Talk:Zilean/@comment-4022742-20150224212253/@comment-4636093-20150224230522

It's mostly the targetting change to his Q which is the big deal I'm hyped about.

Making it ground targeted combined with the gargantuan range increase (at the expense of giving it notable travel time and making it dodgeable), means that Zilian's zone of control increases exponentially. Instead of it being "get within 700 range of him and he'll place a bomb on you", now the bomb itself is a zoning tool.

He can throw bombs into bushes to make anyone hiding in them to GTFO, he can throw them on the ground when he needs to waveclear so that they catch the minions as well as force the enemy much further away (instead of having to place them directly on the minions with more limits to the AoE damage). He can place them down in enemy's paths when they retreat, or in choke points they'll be forced to run over.

The targetting changes don't just make his range larger by however much they increased the cast range, they increased it by however far he can also move before the detonation.