Zilean Talk

Zilean can be fun and rewarding to play as, but a problem with him is Rewind feels like you are down a spell because of the nature of the spell and he has a very lack luster feeling passive while playing as Zilean. Feel free to list your own thoughts and opinions of, key word here, small changes you would like to see for Zilean; which will end up leaving him as the same champion that we all know, love, and hate. One thing I want to deal with, due to his extremely inconsistent Time Bomb landing, is grant Zilean some more damage; because right now even for a utility mage his damage to champions is a little too low in the grand scheme of the entire game.

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Heightened Learning (Passive): Zilean gains 10% bonus experience and 5% bonus experience for nearby ally champions.

Additionally, whenever Zilean lands one of his bombs on an enemy champion he stores up 3 bonus Ability Power. Upon reaching level 18 Zilean will gain this bonus Ability Power that he stored up and can no longer store up anymore.

Rewind / Time Strike (W): Cooldown: 14/12/10/8/6 seconds; Cost: 35~/~40/45/50/55/60 Mana; Range: 700 units Rewind: Using this ability on Zilean will cause Zilean to reduce Time Bomb's and Time Warp's cooldowns by 10 seconds.

Time Strike: Zilean sends out powerful time magic from all his currently active bombs' location to deal 80/120/160/200/240(+60%AP) magic damage to all enemies struck, the same enemy cannot take damage from multiple Time Strikes at the same time.

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So some clarifications here: The passive change is I made it more localized to Zilean and less aura power to give it a level 18 power. So now while level from 1 to 17 you store up AP whenever a bomb lands on an enemy champion (his bombs are Time Bomb, Time Warp, and Chronoshift, but you cannot cast his ultimate on an enemy champion obviously, so only Q and E can trigger this effect). Between levels 1 to 17 you do not get this ability power, and then when you reach level 18 you get the ability power permanently and of course the stacking effect no longer applies so it allows Zilean to have a level 18 passive without snowballing the game with a bunch of extra AP early to mid game.

Rewind is basically the same, but you need to use it differently as in cast the spell on yourself or simply self-cast the spell and then Rewind will be used; everything here is the same otherwise. I added a new spell as a pick and choose spell which allows more interesting choices for Zilean and decide if he wants to double down and use Q and E twice or have a more reliable damage through a line skill shot which can be significant AoE (damage does not overlap) with multiple line skill shots if you have multiple bombs in play (again bombs are Time Bomb, Time Warp, and Chronoshift). So the second portion is used similar to Lulu's Q just does not come from Zilean ever unless he bombs himself, so it is used exactly like a line skill shot. Also two different mana costs; cooldown is shared of course; Rewind is the same 35 Mana, while my new Time Strike is 40/45/50/55/60 Mana.

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ANOTHER IDEA:

Rewind (Passive): Static Cooldown: 14/12/10/8/6 seconds; Passive Ranks: @levels 1/5/9/13/17 Zilean's next basic ability will lower his other basic abilities' cooldowns by 10 seconds, does not affect Chronoshift.

Changing Time (W): Cooldown: 12 seconds; Cost: 100 Mana; Range: 800 units Zilean launches time magic in the target direction based on his currently active bombs' locations to deal 80/120/160/200/240(+60%AP) magic damage to struck enemies and heal 60/90/120/150/180(+40%AP) health to struck allies, the damage and heal cannot overlap on the same unit.

Changing Time cannot be cast if there are currently no active bombs.