Talk:Zilean/@comment-219.79.212.177-20130112140843/@comment-98.195.217.136-20130113075918

Hes a melee support, for non traditional bot lanes like darius. Actually, darius is like his best friend, both as ally and enemy because zil counters him in lane. Goes like this, place jihad bomb on darius, speed darius up 55%, darius pulls in enemies and AoE swing, bomb explodes. Then you repeat steps. He is a great mid laner that counters most common mids, so hes a noob stomper in low ELO. His weakness on single lanes is sustainers like nid who is also probably his greatest weakness, then from there its uncommon mids like karma, and basically anyone with heal. He can do this because he can outrange most mids by using minions as a conduit to deal dmg and then of course because he can prevent dives, can dive, and has a amazing ap modifier on his spell which can make full use of ap runes and deal heavy dmg. Later game, his AoE dmg can really hurt enemy teams and you will find his support kit after you drop your payload to be valued by your team. If you mid, Id suggest starting Tome then kage with a healthy supply of  1:1 mana/hp pot ratio. Starting tome will allow you to make full benefit of runes in getting an early kill at lvl 3. If you build him right, you can reach 50+ ap at lvl 1 with 13 penetration. That combined with exhaust -10 resist and ignite to give another 5 ap is enough to take down 70-100%(depending on enemy champ starting hp) of their hp at lvl 3 as they will only have 7 mr. After kage, if you get a kill, I typically go toward an early spirit of elder lizard. It helps with last hitting and unlike most champs, it works for zil fairly well. Having 40-66 true dmg is like adding 100+ap when you calc modifier and mr for under 3K gold. Double bombing fits the over time dmg perfectly in delay so it benefits him well and the early regen is nice for staying in lane longer. Next patch, that item will also have a CD reducer of 10% to make it more uselful for him. O, and it also give him greater poking power in lane.