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Zilean

Zilean

Time In A Bottle P

Time In A Bottle

Innate: Zilean generates 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6 / 12 (based on level) experience (does not count towards his own level up) every 5 seconds. Time in a Bottle is on cooldown when the game starts and becomes disabled when everyone on Zilean's team including himself has reached level 18.
When he has stored enough to level up an allied champion and grant the same amount of experience to himself, he can select them to channel for 1.2 seconds after a 0.5-second cast time. The channel is interrupted and disabled upon entering combat with enemy champions or taking damage from turrets, placing it on a 10-second cooldown. If Zilean interrupts it himself, it is placed on a 1-second cooldown, increased to 2 if he used a basic attack against a turret to do so.
A successful channel will grant an equal amount of experience to the ally to-level-up and Zilean, with a combined minimum of 15% his stored experience.
Time Bomb Q

Time Bomb

Cooldown: 10/9.5/9/8.5/8

Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Mana

Range: 900

Tosses a bomb to target area that sticks to units that come near it (prioritizes Champions). It detonates after 3 seconds, dealing area of effect damage. If a Time Bomb is detonated early by another Time Bomb, it also stuns enemies.

Magic Damage: 75 / 115 / 165 / 230 / 300 (+ 90% AP)

Stun Duration: 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 2 seconds

Rewind W

Rewind

Cooldown: 14/12/10/8/6

Cost: 35 Mana

Range: 600

Zilean can prepare himself for future confrontations, reducing the cooldowns of his other basic abilities.
Time Warp E

Time Warp

Cooldown: 15

Cost: 50 Mana

Range: 550

Zilean bends time around any unit, decreasing an enemy's Move Speed or increasing an ally's Move Speed for a short time.

Movement Speed Modifier: 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 99%

Chronoshift R

Chronoshift

Cooldown: 120/90/60

Cost: 125/150/175 Mana

Range: 900

Zilean places a protective time rune on an allied champion, teleporting the champion back in time if they take lethal damage.

Heal: 600 / 850 / 1100 (+ 200% AP)

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Playing the matchup

Playing as Zilean

  • You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
  • Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
  • Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.

Playing against Zilean

  • If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
  • Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.

Lore

Once a powerful Icathian mage, Zilean became obsessed with the passage of time after witnessing his homeland's destruction by the Void. Unable to spare even a minute to grieve the catastrophic loss, he called upon ancient temporal magic to divine all possible outcomes. Having become functionally immortal, Zilean now drifts through the past, present, and future, bending and warping the flow of time around him, always searching for that elusive moment that will turn back the clock and undo Icathia's destruction.