@albableat, If you play mages properly, there's no need for Satchel Charge early. It's a fairly unreliable escape mechanism to be honest, and the only use I ever have for it is to jump over walls for quick escapes (when being chased), or to displace my enemies when my allies are facing them in combat. Alot of times, I've allowed an enemy to close the gap on me by mistake, because of the way Satchel Charge is dependednt on the direction of the player(s) on top of it. (ie: If I'm on the Purple Team, and I place my W in front of me, and I'm running towards my home base, Satchel Charge will launch me 1 of 3 ways, depending on where I'm standing: 1. If in front of the box (Facing my home base), I'll be knocked towards my base. 2. If on top of the box, I'm launched at random. 3. If behind the box (Farthest away from my base), I'm knocked backwards, into a terrible position. Add this unreliability on top of a long cooldown, and you get a gimmicky escape mechanism that will only save you from certain death half the time or less. Since I'm almost always in mid with Ziggs, I never need it early. I know how to play smart, so I never need his Gimmicky escape until mid to late game, where it's more useful.

@shatfaced, I refuse to take anything you say seriously, due to the fact that you've provided absolutely nothing to back up your comment. I always go with my above build, and I do just fine with it, rarely ever having as many deaths as kills. Until you can provide any kind of argument as to why you think my items and such are "fail", I'll disregard your remarks as trolling. Also, learn to spell please. I'm amazed you have a guide on here when your literature skills are that of a first-grader's. And yet you have the audacity to insult my build when you can't even spell. How sad.