What are Zilean's abilities?

Zilean's kit: Time In A Bottle (Passive), Q Time Bomb, W Rewind, E Time Warp, R Chronoshift.

What position does Zilean play?

Zilean is typically played in the Support and Mage roles.

Champions / Zilean

the Chronokeeper

Zilean

SupportMageDifficulty · Moderate

Win rate

51.8%

Tier

BSupport

Pick

3.5%

Ban

1.8%

// What they do

// Abilities

Passive

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.

// Base stats at level 1Bar = against every champion

Health574

Attack dmg52

Armor24

Magic resist30

Move speed335

Range550

// Skins

9 total · in-game view

// Playing them · playing against them

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.

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.

// Worst matchupsAll →

Sona48.1%

Blitzcrank48.1%

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At a glance

Released: 18 April 2009
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP
Range: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Role: Specialist
Positions: Support

Basic attacksPlaystyleAbilities

Mode balance

ARAM · Damage dealt +5%
ARAM · Damage taken -5%
URF · Damage dealt +5%
URF · Damage taken -10%
One for All · Damage dealt +5%
One for All · Damage taken -5%

Ability details

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 Zilean and his allied champions have reached their maximum level.
When he has stored enough experience to level up an allied champion to their next level, 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. Additionally, if Zilean becomes affected by any form of crowd control, the channel is placed on a 10-second cooldown.
A successful channel will grant an equal amount of experience to the ally for them to level up as well as to Zilean, with a combined minimum of 15% of the stored experience.

Targeting: Unit

Notes

Time in a Bottle marks allied champions with two circles beneath them; the inner one represents how close they are to leveling up, turning golden when able to activate Time in a Bottle on them.
The target allied champion is not required to be out of combat to be leveled up by Time in a Bottle - only Zilean is.
Zilean only consumes the amount of experience required to level up an allied champion. He retains the excess for later use.
The target allied champion is not required to be within range of Zilean for the channel to complete successfully, it will complete regardless of if they move to a far distance.
The channel from Time in a Bottle is not interrupted even if the allied champion suddenly levels up. However, no experience will be granted to either player, and the passive will not go on cooldown.
The following table refers for interactions while Zilean is channeling:

This page uses material from the Zilean article on the League of Legends Wiki, and that material is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Zilean

// Abilities

Time In A Bottle

// Skins

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