Zilean kit synergy idea, should help solo lane Zilean.

YOU BEEN WARNED·6/25/2015, 9:51:05 AM·101 votes·2,860 views

You see how Orianna's W is a haste/slow with damage? And her E is a shield with damage as well? The abilities transition more strongly towards their supportive attributes lategame. Zilean's kit should provide similar strength to empower his solo laning capability.

The idea:

Zilean can now cast E [ Time warp ] on bombs laid on the ground : The bomb is rooted, so no minion or champion can carry it. The radius of explosion is increased by a value (35%?) The bomb explodes 1 second later.

Other: Time Warp SFX is applied when cast on a bomb, the bomb is visually altered when said combo occurs.

This way Zilean has access to safe waveclear and clever, telegraphed harass that is gated by mana.

18 Comments

Wheatloaf6/25/2015, 12:58:21 PM22 votes

That's... Is actually a really interesting idea. Would be neat if they at least considered something similar.

Yura May Zing6/25/2015, 6:37:20 PM5 votes

Or just make it to where if he casts E on a bomb. It explodes immediately. This way, you can slow an enemy down and cause the bomb on them to erupt. or to clear a minion wave faster.

A Miss Fortune6/25/2015, 3:36:49 PM5 votes

It feels weird how Riot tries to put Zilean as a Support, yet he seems like the type of AP Carry you would want to be fed. High damage AoE bombs with a stun (if you're a Zilean main and can hit them and not on the minions), a huge slow and movement speed buff, a free level 6 Guardian's Angel. He seems like he was designed to be a safe Mid laner like Lux that poke their opponents down before an all-in whereas Lux would followed up with a snare and ult, Zilean would follow up with his stun and two bombs on the same person.

Zilean's passive is so useless and random though, I don't think anything else needs to be looked at really aside from his passive. You get level 2 in lane a few seconds before the enemy is all it really does. I see good potential for a quick level 2 all-in, since Zilean doesn't need much besides his bombs and resets, but if you're against someone like Xerath, Lux, Zed, Leblanc, etc who are really safe people to lane with then it's not going to be extremely easy.

I think Zilean's passive should focus on giving him more mana for every time he hits a stun and also make him able to achieve 50% CDR from 40% CDR at max. Not acutally GIVE him the free CDR, but allow it to happen. Since you can't get over 40% CDR, it should let him be able to get 50% if he builds correctly. That way he can spam and spam his bombs so he doesn't fall off so hard as the game progresses if he gets behind.

soliznoel6/25/2015, 6:35:03 PM4 votes

The thing is solo lane zilean is toxic as shit imo, but this is an intresting idea

Saianna6/25/2015, 1:09:22 PM4 votes

And what if it could act like a landmine for 10-20-30s?

Budupops6/25/2015, 5:09:05 PM2 votes

zilean is one of the best mages mid right now tho, dont think he needs buffs

cqrrnbr1016/26/2015, 9:43:23 AM2 votes

Or why not have it follow the second bomb? If you time warp a ground bomb, shouldn't it move into the future ? Besides when Zilean throws a bomb, the enemy should respect it and stay away until his CDs are down, Zilean needs a real way to defend himself.

ZPIN2WIN6/26/2015, 9:38:14 AM2 votes

Why not let this work on bombed minions for the same effect too? It's really annoying when minions randomly pick up the bomb and shift the explosion elsewhere.

TheRakkun6/26/2015, 11:42:28 PM1 votes

IDK I played against a Zilean mid and he was kind of oppressive with his poke (I won though) you have to be careful or he'll just become how he was before.

Raith Alghul6/26/2015, 8:46:41 AM1 votes

I like it, have my upvote

canpan146/25/2015, 12:55:02 PM1 votes

I like it. How about he can do similar when a bomb is on an enemy/ally?