could target ally so their abilities reset, E make abilities an AA that would hit target move into the future (say brand Q would hit you while effected by E it would instead disappear for 3 sec then reappear, so gives chance to dodge unless you decide to stay there/ get back in its way). R instant revival if targeted before hp=0, can revive dead teammates after 3 sec, holds 1/2/3 charges, can be activated if dead, can't target same champ for period of time.

I appreciate your pro's and con's method and flow to your video, as you never spent too much time bashing or praising at once, but rather ebbed and flowed to give all us zilean mains something to think about without feeling like we're Low IQ players for picking him. I always wondered why I never saw other zilean players, but now I know. Thanks for the awesome video, I am going to save this so I can refer back to it.

Also he can become a hard carry with the tight positioning and build. Most of his abilities don't scale with ap but his q does and can do some significant damage and cc the later the game goes.

zilean is my #1 sup pick. i love being able to do insane poke damage with my q and punish anyone that pushes up by slowing them, double time bombing them, and slowing them again. his revive has saved my and my teams ass more times than i can count and i absolutely LOVE champs that can just say "haha no" to dying every once in awhile. *kindred and zilean main intensifies*

Ok but can we all agree that zilean is the only champion who can level up a teammate who has been afk for a while and he can put his teammate's level back on the line as the game progresses over time?i mean,this make him extremelly usefull in random matches

Simply, the " Time " theme was wasted on him being a support mage whatever, could have been someone like Faceless Void from Dota 2, which has a really nice theme and identity and really popular too! Zilean is just so whatever that no one plays lol

My KDA for Zillean is about 2/4/12 and, I thoroughly enjoy playing him

Learning Zilean in the support role. It’s super fun so far with Revelry lol

Amazing video, as always. Bump comment!

zilean is like twisted fate his kit is simple but yet has so much impact the only rework he needs is on his visuals i mean he looks like a old man i know zoe looks like a child but at least her hair has some spacey colors to it, it really shows that shes an aspect but everything else its good

One time I jungled as zilean and had the sickest first drag steal imaginable with my últ. broke their mental , they ff’d.

I like ally Zilean supports. I won a 4v5 the last time I had a Zilean on my team while I played Darius. I did get fed off Aatrox and Viego in lane, but I was really great at engaging onto the enemy team mid-late game with Zilean's speed boost, letting my Kat and Kaisa do a ton of work while I soak up cc and damage with Gargoyles + Steraks. Zilean's ult came in handy during some team fights, I even revived to ult half the enemy team. Definitely one of my favorite matches this season. Can't say I like facing a good Zilean tho xD

if you take aery you can build ardent and this is awesome! speed+shield+attackspeed=gg

I'll always remember the groaning and the flaming I've received when I picked Zilean when we played "All for one". It was a slaughter, all the bombs stun if doubled up, even if you didn't cast the first or second one. The Garen team suffered, a lot. Everyone had a blast, nobody said sorry about the flaming and groaning. Funny fact, even some Zileans will try to run instead of dying when ulted.

Zilean for me is a pocket pick into some artillery mage supports like Lux for example. Plus, he's also honestly really fun for me to play with one of my friends and in randoms. His ressurect is what appeals to me now. It's literally so fun to rez your teammate and watch the enemy tilt over how many ressurects you hit. Hell, it actually happened to me one game. An enemy Kai'sa got mad at all the resurrects I hit and it was honestly really fun. Plus, slinging his bombs for stuns and poke damage is fun for me. Zilean feels like Ziggs to me but if Ziggs had more synergy and utility. And honestly, Zilean is overall really fun and I feel like I should play him more than I do. He's so fun and helps so much on the team.

Zilean definitely needs visual update, along with voicelines. Old man with blue bears and hair, T-posing and flying around with a cucoo clock (who even thought it is fine?) and all of that made mostly of squares just screams 'I'm from the times long forgotten and for good reasons'. When it comes to abilities - they are mostly fine, although a bit more flashyness wouldn't hurt to make him look more appealing, but this comes with a visual update. But I would definitely entirely change what his Q does. The effect (dmg + dmg and stun if you hit the same target) is very fine, but it doesn't make any sense that a freakin chronomancer throws mechanical time bombs out of nowhere like a Kobe. If they would make him to look like in Legends of Runeterra - big yes, that's how he should be like

Im not a zilean main but he is one of my most played i personally feel like a 1 vs 9 bomber jet. Pressing e on my self throwing double bombs and runnung again. On the other side he just feels crazy with juggernauts since their only weaknesses are being immobile and low range. I had so much fun speeding up Darius playing with a high spellhaste build this season. It was basically a permanent Speed up stun chain making my darius run all over them.

As a 2.5 million mastery Zilean player I love Zilean’s team fight control play. 3 points in Q then max speed. Just feel like full 1 ap scaling on bombs would be perfect and change the interaction of the passive. A passive that CC’s yourself is no bueno

He's actually a pretty well rounded mage like orianna if you build ap runes and ap items since unlike other enchanters he can use everything on himself (speed, revive)

Tristana jumps in, ALT+ E, you rush in, you exhaust , double q , kill the second one or let Tristana jump out again. Repeat until lvl 6 , then add in an R on Tristana.

As a zilean main. I think there are two points that weren't too good. 1) movement speed is crucial. The 99% slow he has is absolutely crippling. Even when someone has a dash. 2) his damage output is insanely high and the 1.5 second stun gives him such huge potential.

I decided to main Zilean in the early seasons because he had double bomb stun. His reworked passive is useful to snowball harder when ahead. Also biggest troll champ imo. Zilean support for life. His ultimate, although not an instant revive is more impactful when used on people dying in ground ahhoe abilities since that's 3 less seconds of damage. Summon Aery is the rune that I use because the shield procs item effects.

FYI, "irregardless" is not a word, and even if it were, it would be inherently meaningless. "Regardless" is what you're looking for.

I think there's also the other factor not mentioned; in order to use his ult (arguably the most powerful part of his kit), the person you're casting it on HAS to die in order for it to not be wasted - thing is people's natural reaction to getting chunked is to GTFO of there through any means possible which often overrides the fact that letting themselves get killed can often be the correct play in order to come back with more HP and mana without having to base (especially as the little hourglasses can get lost in the flashy clusterduck of a teamfight). Even when I play with my friends over discord, telling my ADC to get themselves killed often doesn't load in fast enough for them to not flash away first. As such, it's often a Zilean's perrogative to use it in a reactionary manner to low HP rather than proactively to protect targets - in which case lag, fps issues, unexpected CC or just slow reactions can all render it a useless ability, meanwhile the enemy enchanter could use a shield, HP boost or AoE CC to proactively win the fight.

Zilean main here, currently somewhere around 800 hours on the champ. I'm no expert, but I have a few thoughts. You make mostly good points here, but I think you're selling Zilean's range of effectiveness short. Just because his abilities are unconventional doesn't mean they're not versatile. His bombs may seem like a simple cc+damage combo, but they can be used for a lot more- zoning out enemies who are trying to chase, starting baron/dragon steals by stunning any enemies within melee range of it through the wall, even vision, which I find especially useful at lvl 1 while checking for invades. People assume Zilean turns teamfights into 6v5s, but that's not REALLY what he does. It's more like he turns even trades in his team's favor. You'll find more effective use of his ultimate in situations where only 2-3 people from each team are involved, especially because his kit is so good at locking down fleeing enemies while you wait for the revive to go through. Did you know that at rank 5, his E is a 99% slow? Yeah, seriously. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten into a skirmish with some random people in bot lane with my adc, killed one of them, had my adc killed, then, when the other one tried to flee, plopped a NINETY-NINE PERCENT SLOW on them, and while they painfully tried to dash or slog away, my ADC came back and slaughtered them. Last thing- It's very true what you say about the personality of League players. I picked up Zilean pretty early on in my career after trying out a lot of enchanter supports, and the thing that I think has drawn me to him over the years IS his ability to make plays on his own. I get picks on enemy junglers, top laners, you name it on this stupid old man usually once or twice a game, assuming it doesn't end at 20. But, I guess those are fringe cases. What I can tell you is that it happens a lot more than when I play something like Soraka, (even my patented murderfuck soraka build don't @me) which gives him the option to take care of things himself if he needs to, while still being a support through and through. We supports are a strange breed, but there's something magical about making the difference on a macro level that I just can't get playing an assassin.