Wild Rift: ZILEAN Build Guide
League of Legends: Wild Rift ZILEAN, role - Support. Use the guidelines to take your ZILEAN Wild Rift champion play style to the next level. Study in detail the build of items, runes, spells, skills that need to be developed in the first place. In order to find out what position ZILEAN is in the rating table, go to the - Tier List page.
 54 (3) |  630 (120) |  10 (0.65) |
 0.75 (0.01) |  460 (50) |  12 (0.86) |
 360 (0) |  45 (4.36) |  36 (1.22) |
 175 (0) |
(PASSIVE) TIME IN A BOTTLE
90s
Stores time as Experience at a rate of 20/50/80 (level 1/5/10) XP per 5 second(s). Zilean can grant this Experience to the nearest allied champion when he has enough to complete their next level up by tapping the minion button. Doing so gives Zilean the same amount of Experience. Experience can only be imparted to allies who can level up. If Zilean takes damage or is crowd controlled while imparting Experience, the process will be interrupted.
(Q) TIME BOMB
0.1s 
60/65/70/75
Tosses a Time Bomb to a target location. The bomb sticks to the first unit which comes within a small area around it. After 3 second(s), it detonates, dealing 75 magic damage (75/150/225/300 + 75% 
) to the target and nearby enemies. The bomb prioritizes champions and units that are already carrying a bomb.
Early detonation: Placing a second bomb on the same target detonates the first bomb, stunning enemies in the blast for 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 second(s).
Charge: Stores up to 2 charge(s). 
12/11.5/11/10.5 second(s).
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
13/12.5/12/11.5s 35
Makes time flow faster for himself, applying Fleeting Time to himself and gaining a shield that absorbs 60 damage (60/85/110/135 + 45% ). Zilean also grants Fleeting Time and an identical shield to the nearest allied champion for 3 second(s).
Fleeting Time: Increases projectile speed by 60% and grants 25% Movement Speed (25/25/45/55% + 6% ).
While Zilean's Fleeting Time is active, his basic Ability Haste is increased by 80%.
(E) TIME WARP
25s 50
Creates a time-bending force field for 2.5 second(s). While within the force field, enemy champions are slowed by 20% (20/25/30/35 + 5% ) and projectiles by 80%.
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
90/80/70s 125/150/175
Places a protective time rune that lasts 5 second(s) on himself or an allied champion. If the rune bearer takes lethal damage during this time, they teleport back in time and become untargetable for 3 second(s) before they are revived and healed for 600 Health (600/850/1100 + 200% ).
If the rune bearer does not trigger the rune's revival effect, 15% of Chronoshift's cooldown will be refunded.
While being revived, the target becomes untargetable and invulnerable but cannot take any actions.
Support ZILEAN Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Support Line ZILEAN. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Relic Shield (Kill minions to earn bonus gold). Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy 
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Relic Shield
Kill minions to earn bonus gold
+100 Max Health
This item is for support players. When equipped, it will reduce the gold you receive from killing minions and monsters. If there are multiples of this item within the party, only one of them can take effect at any given time.
Spoils of War: Gains 1 charge(s) every 30 seconds (up to 3 times). Attacking enemy minions consumes 1 charge(s) and executes minions whose Health are below 65%, granting your teammates the entire bounty, while granting you 65 bonus gold and restoring your Health by 15-65.
While you will not participate in the resulting minion bounty sharing, you will personally receive gold equal to 50% of the bounty. Your share of the bounty from the minion kill will be entirely given to nearby teammates.
Also reduces monster bounties by 50%.
Deal 1 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom.
Quest: Earn 750 gold with this item to transform it into Bulwark of the Mountain.
500
Bulwark of the Mountain
Kill minions to earn bonus gold +175 Max Health +10 Ability Haste
Every 60 seconds, gains 75 gold and 1 stacks of soulforce (up to 10 stacks). Each stack of soulforce grants 25 Health, 2 Attack Damage, or 4 Ability Power (Adaptive).
Deal 2 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom. 0
Bulwark of the Mountain TIPS: This item is designed for support players and grants passive gold income every 60 seconds along with Soulforce stacks that boost your health, attack damage, or ability power. At 10 stacks, you gain a significant adaptive stat bonus. While it reduces gold from killing minions and monsters, it accelerates your team’s economic pace. An additional effect deals extra damage to revealed Sight Wards, making it easier to clear vision and maintain map control.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health
+150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste.
+45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Archangel's Staff
Converts Mana to Ability Power
+35 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration +500 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Awe: Grants Ability Power equal to 1% max Mana and refunds 25% of all Mana spent.
Mana Charge: Increases max Mana by 15 every time Mana is spent. Caps at 700 bonus Mana, transforming Archangel's Staff into Seraph's Embrace. Triggers up to 3 times every 12 seconds. You may only carry one Tear of the Goddess item at a time. 2950
Archangel's Staff TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on a large mana pool and need a significant boost to their ability power. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use your abilities frequently. The "Awe" effect increases your ability power based on your maximum mana and refunds a portion of mana spent, helping you sustain in fights. The "Mana Charge" effect increases your maximum mana every time you spend mana, eventually transforming the item into Seraph's Embrace, giving you additional bonuses. This item is ideal for champions who want to scale well into the late game with a large amount of AP and mana.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health +150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste. +45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Locket Enchant
Area of effect magic shield
Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 60-330 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s cooldown)
This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds. 500
Locket Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a magic shield to you and nearby allies, absorbing damage for a brief duration. The shield is ideal in large teamfights, providing extra protection and opportunities for counterplay. Perfect for tanks who frequently stand in the thick of battle and want to safeguard their team during critical moments.
Veil Enchant
Block an ability for an ally
Veil (Active): Grant a spell shield to a nearby ally for 3 seconds, blocking the next hostile ability. (45s Cooldown) 500
Veil Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a nearby ally a spell shield for 3 seconds, blocking the next enemy ability. An excellent choice for supports, enabling the protection of key teammates from crowd control or powerful skills at critical moments in fights.
Bulwark of the Mountain (Kill minions to earn bonus gold) as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity (Grants Ability Haste) (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Archangel's Staff (Converts Mana to Ability Power).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Locket Enchant (Area of effect magic shield). You may want to replace it with Veil Enchant (Block an ability for an ally), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Bulwark of the Mountain
Kill minions to earn bonus gold +175 Max Health +10 Ability Haste
Every 60 seconds, gains 75 gold and 1 stacks of soulforce (up to 10 stacks). Each stack of soulforce grants 25 Health, 2 Attack Damage, or 4 Ability Power (Adaptive).
Deal 2 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom. 0
Bulwark of the Mountain TIPS: This item is designed for support players and grants passive gold income every 60 seconds along with Soulforce stacks that boost your health, attack damage, or ability power. At 10 stacks, you gain a significant adaptive stat bonus. While it reduces gold from killing minions and monsters, it accelerates your team’s economic pace. An additional effect deals extra damage to revealed Sight Wards, making it easier to clear vision and maintain map control.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health +150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste. +45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Archangel's Staff
Converts Mana to Ability Power +35 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +500 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Awe: Grants Ability Power equal to 1% max Mana and refunds 25% of all Mana spent.
Mana Charge: Increases max Mana by 15 every time Mana is spent. Caps at 700 bonus Mana, transforming Archangel's Staff into Seraph's Embrace. Triggers up to 3 times every 12 seconds. You may only carry one Tear of the Goddess item at a time. 2950
Archangel's Staff TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on a large mana pool and need a significant boost to their ability power. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use your abilities frequently. The "Awe" effect increases your ability power based on your maximum mana and refunds a portion of mana spent, helping you sustain in fights. The "Mana Charge" effect increases your maximum mana every time you spend mana, eventually transforming the item into Seraph's Embrace, giving you additional bonuses. This item is ideal for champions who want to scale well into the late game with a large amount of AP and mana.
Imperial Mandate
Crowd control grants additional ally damage +200 Max Health +40 Ability Power +20 Ability Haste
Coordinated Fire: Abilities that Slow or Immobilize a champion deal 47-75 bonus magic damage and marks them for 4 seconds (6 seconds cooldown per enemy champion). Allied champion damage detonates the mark, dealing an additional 94-150 magic damage (based on ally level) and granting you both 20% Move Speed, for 2 seconds. 2500
Imperial Mandate TIPS: This item is perfect for support champions who have abilities that slow or immobilize enemies, allowing you to activate effects for your team. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and ability haste, helping you deal damage while also enhancing teamwork with your allies. The "Coordinated Fire" effect activates when you slow or immobilize an enemy, dealing bonus magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds. When an allied champion damages the marked target, it detonates the mark, dealing additional magic damage and granting both you and your ally 20% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. This item is especially useful for champions with crowd control abilities.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Situational items
Imperial Mandate
Crowd control grants additional ally damage +200 Max Health +40 Ability Power +20 Ability Haste
Coordinated Fire: Abilities that Slow or Immobilize a champion deal 47-75 bonus magic damage and marks them for 4 seconds (6 seconds cooldown per enemy champion). Allied champion damage detonates the mark, dealing an additional 94-150 magic damage (based on ally level) and granting you both 20% Move Speed, for 2 seconds. 2500
Imperial Mandate TIPS: This item is perfect for support champions who have abilities that slow or immobilize enemies, allowing you to activate effects for your team. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and ability haste, helping you deal damage while also enhancing teamwork with your allies. The "Coordinated Fire" effect activates when you slow or immobilize an enemy, dealing bonus magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds. When an allied champion damages the marked target, it detonates the mark, dealing additional magic damage and granting both you and your ally 20% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. This item is especially useful for champions with crowd control abilities.
Bandle Fantasy
Additional Magic Damage +85 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +300 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Flameblossom: Damaging an enemy champion with an active ability spawns a trap at their feet. After a brief delay, the trap deals magic damage equal to 105 plus 15% AP to enemies in it (8 second(s) cooldown per target). If a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first deal only 20% damage. 3000
Bandle Fantasy TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who want to use their abilities to control the battlefield and deal damage through magical traps. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping to increase damage and ability uptime. The "Flameblossom" effect creates traps when dealing damage to enemy champions with an active ability. After a brief delay, the trap explodes, dealing magic damage to enemies within its area. However, if a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first will deal only 20% of their damage. This item is especially useful for champions who can hit multiple enemies and use traps for damage and crowd control.
Bandle Fantasy — This item is perfect for mages who want to use their abilities to control the battlefield and deal damage through magical traps. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping to increase damage and ability uptime. The "Flameblossom" effect creates traps when dealing damage to enemy champions with an active ability. After a brief delay, the trap explodes, dealing magic damage to enemies within its area. However, if a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first will deal only 20% of their damage. This item is especially useful for champions who can hit multiple enemies and use traps for damage and crowd control.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Oceanid's Trident
Anti-Shielding +200 Max Health +80 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +10 Ability Haste
Lethal Weapon: Dealing ability damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3 seconds. Area of effect abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%; while single target abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Lethal Weapon, all shields on them are reduced by the same values. 2600
Oceanid's Trident TIPS: This item is perfect for mage-assassins who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and more effectively break through enemy shields. The "Lethal Weapon" effect reduces the effectiveness of shields that enemies gain based on the type of ability you use. Area of effect abilities apply up to 45% shield reduction, while single target abilities apply up to 60%, allowing you to significantly reduce enemy defenses. This item is especially useful when the enemy team relies on shields for protection.
Oceanid's Trident — This item is perfect for mage-assassins who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and more effectively break through enemy shields. The "Lethal Weapon" effect reduces the effectiveness of shields that enemies gain based on the type of ability you use. Area of effect abilities apply up to 45% shield reduction, while single target abilities apply up to 60%, allowing you to significantly reduce enemy defenses. This item is especially useful when the enemy team relies on shields for protection.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Rabadon's Deathcap
Boosts Ability Power +100 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Overkill: Increases Ability Power by 20-45%
. 3400
Rabadon's Deathcap TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on high ability power ratios and want to significantly increase their damage output. It provides a huge bonus to ability power and magic penetration. The "Overkill" effect increases your ability power by 20-45%, depending on the level, significantly enhancing your magical abilities and attacks. This item is especially useful against enemy teams that lack magic resistance or have squishy targets, as it allows you to significantly boost your damage and deal massive magic damage.
Rabadon's Deathcap — This item is perfect for mages who rely on high ability power ratios and want to significantly increase their damage output. It provides a huge bonus to ability power and magic penetration. The "Overkill" effect increases your ability power by 20-45%, depending on the level, significantly enhancing your magical abilities and attacks. This item is especially useful against enemy teams that lack magic resistance or have squishy targets, as it allows you to significantly boost your damage and deal massive magic damage.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
Morellonomicon — This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed
+80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Frozen Heart — This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.Summoner Spells
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and 
Heal (Restore Health to you and the most wounded nearby ally champion) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Heal
Restore 110 Health (110–400 ) to you and the most wounded nearby ally champion, and grants both of you 30% bonus Movement Speed for 2 second(s).
Healing is halved for champions recently affected by Heal.
Cooldown: 100s
Runes BUILD
Aery (Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.) as your keystone, followed by 
Scorch (Deals bonus damage to champions on ability hit.), 
Cheap Shot (Deals true damage to enemy champions when their movement is impaired.) and 
Zombie Ward (After removing an enemy ward, spawns a Zombie Ward that grants vision.) in the primary tree, as well as 
Transcendence (Grants more Ability Haste the higher your level is and also returns ability cooldown duration.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Aery
Poke, Protect
Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.
Damage: 10-60 () + 20% bonus 
+ 10% .
Shield: 20-120 () + 40% bonus + 20% .
Aery cannot be sent out again until she returns to you.
Scorch
Poke
Damaging an enemy champion with an ability burns them, dealing 28-42 bonus magic damage () after 1 seconds.
Cooldown: 8s
Cheap Shot
Bonus Damage
Deals 10-45 bonus true damage to enemies whose movement is impaired.
Cooldown: 7s
Zombie Ward
Vision, Adaptive Force
Removing an enemy ward spawns a Zombie Ward in its place, granting vision of the surrounding area for 120 seconds. Also gains 3 or 6. Stacks up to 5 times.
Gains a bonus 10 or 20upon reaching 5 stacks.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Situational Runes
Zombie Ward
Vision, Adaptive Force
Removing an enemy ward spawns a Zombie Ward in its place, granting vision of the surrounding area for 120 seconds. Also gains 3 or 6. Stacks up to 5 times.
Gains a bonus 10 or 20upon reaching 5 stacks.
Eyeball Collector
Adaptive Force
Gains 1 or 2 after each unique enemy champion takedown, stacking up to 10 times.
At 10 stacks, gain bonus 10 or 20.
Eyeball Collector — The rune allows you to gain strength after each unique enemy champion takedown, granting you bonus attack damage or ability power. It is useful for champions like Zed or Fizz, who can easily eliminate enemies in fights. After reaching the maximum number of stacks, the rune significantly boosts your damage potential, making it an excellent choice for aggressive champions aiming to quickly increase their power and deal more damage.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Manaflow Band
Mana
Hitting an enemy champion with and ability or empowered attack permanently increases your max mana by 30, up to 300 mana.
Manaflow Band — The rune permanently increases your maximum mana with each hit on an enemy champion using an ability or empowered attack, up to a maximum of 300 mana. This rune is perfect for champions who frequently use their abilities and need more mana for efficient combat, such as mages or champions with high mana consumption.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.Skills Order
(Q) TIME BOMB
0.1s 60/65/70/75
Tosses a Time Bomb to a target location. The bomb sticks to the first unit which comes within a small area around it. After 3 second(s), it detonates, dealing 75 magic damage (75/150/225/300 + 75% ) to the target and nearby enemies. The bomb prioritizes champions and units that are already carrying a bomb.
Early detonation: Placing a second bomb on the same target detonates the first bomb, stunning enemies in the blast for 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 second(s).
Charge: Stores up to 2 charge(s). 12/11.5/11/10.5 second(s).
(Q) TIME BOMB
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
13/12.5/12/11.5s 35
Makes time flow faster for himself, applying Fleeting Time to himself and gaining a shield that absorbs 60 damage (60/85/110/135 + 45% ). Zilean also grants Fleeting Time and an identical shield to the nearest allied champion for 3 second(s).
Fleeting Time: Increases projectile speed by 60% and grants 25% Movement Speed (25/25/45/55% + 6% ).
While Zilean's Fleeting Time is active, his basic Ability Haste is increased by 80%.
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
(E) TIME WARP
25s 50
Creates a time-bending force field for 2.5 second(s). While within the force field, enemy champions are slowed by 20% (20/25/30/35 + 5% ) and projectiles by 80%.
(E) TIME WARP
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
90/80/70s 125/150/175
Places a protective time rune that lasts 5 second(s) on himself or an allied champion. If the rune bearer takes lethal damage during this time, they teleport back in time and become untargetable for 3 second(s) before they are revived and healed for 600 Health (600/850/1100 + 200% ).
If the rune bearer does not trigger the rune's revival effect, 15% of Chronoshift's cooldown will be refunded.
While being revived, the target becomes untargetable and invulnerable but cannot take any actions.
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
Support ZILEAN Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Support ZILEAN. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
Support ZILEAN Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Support ZILEAN in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Magic Resist
Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against ZILEAN combo.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed +350 Max Health +55 Magic Resistance
Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%. 2750
Force of Nature TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and magic resistance, and its “Absorb” passive stacks up when you take ability damage from enemy champions, reducing all incoming magic damage and granting bonus movement speed at max stacks. It’s perfect for tanks who need to withstand teams heavy in magic damage and maintain mobility to be in the right position during fights. Pick this up when the enemy team builds magic damage (e.g., Syndra, Brand) and you need extra movement speed to initiate effectively or escape dangerous situations.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield +55 Attack Damage +45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Support ZILEAN Strengths and Weaknesses
Support ZILEAN Strategy and Tactics
Mid ZILEAN Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Mid Line ZILEAN. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Sapphire Crystal. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Sapphire Crystal +100 Max Mana +5 Ability Haste
Mana Charge: Increases max Mana by 5 every time Mana is spent. Caps at 250 bonus mana. Triggers up to 3 times every 12 seconds. You may only carry one Tear of the Goddess item at a time. 500
Rod of Ages
Stats grow over time +250 Max Health +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +300 Max Mana
Eternity: Restore Mana equal to 15% of the damage taken from champions. Restore Health equal to 20% Mana spent. Capped at 25 Health per cast.
Veteran: Each stack provides 25 Health, 10 Mana and 6 Ability Power, stacking at a rate of 1 every 35 seconds. Max of 10 stacks, providing 250 Health, 100 Mana, and 60 Ability Power. 2800
Rod of Ages TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need survivability and strong resource regeneration. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and maximum mana, enhancing both damage and durability. The "Eternity" effect restores mana based on damage taken from champions and health based on mana spent, allowing you to maintain resources in battle. The "Veteran" effect provides stacking bonuses to health, mana, and ability power, making the item useful for extended fights. It’s an excellent choice for mages who need additional defensive stats and sustainability throughout the game.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health +150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste. +45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Archangel's Staff
Converts Mana to Ability Power +35 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +500 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Awe: Grants Ability Power equal to 1% max Mana and refunds 25% of all Mana spent.
Mana Charge: Increases max Mana by 15 every time Mana is spent. Caps at 700 bonus Mana, transforming Archangel's Staff into Seraph's Embrace. Triggers up to 3 times every 12 seconds. You may only carry one Tear of the Goddess item at a time. 2950
Archangel's Staff TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on a large mana pool and need a significant boost to their ability power. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use your abilities frequently. The "Awe" effect increases your ability power based on your maximum mana and refunds a portion of mana spent, helping you sustain in fights. The "Mana Charge" effect increases your maximum mana every time you spend mana, eventually transforming the item into Seraph's Embrace, giving you additional bonuses. This item is ideal for champions who want to scale well into the late game with a large amount of AP and mana.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health +150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste. +45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Boots of Mana
Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Mana Regeneration +55 Ability Power +45 Move Speed. +150% Mana Regeneration
Magic Break: +8% Magic Penetration.
Big Bully: Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions. 1400
Boots of Mana TIPS: These boots are perfect for mages who need extra mana regeneration and enhanced spell power. They provide bonuses to ability power, movement speed, and greatly speed up mana recovery. The “Magic Break” passive increases your spell effectiveness with bonus magic penetration, while “Big Bully” accelerates waveclear by dealing bonus physical damage to minions with attacks and active abilities. These boots are ideal for mid laners and supports who rely on mana for constant ability usage and want to farm waves more efficiently.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Rod of Ages (Stats grow over time) as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity (Grants Ability Haste) or Boots of Mana (Grants Ability Power, Magic Penetration and Mana Regeneration) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Archangel's Staff (Converts Mana to Ability Power).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Stasis Enchant (Turn invulnerable).
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Rod of Ages
Stats grow over time +250 Max Health +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +300 Max Mana
Eternity: Restore Mana equal to 15% of the damage taken from champions. Restore Health equal to 20% Mana spent. Capped at 25 Health per cast.
Veteran: Each stack provides 25 Health, 10 Mana and 6 Ability Power, stacking at a rate of 1 every 35 seconds. Max of 10 stacks, providing 250 Health, 100 Mana, and 60 Ability Power. 2800
Rod of Ages TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need survivability and strong resource regeneration. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and maximum mana, enhancing both damage and durability. The "Eternity" effect restores mana based on damage taken from champions and health based on mana spent, allowing you to maintain resources in battle. The "Veteran" effect provides stacking bonuses to health, mana, and ability power, making the item useful for extended fights. It’s an excellent choice for mages who need additional defensive stats and sustainability throughout the game.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Cooldown +150 Max Health +150% Mana Regen
+30 Ability Haste. +45 Move Speed.
Summoned: Reduces spell cooldowns by 15%. 1400
Ionian Boots of Lucidity TIPS: This item provides bonus health, mana regeneration, ability haste, and movement speed, while also reducing summoner spell cooldowns by 15%. It’s ideal not only for supports, mages, and junglers, but also for assassins who rely on rapid ability and summoner spell turnaround to execute quick kills and reposition effectively in fights.
Archangel's Staff
Converts Mana to Ability Power +35 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +500 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Awe: Grants Ability Power equal to 1% max Mana and refunds 25% of all Mana spent.
Mana Charge: Increases max Mana by 15 every time Mana is spent. Caps at 700 bonus Mana, transforming Archangel's Staff into Seraph's Embrace. Triggers up to 3 times every 12 seconds. You may only carry one Tear of the Goddess item at a time. 2950
Archangel's Staff TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on a large mana pool and need a significant boost to their ability power. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use your abilities frequently. The "Awe" effect increases your ability power based on your maximum mana and refunds a portion of mana spent, helping you sustain in fights. The "Mana Charge" effect increases your maximum mana every time you spend mana, eventually transforming the item into Seraph's Embrace, giving you additional bonuses. This item is ideal for champions who want to scale well into the late game with a large amount of AP and mana.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Imperial Mandate
Crowd control grants additional ally damage +200 Max Health +40 Ability Power +20 Ability Haste
Coordinated Fire: Abilities that Slow or Immobilize a champion deal 47-75 bonus magic damage and marks them for 4 seconds (6 seconds cooldown per enemy champion). Allied champion damage detonates the mark, dealing an additional 94-150 magic damage (based on ally level) and granting you both 20% Move Speed, for 2 seconds. 2500
Imperial Mandate TIPS: This item is perfect for support champions who have abilities that slow or immobilize enemies, allowing you to activate effects for your team. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and ability haste, helping you deal damage while also enhancing teamwork with your allies. The "Coordinated Fire" effect activates when you slow or immobilize an enemy, dealing bonus magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds. When an allied champion damages the marked target, it detonates the mark, dealing additional magic damage and granting both you and your ally 20% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. This item is especially useful for champions with crowd control abilities.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Situational items
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Rabadon's Deathcap
Boosts Ability Power +100 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Overkill: Increases Ability Power by 20-45%. 3400
Rabadon's Deathcap TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on high ability power ratios and want to significantly increase their damage output. It provides a huge bonus to ability power and magic penetration. The "Overkill" effect increases your ability power by 20-45%, depending on the level, significantly enhancing your magical abilities and attacks. This item is especially useful against enemy teams that lack magic resistance or have squishy targets, as it allows you to significantly boost your damage and deal massive magic damage.
Rabadon's Deathcap — This item is perfect for mages who rely on high ability power ratios and want to significantly increase their damage output. It provides a huge bonus to ability power and magic penetration. The "Overkill" effect increases your ability power by 20-45%, depending on the level, significantly enhancing your magical abilities and attacks. This item is especially useful against enemy teams that lack magic resistance or have squishy targets, as it allows you to significantly boost your damage and deal massive magic damage.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Liandry's Torment — This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Cosmic Drive
Dealing ability damage grants movement speed +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +30 Ability Haste
Hyperdrive: +5% Move Speed.
Spellweaving: Active abilities and empowered attacks grant 30 +70% Ability Haste as Movement Speed after dealing damage to an enemy champion. This Movement Speed decays over 2 seconds.
Each source has an individual 1s cooldown for triggering Spellweaving.
Only Haste from items contributes to Spellweaving's movement speed. 2800
Cosmic Drive TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who rely on AP and movement speed to improve mobility and positioning in fights. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and use abilities more frequently. The "Spellweaving" effect grants bonus movement speed after using active abilities or empowered attacks, helping you dodge enemy abilities and position better in fights. This item is especially useful for champions who face enemies with low mobility or those vulnerable to crowd control.
Bandle Fantasy
Additional Magic Damage +85 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +300 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Flameblossom: Damaging an enemy champion with an active ability spawns a trap at their feet. After a brief delay, the trap deals magic damage equal to 105 plus 15% AP to enemies in it (8 second(s) cooldown per target). If a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first deal only 20% damage. 3000
Bandle Fantasy TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who want to use their abilities to control the battlefield and deal damage through magical traps. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping to increase damage and ability uptime. The "Flameblossom" effect creates traps when dealing damage to enemy champions with an active ability. After a brief delay, the trap explodes, dealing magic damage to enemies within its area. However, if a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first will deal only 20% of their damage. This item is especially useful for champions who can hit multiple enemies and use traps for damage and crowd control.
Bandle Fantasy — This item is perfect for mages who want to use their abilities to control the battlefield and deal damage through magical traps. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste, helping to increase damage and ability uptime. The "Flameblossom" effect creates traps when dealing damage to enemy champions with an active ability. After a brief delay, the trap explodes, dealing magic damage to enemies within its area. However, if a target is hit by more than one trap set by the same champion within a short duration, traps after the first will deal only 20% of their damage. This item is especially useful for champions who can hit multiple enemies and use traps for damage and crowd control.
Imperial Mandate
Crowd control grants additional ally damage +200 Max Health +40 Ability Power +20 Ability Haste
Coordinated Fire: Abilities that Slow or Immobilize a champion deal 47-75 bonus magic damage and marks them for 4 seconds (6 seconds cooldown per enemy champion). Allied champion damage detonates the mark, dealing an additional 94-150 magic damage (based on ally level) and granting you both 20% Move Speed, for 2 seconds. 2500
Imperial Mandate TIPS: This item is perfect for support champions who have abilities that slow or immobilize enemies, allowing you to activate effects for your team. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and ability haste, helping you deal damage while also enhancing teamwork with your allies. The "Coordinated Fire" effect activates when you slow or immobilize an enemy, dealing bonus magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds. When an allied champion damages the marked target, it detonates the mark, dealing additional magic damage and granting both you and your ally 20% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. This item is especially useful for champions with crowd control abilities.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
Morellonomicon — This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
Imperial Mandate
Crowd control grants additional ally damage +200 Max Health +40 Ability Power +20 Ability Haste
Coordinated Fire: Abilities that Slow or Immobilize a champion deal 47-75 bonus magic damage and marks them for 4 seconds (6 seconds cooldown per enemy champion). Allied champion damage detonates the mark, dealing an additional 94-150 magic damage (based on ally level) and granting you both 20% Move Speed, for 2 seconds. 2500
Imperial Mandate TIPS: This item is perfect for support champions who have abilities that slow or immobilize enemies, allowing you to activate effects for your team. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and ability haste, helping you deal damage while also enhancing teamwork with your allies. The "Coordinated Fire" effect activates when you slow or immobilize an enemy, dealing bonus magic damage and marking them for 4 seconds. When an allied champion damages the marked target, it detonates the mark, dealing additional magic damage and granting both you and your ally 20% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds. This item is especially useful for champions with crowd control abilities.
Horizon Focus
Deals bonus damage to marked targets +90 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Hypershot: Damaging an enemy champion with an ability from 600 units away reveals them for 8 seconds and increases damage dealt to them by 12%.
Focus: When Hypershot is triggered, it reveals all enemy champions within 1,200 units of the target for 3s. (12s Cooldown) 3100
Horizon Focus TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who rely on long-range damage and want to increase their damage to enemies from a distance. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal more damage and use your abilities more quickly. The "Hypershot" effect increases damage to enemies you damage from over 600 units away, while also revealing them for 8 seconds, giving you an advantage in combat. This item allows you to deal more damage from longer ranges or against immobilized enemies. It is especially effective against champions who rely on their mobility, such as Akali, Yasuo, and Zed, as well as those who poke from a distance, like Lux and Ziggs, as it helps you control their movements and increase your damage output.
Horizon Focus — This item is perfect for mages who rely on long-range damage and want to increase their damage to enemies from a distance. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal more damage and use your abilities more quickly. The "Hypershot" effect increases damage to enemies you damage from over 600 units away, while also revealing them for 8 seconds, giving you an advantage in combat. This item allows you to deal more damage from longer ranges or against immobilized enemies. It is especially effective against champions who rely on their mobility, such as Akali, Yasuo, and Zed, as well as those who poke from a distance, like Lux and Ziggs, as it helps you control their movements and increase your damage output.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Oceanid's Trident
Anti-Shielding +200 Max Health +80 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +10 Ability Haste
Lethal Weapon: Dealing ability damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3 seconds. Area of effect abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%; while single target abilities apply (5% of bonus AP + 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Lethal Weapon, all shields on them are reduced by the same values. 2600
Oceanid's Trident TIPS: This item is perfect for mage-assassins who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and more effectively break through enemy shields. The "Lethal Weapon" effect reduces the effectiveness of shields that enemies gain based on the type of ability you use. Area of effect abilities apply up to 45% shield reduction, while single target abilities apply up to 60%, allowing you to significantly reduce enemy defenses. This item is especially useful when the enemy team relies on shields for protection.
Oceanid's Trident — This item is perfect for mage-assassins who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste, helping you deal damage and more effectively break through enemy shields. The "Lethal Weapon" effect reduces the effectiveness of shields that enemies gain based on the type of ability you use. Area of effect abilities apply up to 45% shield reduction, while single target abilities apply up to 60%, allowing you to significantly reduce enemy defenses. This item is especially useful when the enemy team relies on shields for protection.Summoner Spells
Runes BUILD
Phase Rush (Hitting the enemy champion(s) with basic attacks or abilities multiple times grants Movement Speed and Ability Haste.) as your keystone, followed by Scorch (Deals bonus damage to champions on ability hit.), Cheap Shot (Deals true damage to enemy champions when their movement is impaired.) and Eyeball Collector (Gains Adaptive Force after champion takedowns.) in the primary tree, as well as Transcendence (Grants more Ability Haste the higher your level is and also returns ability cooldown duration.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Phase Rush
Mobility, Ability Haste
Using basic attacks or abilities on an enemy champion 3 time(s) within 4s grants Movement Speed and reduces the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Duration: 3s.
Movement Speed bonus: Melee - 40%-60% () | Ranged - 30-50% ().
Ability Haste: 25.
Cooldown: 12s
Scorch
Poke
Damaging an enemy champion with an ability burns them, dealing 28-42 bonus magic damage () after 1 seconds.
Cooldown: 8s
Cheap Shot
Bonus Damage
Deals 10-45 bonus true damage to enemies whose movement is impaired.
Cooldown: 7s
Eyeball Collector
Adaptive Force
Gains 1 or 2 after each unique enemy champion takedown, stacking up to 10 times.
At 10 stacks, gain bonus 10 or 20.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Situational Runes
Phase Rush
Mobility, Ability Haste
Using basic attacks or abilities on an enemy champion 3 time(s) within 4s grants Movement Speed and reduces the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Duration: 3s.
Movement Speed bonus: Melee - 40%-60% () | Ranged - 30-50% ().
Ability Haste: 25.
Cooldown: 12s
Aery
Poke, Protect
Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.
Damage: 10-60 () + 20% bonus + 10% .
Shield: 20-120 () + 40% bonus + 20% .
Aery cannot be sent out again until she returns to you.
Aery — The rune is perfect for champions who combine damage and support, such as Seraphine or Lux. It allows dealing extra damage to enemies or shielding allies. "Aery" is especially effective on heroes with strong ranged control, as it deals damage through attacks or abilities without risking retaliation. The rune is also useful in support roles, providing additional protection to allies in crucial moments.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Manaflow Band
Mana
Hitting an enemy champion with and ability or empowered attack permanently increases your max mana by 30, up to 300 mana.
Manaflow Band — The rune permanently increases your maximum mana with each hit on an enemy champion using an ability or empowered attack, up to a maximum of 300 mana. This rune is perfect for champions who frequently use their abilities and need more mana for efficient combat, such as mages or champions with high mana consumption.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.Skills Order
(Q) TIME BOMB
0.1s 60/65/70/75
Tosses a Time Bomb to a target location. The bomb sticks to the first unit which comes within a small area around it. After 3 second(s), it detonates, dealing 75 magic damage (75/150/225/300 + 75% ) to the target and nearby enemies. The bomb prioritizes champions and units that are already carrying a bomb.
Early detonation: Placing a second bomb on the same target detonates the first bomb, stunning enemies in the blast for 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 second(s).
Charge: Stores up to 2 charge(s). 12/11.5/11/10.5 second(s).
(Q) TIME BOMB
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
13/12.5/12/11.5s 35
Makes time flow faster for himself, applying Fleeting Time to himself and gaining a shield that absorbs 60 damage (60/85/110/135 + 45% ). Zilean also grants Fleeting Time and an identical shield to the nearest allied champion for 3 second(s).
Fleeting Time: Increases projectile speed by 60% and grants 25% Movement Speed (25/25/45/55% + 6% ).
While Zilean's Fleeting Time is active, his basic Ability Haste is increased by 80%.
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
(E) TIME WARP
25s 50
Creates a time-bending force field for 2.5 second(s). While within the force field, enemy champions are slowed by 20% (20/25/30/35 + 5% ) and projectiles by 80%.
(E) TIME WARP
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
90/80/70s 125/150/175
Places a protective time rune that lasts 5 second(s) on himself or an allied champion. If the rune bearer takes lethal damage during this time, they teleport back in time and become untargetable for 3 second(s) before they are revived and healed for 600 Health (600/850/1100 + 200% ).
If the rune bearer does not trigger the rune's revival effect, 15% of Chronoshift's cooldown will be refunded.
While being revived, the target becomes untargetable and invulnerable but cannot take any actions.
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
Mid ZILEAN Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Mid ZILEAN. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
Mid ZILEAN Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Mid ZILEAN in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Magic Resist
Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against ZILEAN combo.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed +350 Max Health +55 Magic Resistance
Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%. 2750
Force of Nature TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and magic resistance, and its “Absorb” passive stacks up when you take ability damage from enemy champions, reducing all incoming magic damage and granting bonus movement speed at max stacks. It’s perfect for tanks who need to withstand teams heavy in magic damage and maintain mobility to be in the right position during fights. Pick this up when the enemy team builds magic damage (e.g., Syndra, Brand) and you need extra movement speed to initiate effectively or escape dangerous situations.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield +55 Attack Damage +45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Mid ZILEAN Strengths and Weaknesses
Mid ZILEAN Strategy and Tactics
Wild Rift ZILEAN Ability and Tips
TIME IN A BOTTLE
TIME BOMB
WISTED TIMEFLOW
TIME WARP
CHRONOSHIFT
(PASSIVE) TIME IN A BOTTLE
90s
Stores time as Experience at a rate of 20/50/80 (level 1/5/10) XP per 5 second(s). Zilean can grant this Experience to the nearest allied champion when he has enough to complete their next level up by tapping the minion button. Doing so gives Zilean the same amount of Experience. Experience can only be imparted to allies who can level up. If Zilean takes damage or is crowd controlled while imparting Experience, the process will be interrupted.
Ability Tips
Video
(Q) TIME BOMB
0.1s 60/65/70/75
Tosses a Time Bomb to a target location. The bomb sticks to the first unit which comes within a small area around it. After 3 second(s), it detonates, dealing 75 magic damage (75/150/225/300 + 75% ) to the target and nearby enemies. The bomb prioritizes champions and units that are already carrying a bomb.
Early detonation: Placing a second bomb on the same target detonates the first bomb, stunning enemies in the blast for 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 second(s).
Charge: Stores up to 2 charge(s). 12/11.5/11/10.5 second(s).
Ability Tips
Video
(W) WISTED TIMEFLOW
13/12.5/12/11.5s 35
Makes time flow faster for himself, applying Fleeting Time to himself and gaining a shield that absorbs 60 damage (60/85/110/135 + 45% ). Zilean also grants Fleeting Time and an identical shield to the nearest allied champion for 3 second(s).
Fleeting Time: Increases projectile speed by 60% and grants 25% Movement Speed (25/25/45/55% + 6% ).
While Zilean's Fleeting Time is active, his basic Ability Haste is increased by 80%.
Ability Tips
Video
(R) CHRONOSHIFT
90/80/70s 125/150/175
Places a protective time rune that lasts 5 second(s) on himself or an allied champion. If the rune bearer takes lethal damage during this time, they teleport back in time and become untargetable for 3 second(s) before they are revived and healed for 600 Health (600/850/1100 + 200% ).
If the rune bearer does not trigger the rune's revival effect, 15% of Chronoshift's cooldown will be refunded.
While being revived, the target becomes untargetable and invulnerable but cannot take any actions.
Ability Tips
Video
Wild Rift ZILEAN Skills Combo
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Wild Rift ZILEAN Video
Watch here!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.