Time in a Bottle
Innate: Zilean generates 2 / 3.5 / 5 / 6 / 12 (based on level) experience (does not count towards his own level up) every 5 seconds. Time in a Bottle is on cooldown when the game starts and becomes disabled when Zilean and his allied champions have reached their maximum level.
When he has stored enough experience to level up an allied champion to their next level, he can select them to channel for 1.2 seconds after a 0.5-second cast time. The channel is interrupted and disabled upon entering combat with enemy champions or taking damage from turrets, placing it on a 10-second cooldown. If Zilean interrupts it himself, it is placed on a 1-second cooldown, increased to 2 if he used a basic attack against a turret to do so. Additionally, if Zilean becomes affected by any form of crowd control, the channel is placed on a 10-second cooldown.
A successful channel will grant an equal amount of experience to the ally for them to level up as well as to Zilean, with a combined minimum of 15% of the stored experience.
Zilean cannot initiate the channel while he is affected by cast-inhibiting crowd control or a lockout that disables abilities.
Notes (8)
- Time in a Bottle marks allied champions with two circles beneath them; the inner one represents how close they are to leveling up, turning golden when able to activate Time in a Bottle on them.
- The target allied champion is not required to be out of combat to be leveled up by Time in a Bottle - only Zilean is.
- Zilean only consumes the amount of experience required to level up an allied champion. He retains the excess for later use.
- The target allied champion is not required to be within range of Zilean for the channel to complete successfully, it will complete regardless of if they move to a far distance.
- The channel from Time in a Bottle is not interrupted even if the allied champion suddenly levels up. However, no experience will be granted to either player, and the passive will not go on cooldown.
- The following table refers for interactions while Zilean is channeling:
- Death
- Cast-inhibiting effects
Map-specific differences (4)
- Cooldown changed to 90 seconds.
- Cooldown changed to 90 seconds.
- New Effect: Zilean gains one level per cast.
- New Effect: After three combat rounds, stores an additional full level of experience.
