Zilean Build Guides, Runes and Items

Zilean The Chronokeeper

Find the best Zilean build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.8. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Zilean build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Zilean's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Zilean Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Zilean we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Zilean, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Zilean this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.8. However, if you are a new Zilean player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Zilean!

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Patch 14.8: 28,833 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Sorcery

Domination

Second Best

50%

Win Rate 24% Pickrate

Sorcery

Inspiration

Third Best

52%

Win Rate 16% Pickrate

Resolve

Sorcery

Second Best

51%

Win Rate 42% Pickrate

Third Best

51%

Win Rate 14% Pickrate

Second Best

50%

Win Rate 4% Pickrate

Third Best

50%

Win Rate 1% Pickrate

Second Best

58%

Win Rate 3% Pickrate

Third Best

54%

Win Rate 2% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Second Best

47%

Win Rate 7% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Third Best

55%

Win Rate 6% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Our Stats Powered By

Patch 14.8: 28,833 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Sorcery

Inspiration

Second Best

58%

Win Rate 22% Pickrate

Sorcery

Domination

Third Best

54%

Win Rate 5% Pickrate

Resolve

Sorcery

Second Best

50%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

Third Best

43%

Win Rate 3% Pickrate

Second Best

54%

Win Rate 22% Pickrate

Third Best

38%

Win Rate 5% Pickrate

Second Best

65%

Win Rate 4% Pickrate

Third Best

64%

Win Rate 3% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Second Best

44%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Third Best

56%

Win Rate 6% Pickrate

Passive Ability

Zilean Counters

Learn Zilean's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Zilean guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!

This counter data is for Zilean SUPPORT in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Zilean. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

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CR is Counter Rating, which is a combination of multiple counter factors. Counters shown are for Zilean Zilean SUPPORT

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Zilean Skins

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Find Zilean's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Zilean skins and chromas on Zilean's skins page.

Skin Release Wishlist Popularity Cost

Winterblessed Zilean

December 8, 2022

+ Wishlist

1350

Sugar Rush Zilean

December 17, 2019

+ Wishlist

1350

Blood Moon Zilean

May 11, 2015

+ Wishlist

975

Time Machine Zilean

Legacy

April 12, 2011

Wishlist

520

Shurima Desert Zilean

September 8, 2010

+ Wishlist

975

Groovy Zilean

July 27, 2010

+ Wishlist

520

Old Saint Zilean

Special Events

December 23, 2009

+ Wishlist

520

Classic Zilean

Original

Wishlist

Zilean's Abilities

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Time in a Bottle Zilean's Passive

Self

Zilean bottles 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6 / 12 experience every 5 seconds. When he has enough experience stored to finish an ally's level, he can right-click them to give both himself and his ally the amount stored.

Time in a Bottle cannot be used in combat.

Time Bomb Zilean's Q Ability

900

60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8

Zilean tosses a time-delayed bomb that sticks to the first unit which comes within a small area around it. After 3 seconds it detonates, dealing 75 / 115 / 165 / 230 / 300 (+90% of ability power) magic damage.

Placing a second bomb on a unit that already has one detonates the first bomb immediately and stuns enemies in the blast for 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5 seconds.

Rewind Zilean's W Ability

Self

14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6

Zilean turns time, reducing his other basic ability cooldowns by 10 seconds.

Time Warp Zilean's E Ability

550

Zilean grants an allied champion 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 99% movement speed or slows an enemy champion for the same amount for 2.5 seconds.

Chronoshift Zilean's Ultimate (R) Ability

900

125 / 150 / 175 / 175 / 175

120 / 90 / 60 / 60 / 60

Zilean grants a protective time rune to an allied champion for 5 seconds. If the target would die, the rune rewinds their timeline, putting them into Stasis for 3 seconds, then reviving them and restoring 600 / 850 / 1100 (+200% of ability power) health.

Questions About Zilean

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Latest Questions

Zilean & Fountain of Life Rune

Asked by ultrarafasam on September 18, 2018

So, I'm new to LOL by a large margin,I guess,and I following various builds. One that catches my attention is one with [[Fountain of Life]]. The rune mentions that when you impair a champion' movement,any ally that attacks that champion heals. I...

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Can you help me out with Zilean?

Asked by Sr for my bad sp on May 8, 2017

So I'm new to the game and I like to play support because of my personality.I'm trying to rank up and my main sp champion is Zilean.Is he a viable champion for rank?Can you give me tips for playing him or any tip on playing sp overall.I'm really...

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Zilean's Time Bomb Stun Problem

Asked by granzteel on November 24, 2016

The most annoying thing that could happen when using Zilean is when you quickly Q>W>Q at *almost* the same ground/champion they do not stick to the same unit/champion. Do I just need more practice or something is really off with the time...

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Feeling difficult to deal damage to mages who build RoA, what should I do?

Asked by kisred on May 11, 2016

Situation: In the early-mid game, I built Morellonomicon, opponent built RoA. Problem: Feeling difficult to deal damage to opponents who build RoA. As they have higher effective health after building RoA, I feel like 'my abilities do not...

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Does Morde's ult stop Zileans Revive?

Asked by Showda on February 15, 2014

Alright, so i was just in a game of ARAM, and i was trying to taunt their morde to dive me. My ult was up, i saw the hourglasses rotate around me, but he ulted me and i still died. So my question is, does mordekaisers ult stop mine because of the...

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Zilean, Time Master or something like that

Asked by Tweedle on May 30, 2013

I've recently started using Zilean since he's free this week. My reason for doing so is that I've seen players say that Zilean is a terrible champ and I've actually googled about him and the results from what I've seen say that he sucks. . after...

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Zilean Viable?

Asked by LiLStormcloaK on January 7, 2013

Personally, I have always like [[zilean]] as a champion. And now that [[tear of the goddess]] is cheaper, I figure that his mana issues will be solved, yet I never seem to see any [[zilean]]s...

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Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)

Time Bomb (Q)

Rewind (W)

Time Warp (E)

Chronoshift (R)

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Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)

Time Bomb (Q)

Rewind (W)

Time Warp (E)

Chronoshift (R)

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Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)

Time Bomb (Q)

Rewind (W)

Time Warp (E)

Chronoshift (R)

Zilean's Runes

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Zilean's Starters

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Zilean's Core Items

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Zilean's Luxury Items

Zilean's Ability Order

Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)

Time Bomb (Q)

Rewind (W)

Time Warp (E)

Chronoshift (R)

Second Best

Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)

Time Bomb (Q)

Rewind (W)

Time Warp (E)