Talk:Zilean/@comment-12314620-20140724135849/@comment-5955640-20140724191637

Lulu is a top pick because she has a ton of utility (slow, knockup, Speed up, bonus on hit damage, polymorph/silence, and a health boost that creates an AOE slow). Far more than Zilean and self peel. Getting ganked in mid pre level six for Zilean is pretty much a death sentence and depending on the jungler even after level six they will just wait out the ult and or revive animation.

I have played teams with Zilean and as a Zilean and usually he loses his lane when the enemy mid laner is much stronger than him due to having gap closers that circumvent the weakeness of being slowed and the immeidate burst as opposed to the more timed explosions. If they have sustain the bombs become less effective and it's your only form of damage.

Zilean will lose our teamfights because he just revives one person and bomb a couple people meanwhile Ziggs or Katarina blows a whole team up with their spells and that one person who was lucky enough to get revived on them just gets picked off when they become targettable again.

There are champs who are far more loaded with damage and utility and thus making them a more safer pick.

Again in organized ranked team matches it's not hard to get a Zilean to be useful in but Solo Queue and even in normal matches you just get match ups where the enemy laner roams and kills your allies because you don't have the mobility or damage early game. The jungler camps your lane because it's an easy kill for most of them (slow is a joke form of self peel against champs like Vi and Master Yi).