New Zilean, kinda fun

At first, I didn't know how I felt about it. I thought Zil supp was a bit more tedious now than he use to be. Then I thought I was probably just playing him wrong (the older meta to Zil). I think, yeah.. Pretty much.

I thought about the kit changes.. Stun, Uber Slow, Revive... Then I just thought... Why do I honestly need AP anymore? Revive, that's about it, and probably not THAT much to get the general usefulness of it.

TL:DR: I just started building Zil with more survivability and focus on simply having a guy slowed or stunned. It seems to work better.

I'm sure my build for it could use a lot of improvement (please feel free to make suggestions), but it's what I've been currently playing with and it's been working fairly well, so far.

Abilities: Max Q first, E second, and W last (R defaults as priority,6 that's just a given with most champs).

Gear: Start: Spell Thief (keep at lvl1 and eventually sell), 2 potions, 1 ward From there... Go.... Sightstone (switch out trinket)-> CDR boots-> Ice Gaunts-> Banner-> Zhonya's-> Banshee's

It's not much AP, but you don't need a whole lot to ult someone to a good chunk of HP. Ice Gaunts simply for a follow up slow on a target and mostly for the AR. Rushing the item gives you a pretty significant damage boost enough that you and your ADC can establish dominance in your lane. Above all, you still have 35CDR, (and of course: 210AP, 95MR (20 that you share), 110AR, 1050HP).

Above all, I really think Survivability is the new key to Zilean's changes... Time Bomb use to just give us some power followed by inevitably falling off damage horribly, now it stuns, which means Zil now has Utility (bomb), Utility (slow/fast), Utility(revive).

In conclusion, be annoying, rack up assists, and laugh when you can no longer simply be erased by everything.