Talk:Zilean/@comment-5077844-20141029214537/@comment-24937766-20141031133254

The only op thing about Zilean is his global passive, but that's already going to be reworked into a local one as it happened to Janna's and Twisted Fate's time ago, and maybe his E too comes really close to being op, that 55% slow/speed up that lasts 5.5 seconds every 3.5 once you have 40% cdr is very strong... everything else is actually fine. His Q and long aa range make his early strong, yes, but his Q being his only damage spell means you can abuse its cooldown to try to out trade or all-in him, which is not hard as you would think because his base stats are very low (he is one the most squishy champions of the game) and his kit does not have hard cc, escape or defensive tools (beside the ultimate of course), and also means his burst will scale worse and worse after level 8. Also remember he is insanely mana-hungry, as a mid laner he usually spends the first 1600 gold to get Tear and Chalice, as support he can't afford to spam bombs, unless he gets some early kills or assists and can get a Tear in his first back. His ultimate is impactful, yes, but it can baited easily and you can focus him to force him to ult himself (which is not what Zilean most of the times wants) and is nearly useless if his team is losing, because it only makes someone die twice instead of once.

Really, he is very annoying, ok, but once you learn how to abuse the gigantic weakness he has he can't appear op at all.