User blog comment:JuneReil123/RIOT PLEASE! BRING BACK SUPPORT ZILEAN!/@comment-1488423-20130523160116

As a Zilean player I find this post disturbing. The AP ratios on his Q and R are too good to just build him pure support. A good Zilean in mid will use his bombs to farm and zone his enemy without ever being within retaliation distance.

His bombs may fall off in terms of team fighting late game, but so what? He still brings a lot of utility and his bombs will still do a lot of damage and are still great for pushing lanes. There are other mid laners who are used for more utility than damage late game, such as.