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[7.7] Agressive Killean the Zilean
Build Guide By Rumbaaa
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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
First back - If you have at least 1100g
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Second back - try to do it with 1600g
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first morello then boots
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Ability Order
Time in a Bottle (PASSIVE)
Zilean Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
Show All
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Synergies
Ideal
Strong
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Low
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Introduction
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Hi everyone, my name is Rumbaaa and I'm glad to show you my Zilean guide. I am diamond Zilean main. First of all you'll ask me what does word agressive means? Probably you have seen Zilean mid in competetive playing and soloq already. But it always was 'Zilean for the team'. My motto is 'Team for Zilean', thats why this guide is called 'Agressive Killean the Zilean. I hope that you know now why summoners spells are Flash and Ignite. This build is based on Ability Power and Magic Penetration, not cooldown reduction like others. You'll dominate mid lane and get control around. Zilean isn't roaming champion, he is a fortress on mid lane. You'll make so much pressure, that all your enemies will have to defend. And still, you'll be able to stay alone against five opponents.Also I would like to invite you on my twitch stream. I am playing there Zilean by this way.
And an YouTube channel, where you can find Zilean montages. Click on the image below and you'll get directly to it.
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Perfect game
How should perfect game look like?
here is the answer
here is the answer
Pros and Cons
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Pros
+ huge damage + second life, thanks to Chronoshift+ AoE stun + up to 99% speed up/slow + good wave clears + can defend even 1v5 |
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Cons
- weak laning phase before lvl 6 - in higher elo people know how Chronoshift works- lack of mana without blue/morellonomicon - if you miss double Time Bomb, you are in trouble- can't use Chronoshift while stunned, knocked up, silenced |
Runes
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Masteries
I won't describe every single mastery, some of them are obvious pick.
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Summoner spells
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Zilean's skills
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Time in a bottle (Passive) RANGE: 550 COOLDOWN: 120 |
Zilean bottles 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6 / 12 experience every 5 seconds. When he has enough experience stored to finish an ally's level, he can right-click them to give both himself and his ally the amount stored. Donate an experience to your allies! Primarily focus on you AD Carry and Jungler. But for eg. it's right before teamfight and your ADC is lvl 6 and Support is lvl 5, give experience to the Support. Also look at the circles, it says how many experience an ally needs to lvl up. The closer yellow inner circle is to outer circle, the less experience your ally needs. |
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Time bomb (Q) RANGE: 900 COST: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 COOLDOWN: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 |
Zilean tosses a time-delayed bomb to a location, which then sticks to the first unit that comes within a small area around it (prioritizes champions). After 3 seconds, the bomb detonates, dealing 75 / 115 / 165 / 230 / 300 (+90% of ability power) magic damage to all surrounding enemies. It is your basic skill. Use Rewind to cast Time Bomb again and stun enemies. Remember, that you don't have to put bomb on enemy. Use minions. With Rod of Ages backlane minions dies by using one Timbe bomb, use two bombs when enemy is close to deal damage from both bombs immediately.
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Rewind (W) COST: 35 COOLDOWN: 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 |
Reduces the cooldowns of Time Bomb and Time Warp by 10 seconds. Cannot be learned at level 1. Use this skill to do combo with Time Bomb. Also use it to get your Time Warp again and be faster on lane/drake/nashor etc.
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Time warp (E) RANGE: 550 COST: 50 COOLDOWN: 15 |
Zilean slows an enemy champion's movement speed or increases an allied champion's movement speed by 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 99 % for 2.5 seconds. You can use it to slow down your enemy and get better aim for Time Bomb. If you are escaping from a melee champion use Time Warp on your enemy, otherwise on yourself. Don't forget that you can speed up your allies aswell. You can put a bomb on your ally and speed him up. Make him an alive bomb.
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Chronoshift (R) RANGE: 900 COST: 125 / 150 / 175 COOLDOWN: 120 / 90 / 60 |
Marks an ally champion or himself with a protective time rune for 5 seconds. If the target takes lethal damage during this time, instead of dying, they will be untargettable and remain in stasis for 2 seconds, then return to life, regaining 600 / 850 / 1100 (+200% of ability power) Health. Second life, isn't it awesome? Of course it is! Wait with using Chronoshift to the very ending. At higher elo players knows, that they have to wait until it goes away. Don't forget that you can use it on your teammates! In teamfights save ultimate for AD Carry / Jungler, depends who is more useful. Sometimes you have to ult yourself. If you know that, teamfight won't go further save your Support or anybody else.
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Items
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As I said, you play for magic penetration, it provides, so that you deal extreme damage with our abilities. |
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Core item for Zilean. You need some health, mana and of course ability power.
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Second core item. More Ability Power, 20% Cooldown Reduction and very helpful passive: Kills and assists restore 20% of your maximum mana. |
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More Magic Penetration to nuke. |
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Remember our motto? 'Team for Zilean', so you have to nuke them, get more Ability Power. |
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No need to building deffensive items like Zhonya's Hourglass, you will survive everything. Probably game will end before you build this.
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Forget about
Archangel's Staff, it's useless.
Laning phase
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Mid game
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Teamfights and late game
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Synergies
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Zilean works brilliant with tank top laners with engages. I showed you some examples. Put Time Bomb on your tank and speed him up twice. Your cooldown are up, so you can use double Time Bombs on stunned/sneared enemy.
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One example of good synergy beetwen tanky jungler with cc. And three with assassin's. Speed up and keep alive your assassin's by using Chronoshift
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Zilean works very good with hyper carries. When they get red buff it's even better. Keep using Time Warp on them and watch how your AD Carry kills them 1v5. If he makes a bad move use Chronoshift to give him a second chance.
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If you already have a hyper carry in your team, it's pretty good to have support with speed up and shield. That's why champions like Lulu works great. And of course supports with cc, speed up them and they put cc on your enemies.
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Warding
| Red circles: put pink ward here. Of course it's nice if you know where enemy's wards are so you can spot it. | Yellow circles: you have to keep warding these two brushes. You are fast enough to escape when you spot enemy jungler. | Green circles: put wards here to have a knowledge about enemy jungler. Then steal his crug camp. | Blue circle: ward here, before recalling. You'll know what enemy mid laner is doing. |
End
I would love to invite you again to my stream and youtube channel. Hope you'll check what am I doing there :-)
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[7.7] Agressive Killean the Zilean
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