Zilean no more Perma Haste/Slow??

CS3Narutoi·2/25/2015, 6:44:11 AM·1 votes·1,037 views

Zilean before his recent changes was able to permanently slow or haste a champion, or haste/slow up to two champions at a time with only a short interval where the effects wore off.

His W at rank 5 is 6 sec cooldown, which with 40% CDR brings it to 3.6 secs. Old Time Warp at rank 5 hasted/slowed by 5.5 secs.

This allowed Zilean to perma Haste/Slow a champion. Zilean could also have chose to haste/slow two champions, with only about 2 secs downtime in between. (5.5 - 3.6 = 1.9)

New Time Warp is a 99% movement speed buff or haste. This is one of the strongest speed modifiers in the game, being up there with Thresh, and with Rammus somewhere. It lasts for 2.5 seconds.

Zilean can no longer perma Haste/Slow a target, and neither can he keep on hasting/slowing two targets simultaneously.

In my opinion, I think the ability to perma haste/slow a target was a pretty cool part of Zilean's identity. No other champion in the game could have done that. Though I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise that it might be gone considering it is a point-click CC ability. And although the duration has been reduced, the potency of the effect has been increased to 99%. So I guess the net change might not be much of a difference in terms of distance coverage, or, even a buff.

But still, I kinda miss that permanent aspect on one of his spells... time, longest time...yeah.

So what are your thoughts, everyone??

2 Comments

Yulen Xoshxius2/25/2015, 6:47:49 AM1 votes

It sounds cooler before the change. nasus already has a point and click mega slow, though not as extreme.

Nyaruko Chan2/25/2015, 7:55:05 AM1 votes

I played around with Zilean on the PBE and you most definitely can perma slow somebody. Zilean is a monster right now. Not only can you slow them by 99% but you can also stack two bombs on them and stun them for around 1.5 seconds. Meaning that by the time they are unstunned you can just double slow them again and double bomb them again. Hes actually really strong. Just messing around with him against bots and going full ap those bombs can 100 to 0 somebody so fast. They do insane amounts of damage. I