I've been insta kicked from 4 lobbies in TB now before even getting a chance to react, and my time between lobbies as been 20 minutes. So I can't play Zilean mid now I guess. Kinda weird consdering I faced a Braum top two games ago.
The NA meta is just a copy paste of whatever people see happening in the LCS MOST of the time. If Bjergerking started playing Zil mid again, everyone will. If Balls started playing Sona top, everyone else would pick it up to. But pubs have the mentality of "If it lost, it doesn't work at all" Imagine trying to queue for veigar support or corki mid a year ago. Because it wasn't a thing until it showed up in the LCS and that made people go "Ohhhhhhh... i guess you CAN do that"
For the reasons mentioned above, Zil has been jumbled around a bit and isn't the face roller he used to be because it takes skill to play him now with less reward, and also his passive goes to waste when hes in a solo lane. But all it takes is pro player to make it popular and everyone else will jump of the sheep wagon.
Since they reworked him, made his bombs less reliable while simultaneously making them do significantly less damage
He has like 3 waves of tiny buffs slated on the PBE, though. Hopefully he goes from "This champion is super fun, too bad I'll probably lose if I play him" to "This champion is super fun, and viable in the right hands!"
his midlane is still awesome, even better than before since you can lay bombs in the middle of a wave to 1 shot.
But just wait on some of the pbe buffs for him, he'll be even stronger.
braum can go top. comment otherwise irrelevant. Mid lane Zilean is less benefit to a team, than a support zilean (his passive exp boost no longer reaches other lanes)
I find that Team Builder captains are really really picky these days. Could just be on the higher elo side of the pool, but I find it to be basically impossible to use the mode to test different champions unless they're in the competitive meta.
This isn't just true for the obviously hated champions, or for off meta picks. It's also hard for me to find games with stuff like ADC Kog'maw or Syndra mid.
Overall, the community has been a big disappointment for me on team builder. I was hoping the mode could be used for exploring nontraditional picks and strategies but it seems nobody wants to do that.
passive nerfed. his passive was pretty much a free lane win in standard lane for every lane
