Talk:Zilean/@comment-1876049-20151106152735

Okay, having played with Zilean now that he's free this week...

Is it just me, or does his passive feel super underwhelming?

I mean, I get the concept, and in theory it feels super awesome (You get a level! And you get a level! Everybody gets a level!), but the execution is pretty... meh?

First, it has a humongously long cooldown, which means that you're only going to use it sparingly.

Second, it's somewhat counterintuitive. You're supposed to hoard experience, but often you're only going to be able to level-up someone who's pretty close to leveling up themselves (about a few minion kills away), which means that in the end you just saved them a few seconds.

And then, in turn, even if you only spent a small amount of your stored experience to level them up, you still have the gigantic 120 seconds cooldown, which means that the rest of your hoarded experience is going to sit there for a long time. And you don't acumulate it fast enough that when it comes off cooldown you're guaranteed to be able to level up someone.

Third, the out of combat restriction is pretty dumb. I've lose more than a couple chances to level someone up because I was in combat and they leveled up on their own before I got to use the passive. Which kinda relates to the second problem.