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Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
THE CHRONOKEEPER
Official role
SUPPORT, MAGE
Lane
Support
Difficulty
Medium
Source tier
S

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE TIME IN A BOTTLE

Zilean stores time as Experience and can grant it to his allies. Zilean can impart this Experience on the nearest allied champion when he has enough to complete their next level up. Zilean receives as much Experience as he gives.

1 TIME BOMB

Tosses a bomb to target area that sticks to units that come near it, prioritizing champions and units already carrying a bomb. When it detonates it deals magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. If a Time Bomb is detonated early by another Time Bomb, it also stuns enemies. The Time Bomb can be recharged 2 times.

2 TWISTED TIMEFLOW

Makes time flow faster for himself, applying Fleeting Time to himself and gaining a damage absorbing shield. Zilean also grants Fleeting Time and identical shield to his nearest ally champion. Fleeting Time increases projectile speeds and grants move speed. Fleeting Time also increases Zilean’s ability haste.

3 TEMPORAL MIRAGE

Creates a time-bending force field at target location. Within the force field enemy champions and projectiles are slowed.

ULTIMATE CHRONOSHIFT

Places a protective time rune on Zilean or an allied champion. If the rune bearer takes lethal damage during this time, they teleport back in time and become untargetable before they are revived and healed. If the rune bearer does not trigger the rune's revival effect, a part of Chronoshift's cooldown will be refunded.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Ardent Censer
  2. Harmonic Echo
  3. Redemption
  4. Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 5reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.