User blog comment:JuneReil123/RIOT PLEASE! BRING BACK SUPPORT ZILEAN!/@comment-9861173-20130523024232/@comment-5955640-20130523032907

Oh well. Zilean has a bigger impact when he plays mage. Because of the AP stacking. His revive is less like a guardian angel and more like a. I dunno. Full restore? Also the max CDR and high AP means bomb spamming that hurts for a lot and hurts quite often. So mage is ideal. Except for the part where one spell ends up not being put to use as it would exist to benefit an ally gearing up for a shot or chasing a fleeing target. And the other spell. Is an activate that should probably be a passive spell. And the whole thing. You have only one attack.

Which makes him the most passive support ever. I just now thought of this. But like Soraka. She can technically hurt people with Starcall and Infuse. But Zilean it's just the bombs. Which sounds like a depressing prospect and with plenty of champs who buff speed with more benefits. Slow opponents and do damage. Have very reliable skill shots and single target spells that do damage almost instantly after cast if not moments afterward. And lets not overlook how underwhelming getting revived could be when the standard support has like. Less than 150 AP. The damage would fall off like a stone too.

Unless one has a very specfic plan setup which includes someone who can play Zilean like a true pro. You probably shouldn't play Zilean as pure mage OR support. Which does harken to your cry for a support Zilean.