LoL Classic - Zilean Support Build

Changes For Classic

• Time Bomb is point and click
• Heightened Learning grants experience to his entire team

How to Play

Your main goals while playing Zilean Support are to remain somewhat safe at all times, as you’re easy to kill. Throughout the laning phase, look to bully the enemy down with your Q, while remaining safe and free from poke by standing behind the minion wave to block incoming spells. 

When you get level 4, your Q will deal more damage, which is going to help will poking, and you might want to start spamming your Q. However, you need to keep an eye on your mana bar at all times as Zilean is quite mana hungry with his bombs. 

When you get to level 6, and throughout the game, you should reserve your Ultimate for key carries to bring them back to life. Try to put yourself in a position where you’re never really forced to use it on yourself.

Runes Explained

Zilean is an AP champion and in the Support role, we want to maximise damage output with his Q. So, we should take AP Pen Marks as this is going to make his Q really hurt throughout the game. If he uses it on a champion without any MR, it could deal a lot of damage as the game goes on. Armor Seals are up next. It is recommended to take them as Zilean is quite squishy, and it will help to keep us alive vs enemy AD auto attacks. We need to take MR Glyphs to protect us from AP damage from the enemy Support/Mid as well.

For Quints, your best bet is AP Quints, as it is going to increase your Q damage output.

Masteries Explained

For Zilean Support, it is recommended to go 21 points in the offensive tree as this is going to increase his damage output throughout the game. As we are going to build AP items and go full damage, it makes sense to go for this tree. 

There are a lot of options for our secondary Masteries, but we are going to take 9 points in the utility tree as it is going to provide us with more utility throughout the game. Specifically, the extra mana is going to help reduce our chances of running OOM throughout the laning phase.