When's the last time Zilean got a skin???

Jivewolf··9 votes·1,267 views

Zilean 1 trick, don't have that many cool skins, stuck in plat, feelsbadman :(

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1374345 votes

The problem is Zil is a difficult champion to think of a good cohesive skin for. He has a huge clock on his back, which has to be accounted for in the model in a logical way, and all but one of his skills (his Q) are just instant and in most cases barely noticeable and short lived particle effects.

With his Q there are many great ideas you can dream up, but then the issue becomes what are going to make the giant lump on his back and what exactly would you do for the other spells.

CobaltTheMadMage4 votes

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The problem is Zil is a difficult champion to think of a good cohesive skin for. He has a huge clock on his back, which has to be accounted for in the model in a logical way, and all but one of his skills (his Q) are just instant and in most cases barely noticeable and short lived particle effects.

With his Q there are many great ideas you can dream up, but then the issue becomes what are going to make the giant lump on his back and what exactly would you do for the other spells.

Lich Zilean?

Machine on his back is a giant hextech/chemtech life support machine sustaining the zombie-like Zilean?

rcrc05264 votes

They should make a skin for ekko and zil together. Or make a ekko zil and vice versa

CobaltTheMadMage4 votes

I think he just needs a full VGU.

And maybe a Piltovan/clockwork/steampunk skin.

Oleandervine3 votes

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I think he just needs a full VGU.

And maybe a Piltovan/clockwork/steampunk skin.

Yes so much. Zilean is one of the OG champs, named after one of Riot's creators. He should definitely have been VGU'd by now. His model is atrocious.

1374343 votes

He just needs a visual update. His gameplay is fine after the mini update they gave him a year or two ago.

Gi Abadon3 votes

Looks at Illaoi and Yorick and sighs

God Fist Sett3 votes

In 2015. So 2 years ago

ForgottenLuck3 votes

I mean, I agree as a fellow Zil main but blood moon came out 2 years ago and its still quite decent, we can't really say the same for other champs no?

draecina3 votes

Personally I don't find blood moon that great...I mean it's a cool looking skin and all but what does it actually have to do with zilean? I mean a werewolf? Just why? It's almost as random as infernal Diana. At least Diana got her awesome blood moon skin finally though

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

Werewolf? What does bloodmoon have to do with werewolfs? ô.o What are you talking about. xD

draecina2 votes

Not sure why you downvoted me. If you read my comment I was talking about the blood moon Zilean splash art, where he looks like a werewolf.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

I am not the one who downvoted you, but nice to see that you downvoted me just for asking a question. ^^

Anyway: Bloodmoon doesn't have any relation to werewolfs. The skin line is representing a festival in Ionia, which got directly inspired by japanese folklore (mostly spirits, called Yokai). He is wearing something that is pretty similar to an oni mask. Oni are japanese demons.

I think it was meant as showing a demonic version of Zilean and his time manipulating powers.

draecina1 votes

I didn't downvote you either. :p The whole point of my post was that the argument of Zilean getting the blood moon skin a couple years ago doesn't mean anything. Just like the infernal Diana skin, it doesn't really seem to fit. Zilean needs a new skin that actually fits him, like how Diana got her blood moon skin after people begged for it.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

Any suggestions what this skin should be that "fits" him? I think the bloodmoon actually kinda does.

Skins are mostly an alternative version of the champion, like how they could have turned out in another dimension. Bloodmoon Zilean is one possibility, he isn't the time mage we know about, but a demon with time manipulating powers. That is a plausible alternative version of him.

So it seems I don't really understand what you mean. What would fit him in your opinion?

draecina1 votes

You don't understand what I mean? It's literally my opinion lol. There's no need to research to prove me wrong. I never said it was a fact that it's not a good skin for him. You like it, I don't, and I know other people who don't either. As for a new skin idea, there's already tons out there, one of them being djinn/genie zilean.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

You said that the bloodmoon skin doesn't fit him because he would be a werewolf there, I just pointed out that he isn't. And you said that this design doesn't have anything to do with Zilean.

I can't really see how a djinn or genie is more related to Zilean, that's why I don't understand the argument. You say that the bloodmoon skin doesn't have anything to do with the Zilean we know and then when I ask for a suggestion, you call a skin which.... has the same level of not being related to him like the one you are criticizing for it.

And I was showing that the skin is not that random as you might think....

draecina1 votes

Alright, so he's not a werewolf, but he looks like one in the splash. The mask, the fingers, the hair, all look like a werewolf. Even though it's not a werewolf, the skin still doesn't fit him in my opinion. He is a menacing and evil looking demon. In reality zilean is a wise, old, slightly goofy powerful man. They did not even change his voice lines in the blood moon skin. He's supposed to be menacing, and yet he still has the same goofy old man voice lines that make absolutely zero sense with the skin. Not only that, but zilean had to wait 4 years for this skin, that many players did not see the point of (even if they think it looks like his best skin - which isn't saying much). So you don't see why a djinn would be at least considerable? Like I said, original zilean is a very wise, magical, old man. He's already floating, like a genie. His ult could just be granting his allies a second chance at life. And yes, some djinn are evil, but some are good. Also, this isn't even my suggestion, it's just one of the first ideas I found because you asked for one. There are many more good ones out there. Just because you don't like the one I gave doesn't mean you can discredit my opinion of blood moon zilean.

JustJayson3 votes

Oh, a fellow zilean main like myself

TrunkStuffer2 votes

I would like to propose DJ Zil. We can have him do 3 diff transformations like Sona bit to make it different and spicy we can do 3 different eras. the first being something like the 20's where the clock on his back is just a Antique Phonograph (perhaps a steampunk looks to it) with a turn crank that does circles. his 2nd skin\ look can be something modern, and his last can be something future. This will all keep with the time theme.

       For his abilities lets start wit h his Q. For the 20's look he can have a  giant record spins over the targets head (either on is side or flat) and gets faster as it gets closer to the explosion, and when it explodes it shatters. for his modern look they could make his Q be a giant pair of head phones that pulsate and gets faster as it get closed to exploding. and last for his future look i got nothing for atm but open to suggestions. Another thing they can do is when  his q is on an enemy they can here the music he plays.

     I got nothing for his W rewind but open to suggestions as well mm maybe a crow chanting his name or just cheering. 

     For his E you can have his magic runes that float around his target be musical notes. There can even be 2 different sound affects depending on the target being friend or foe. For a friend it can sound like disk scratching that is at a fast rate and picking up, for an enemy the same but the scratching slowing as the effect goes on. 

   For his ult for the 20's he can have the 3 or 4 heads of a Antique Phonograph (the part that touches the disk with the pin to play it) circling the target. For the modern look he could have the he could have all the equalizers buttons\levers (specifically the ones that raise and lower parts of the music) just going up and down like he is adjusting music. For the future look he could have and equalizer that is a future wave equalizer like that of DJ Sona, that she has just around her as she plays.
Nick Da Chip2 votes

I want a zil skin in the same vain as Darius's dunkmaster skin. Free throw zilean, Everytime you get a double bomb it'll play, "hoop there it is!"

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