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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)
Zilean Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Fizz
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Introduction

About Me
Hi, I'm playing League of Legend since Season 4 begins on SEA server , currently Diamond 5 . I didn't play Zilean much before Season 6 started .
About Zilean

Runes




Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction: Helps you to solve the cooldown problem that will be faced by
Zilean, because his core items don't have much cooddown reduction.
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: Helps your bombs do more damage. There is no other viable options. Some people might take mana regeneration, but if you are on the right team – then you will be given blue by your jungler so there is no need for you to run anything but these marks.
Greater Seal of Scaling Health: Sealing health is a good choice for ap mages due to low health of mages when late game.
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: The flat AP runes early on help Zilean’s bombs to actually do damage, as a base damage of 90 is pretty sub par. They also help to deal damage to kill creeps, as Zilean will probably be pushed into his own tower early on when he can’t harass nor clear waves very quickly.
Items
Item Sequence

Sorcerer's Shoes
1100

Timeworn Frost Queen's Claim
2200

Seraph's Embrace
2900

Rabadon's Deathcap
3500

Void Staff
3000

Luden's Tempest
3200
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Magic penetration = Damage. Get it will give you insane damage early and mid game. Due to different playstyle, you can also buy ![]() |
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This item is a MUST. It gives you lots of gold from the start of the game . Active it and slow enemy down, it is very good for ![]() |
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Plenty of damage and mana and shield. |
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Damage, damage and damage.Main damage item for mages. |
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End game items. MUST buy when enemy started to stack magic resist. . |
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Movement speed and damage. Can be replaced by ![]() |
time in a Bottle

STATIC COOLDOWN:120
Zilean generates 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6 / 12 experience every 5 seconds, which does not advance his own level. When he has enough to level up an allied champion and is out of combat, he can right-click them to to initiate a 1 second channel, after which he grants them enough experience to finish their level and receiving the same amount. If the channel is interrupted, Time in a Bottle goes on cooldown for 2 seconds. Time in the Bottle starts the game on cooldown.
Time Bomb

COST: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 MANACOOLDOWN: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8
ACTIVE: Zilean throws a ticking time bomb to the target location that detonates after 3 seconds, dealing magic damage to all surrounding enemies.
MAGIC DAMAGE: 75 / 115 / 165 / 230 / 300 (+ 90% AP)
If a unit is near a Time Bomb as it lands or has already landed, they pick it up and become the holder, causing it to detonate at their location at the end of its duration.
If a bomb holder picks up another Time Bomb, the first bomb immediately detonates and briefly stuns all affected enemies.
STUN DURATION: 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5
Rewind

COST: 35 MANA COOLDOWN: 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6
ACTIVE: Zilean reduces


Time warp

COST: 50 MANA COOLDOWN: 15
ACTIVE: Zilean bends time around the target champion, Slow icon slowing them if they are an enemy or granting them bonus movement speed if they are an ally for 2.5 seconds.
MOVEMENT SPEED MODIFIER: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 99%
Chronoshift

COST: 125 / 150 / 175 MANA COOLDOWN: 120 / 90 / 60
ACTIVE:

HEALTH REGAINED: 600 / 850 / 1100 (+ 200% AP)
Flash

Flash is too valuable a summoner skill to pass up on pretty much any character I can think of right now except for

Ignite
Pros
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+ Good ultimate + Strong laner + High mobility + AoE crowd control |
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Cons
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- Mana problem - Low damnage late game - Wise enemy can outsmart his ultimate |
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Farming
It is very hard to farm very well early on as

General Playstyle
As stated above, Zilean is an AP carry hybrid. After you use your QWQ combo, you should play passively staying out of range of dangerous enemies until your bomb cooldowns are back up. His Time Warp is useful for speeding up ADC or bruisers to pick someone out of position off and fling them to your team, netting an easy kill.
Positioning
As



You want to preform a ‘bomb combo’ then back out of the fight and wait for your cooldowns to respawn (it’s not worth standing in range and just auto attacking the enemy champions) – best to just re-position to a safe spot and then go back in, for another bomb combo.
Tips and tricks
You can cast your bombs on someone who engage like


One risky trick on Zilean is to bait the enemy into a teamfight by having all four of them waiting in an unwarded brush. You can pretend to get caught, and use your ultimate on yourself right as you reach the brush full of your teammates. If they have spent everything on you, they will be sorely out of position and have nothing to fight your team with.
In team fights, you should be hiding in the back and laying bombs on either squishy carries in range of you (that can’t kill you easily – you shouldn't be Time Warping yourself ahead to go and bomb an Annie that can combo you for her teammates to clean you up easily) or someone on your team in the melee lines that can burst your bombs on their squishies, like
Riven.
Zilean mechanic in team fight:


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