Zilean Build: How to play Zilean (Step by Step Guide)

How to play Zilean

Zilean – the Chronokeeper – is based on our LoL Mid Tier List on patch 15.14 a B-Tier Mid champion. Based on ranked matches from summoners with a PLATINUM+ tier, Zilean has a win rate of 52.9%, a pick rate of 0.3%, a ban rate of 1.1% and an average KDA Ratio of 0.0, which shows that the Support is in a moderate spot in the current meta of season 15. If you want to learn how to play Zilean on your matches, keep in mind that this champion is moderately difficult to play in LoL. This Zilean guide will give you also an understanding on how to beat Zilean. Besides the upcoming Zilean Mid Build the position Support is a valid choice as well.

Pregame Build

In champion select you need to choose your Zilean runes and summoner spells. The best Zilean Mid Runes 15.14 are Sorcery as the primary path and Precision as the secondary path. The most supportive Zilean keystone rune is Arcane Comet. Flash and Teleport are the summoner spells, which fits this LoL Zilean Build the most.

Item Build on Zilean

The starter items for the best Zilean Build on patch 15.14 are Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, and a Stealth Ward as the trinket. As the game progresses, the most popular Zilean items are Archangel's Staff and Seraph's Embrace. Ionian Boots of Lucidity are the most bought Zilean boots by Pros. This Zilean Build will greatly increase your chances to gain LP and to climb the leaderboard in LoL.

Zilean Abilities

At the beginning of a match start to skill the ability Time Bomb on Zilean. As the match progresses, it is best to maximise Time Bomb into Rewind and at last Time Warp. Time Bomb is a very strong ability of Zilean in order to build up a lead and dominate your opponents. The passive is called Time In A Bottle and there is no need to set it manually on a Zilean Build.

Select one of the abilities below in order to start a clip of the ability:

Time In A Bottle

Zilean stores time as Experience and can grant it to his allies. When he has enough Experience to finish an ally's level up, he can right-click them to impart it. Zilean receives as much Experience as he gives.

Biography

Once a member of Icathia’s governing council, Zilean is a prodigious elemental mage who seeks mastery over time itself. After using his powers in an attempt to save his people from the Void, he now drifts through the past, present, and future, bending and warping the flow of time around him. Zilean has traveled from Runeterra’s mysterious creation, all the way to its seemingly inevitable ending, searching tirelessly for any strand of fate that might undo his homeland’s destruction.

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