Talk:Zilean/@comment-9771997-20150504215611

Honestly, I feel like Zilean is destined to be a utility mid. Playing him in bottom lane, he's really mana hungry early, and he doesn't bring much to the lane compared to other supports until mid game when he can reliably spam skills to control the field. His stun is extremely unreliable, since the vast majority of people will immediately run out of range when they get the bomb on them, or stand away from the minion that has it. His E is god-tier, but it's not a hard cc ability, any flash or hard disengage just ruins it if there's a tower behind the enemy. I have mixed feelings about his ult; really, in a lot of the situations where you'd use it, there are other supports that could've prevented the situation entirely, and in the cases where that's not true(Like a 5 man gank), them getting back up won't save them 99% of the time. I feel like taking him into bot lane just drags out his weak-phase tremendously.

Playing in mid though you have very nice waveclear and quick leveling, though you don't have the most kill potential. In addition to that, R + E keeps you VERY safe at all phases of the game when you can use them selfishly(To put this into perspective, I E'd a charging Volibear who was coming at me from the side and literally walked past him. Got ganked by the fed Yasuo top + Leona, and after R res, popped E, flashed and got away). You can roam extremely fast, and your E makes roams devastating. Late game your E is basically a perma-wither, you burst for 600 +180% of your AP with two bombs + AoE stun(this turns into like 2k+ AoE damage full AP), and your ult has enough AP to full-hp restore most tanks.