Zilean Support Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Items
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Flash
Spell 2
Heal
How to play
Land two bombs on the same target Your 1st ability stores two bomb charges. Land both on the same target to stun nearby enemies, ideally after slowing the target with your 3rd ability.
Keep your speed and shield for danger Your 2nd ability shields and speeds up an ally, while your 3rd ability creates a slowing field. Use them to help your teammate escape an approaching enemy.
Use your revive just before lethal damage Your ultimate revives an ally if they die while it is active. Cast it on the teammate being focused just before the lethal hit.
Guide author
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Strengths
- His double bomb is both poke and a wide area stun, zoning the enemy duo and punishing anyone who clumps to engage.
- Chronoshift (Ult) revives your carry, turning losing all-ins into even trades and wasting any support built around one burst window.
- Twisted Timeflow (2nd) gives the duo constant tempo: a shield and speed on both of you, plus sharply reduced cooldowns so the next stun and the next Mirage (3rd) come back fast.
Weaknesses
- Extremely squishy and slow, so one hook or hard engage that lands before his bombs arm usually kills him.
- His protection is reactive and telegraphed, and a baited ultimate or dodged stun leaves him with nothing for a long stretch.
- No hard lockdown beyond the bomb stun, so mobile engage that sidesteps it leaves him unable to start anything.
Zilean Support Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Zilean Support, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Support income for a champion who is stockpiling experience rather than contesting minions.
BOOTS
Ability haste, since his value is how often his bombs and his revive are available.
CORE BUILD
Time Bomb (1st) completes the quest from safe range, and the upgrade's haste helps Zilean cycle double bombs, speed boosts, and his revive more often.
Twisted Timeflow (2nd) can spread 30% of healing or 35% of shielding to another nearby ally. If nobody else qualifies, the original target receives the extra protection.
Twisted Timeflow (2nd) automatically reaches the nearest ally as well as Zilean, so using it to accelerate an ADC also gives that carry Ardent's attack speed and on-hit damage.
Twisted Timeflow (2nd) shields an ally while making Zilean's basic cooldowns recover 80% faster. Staff adds more ability haste and ability power to that same high-tempo casting window.
Build this when the enemy has a hook or point-and-click stun, since a caught Zilean cannot revive himself.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
Build this when the enemy duo heals through his bombs. Buy Oblivion Orb early, since the anti-heal works from the component.
Build this when the enemy has shields that keep absorbing his bomb damage.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Aery follows his shield as well as his bomb, so it pays out on both halves of what he does.
PRIMARY
His bombs can hit enemy champions, healing him and the lowest-Health allied champion nearby when the rune is ready.
He is immobile and gets focused first, and this covers the burst thrown before his ultimate is up.
His shield and his revive are both protective effects, so a flat increase to healing and shielding suits his kit.
SECONDARY
Ability haste means more bombs and a faster revive, which is the only stat that changes his impact.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Revitalize when crowd control is a bigger threat than stronger heals and shields. Its tenacity shortens most disables and grants temporary defenses while immobilized. The shorter disable protects Zilean's narrow chance to place Chronoshift (Ult) before the target takes lethal damage.
Take this over Transcendence against teams that repeatedly commit divers or fight around objectives. Shorter Time Bomb (1st) and Chronoshift (Ult) cooldowns help Zilean threaten another control setup and prepare his ally-saving ultimate for the next fight.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Flash
Must take. He is slow, squishy and has to walk forward to land his bombs, so Flash is his only escape.
Heal
His ultimate brings a carry back, but that is on a long cooldown and it happens after they die. This keeps them alive in the fights where it is not ready.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 11st Ability
Q - 22nd Ability
W - 33rd Ability
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Zilean Support Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Zilean Support, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked, plus the duo partners that pair best with this pick.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Blitzcrank
One hook ends you, but his single telegraphed engage walks straight into your stun, your poke punishes him for stepping up at all, and Chronoshift (Ult) undoes the one pick his whole kit exists to land.
Veigar
Veigar is the most immobile thing in the lane, so your shared speed burst sidesteps his cage while your bombs out-range his setup. Even a landed combo on your carry gets undone by your ultimate.
Leona
Leona's lane is one long commitment and your kit punishes commitment: the slow makes her engage arrive late, the stun catches her landing, and Chronoshift (Ult) revives whoever she spent everything to kill.
Braum
Unbreakable (3rd) can intercept a thrown Time Bomb (1st), so aim around Braum or attach the bomb to an ally or minion before it reaches his shield. Chronoshift (Ult) still punishes the single target his team commits to killing.
Senna
Every soul she wants is a walk into bomb range, so your poke punishes the collection all lane long. Her slow attrition plan also collapses against an ultimate that undoes the one kill she works toward.
Zilean Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Thresh
Thresh's hook, lantern, and flay (3rd) are all aimed at the slowest support in the lane, which is you. One landed grab pulls you out of position before your bombs or ultimate can answer.
Milio
Milio answers your whole kit: his ultimate cleanses the double-bomb stun, his range matches your poke with less mana strain, and his heals mean nobody dips low enough to need your revive.
Karma
Her poke comes out faster than your bomb cooldowns, her shield absorbs the chunk you stack two spells to land, and her speed boosts carry the whole duo out of your stun.
Soraka
Every bomb you land gets healed back, and her silence zone lands on the exact spot you cast from. Your revive is a one-time swing while her healing is constant, and constant wins lanes.
Synergies
The Dragon lane is a 2v2, so the carry you queue with matters as much as the matchup. These carries make the most of what this support provides.
Ashe
Twisted Timeflow (2nd) increases Ashe's movement and projectile speed, making her arrows harder to sidestep, while Chronoshift (Ult) lets her take aggressive firing positions. Her slows also make your double bomb easier to attach.
Sivir
Double speed ults create the fastest engage-disengage loop in the game, and your revive turns her teamfight utility into two fights of value.
Zeri
Twisted Timeflow (2nd) adds movement and projectile speed while Zeri is trying to maintain Lightning Crash's (Ult) Overcharge, and Chronoshift (Ult) underwrites the aggressive wall rides her kit wants to take.
Zilean Support Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Zilean Support, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.