How a BRONZE Climbed To Challenger with ZILEAN SUPPORT

This is the story of BioticZilean, the now challenger Zilean Support main. Starting in Bronze in season 5, I tell the story of how he made it all the way to challenger.
This video is part lol documentary, part lol analysis. Includes a full zilean support guide for season 11, Zilean support challenger analysis, Zilean support items for season 11, zilean support runes for season 11. Everything you need to know to play zilean support in s11 at the level of a challenger with the new items. I talk about what support item to get on zilean, best build for support zilean, Imperial Mandate on zilean, Steel shoulderguards zilean, zeke's convergance zilean, mikael's crucible zilean, redemption zilean, zilean support boots, legendary item zilean for what may be the best support for season 11 guide.
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[@HappyChimeNoises]

So it turns out - Steel Shoulderguards and Relic shield are 2 different items, I had no idea. Biotic Builds RELIC SHIELD, not shoulderguards as his support item and will continue to do so in sesaon 11. Relic is basically the AP version of the item, that I forgot about at 7:40. Glad you all like the video otherwise! PS Join the Community discord.gg/NqEfsG3VMT + www.twitch.tv/happychimenoises :)

[@zhangbill1194]

Bruh, I was wondering if Biotic was on to some crazy strat where he builds ad or some shit

[@HappyChimeNoises]

haha my bad

[@zhangbill1194]

@Christian Rolls welecome to the club, there are dozens of us. Dozens!

[@MultiTwiins]

Bro, I've seen a couple of your videos. Really enjoy your content. Especially because there aint that many support focused content. You seem to do both. Good job. Critique though, your consistently not telling us the leveling order and the different leveling orders based on matchup.

[@HappyChimeNoises]

@@MultiTwiins

[@ThiccFish]

Good to see even at challenger they keep attacking the guy with the zilean ult on

[@TheClone]

Sometimes you must get an enemy to 0 HP even if they have the Zilian ult on them, so they get put in the revival status and you get away, ar at other times you're f*ed anyways, so it doesn't matter.

[@ruiwatanabe9823]

It's better to make the individual with zilean ult be resurrected rather than being ignored and continue to deal damage to the team.

[@Thejeanio]

The part where they didnt attack zilean because he ulted himself didnt go well for the enemy team anyways, he stunned them

[@Zolrain]

@@Thejeanio yeah i feel if they took him out much sooner and then waited for him to come back he wouldnt have gotten out or have died.

[@TheEmilarOMG]

It depends on the person being ulted, if he does really high damage then it is more worth killing him instead of waiting.

[@alcejaylos.4257]

The main reason why one tricking a champ gets you better at the game is because it practically removes the mechanical half of it. Once you've mastered the champ, there's no further room for improvement other than the game itself.

[@feed5981]

The one trick viego main: well yes but no

[@nojaodoggo2896]

@@feed5981 Damm

[@LimboTheory]

Facts. All i play is zil.

[@zileanmain4393]

@@LimboTheory I hope you enjoy playing me :P

[@danm2084]

I mained Anivia until I had 500k mastery and stopped playing league. Never made it past silver lol. But I sure did love that champ.

[@eloyrodier70]

wait, WAIT, i've met this guy, in a diamond ranked game, I was a tristana, he was support, and I ended up being 10/ 2/ 7, one of my most satisfying games

[@praharshapinninti8812]

I personally dont, and may not ever play zilean support. However, your introduction to Biotic and his sotry inspires me.

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thank you!

[@fengliu975]

worth trying it out for a chest

[@umbralbushido8636]

"and a lack of viable tank items" well that aged like milk

[@arroys8345]

except for the mythics and stoneplate the tank items are pretty shit

[@tahmkenchusta5852]

@@arroys8345 yeh

[@lanternno8491]

@@arroys8345 DMP, Force of Nature, Abyssal Mask, Thornmail, and Warmogs beg to disagree.

[@arroys8345]

@@lanternno8491 you have no idea of what you're talking about, force of nature is garbage and you're trolling if you build it, thornmail was nerfed and is barely useful if you don't take into account that it's mandatory because of all the healing in the game, abyssal mask doesn't do much and is much worse than it used to be and warmogs was already not a very good item last season and was nerfed, but yeah they all feel grat at least don't they ? ho, you didn't ear that ? yeah they feel complet shit to build and play as well, yeay !

[@lanternno8491]

@@arroys8345 depends on your characters tho. Abyssal is quite good into focusing someone out of team fight or scirmishes, it feels quite good to buiuld on tank supports. Force of Nature can be quite good into certain situations. Warmogs is also situational. The item can be good even if it isn't going to solve everything, y'know. Riot intended that items will become situational and they did sorta good job with this.

[@fabienb449]

As a Zil support main, I really enjoyed this video :)

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thanks!

[@11burbu]

Same here, I expect to get diamond this Year.

[@dracosol4415]

Please never stop playing Zilean support, the TRUE supports

[@biggord1399]

u bring steel shoulder guards? or relic shield

[@HappyChimeNoises]

@@biggord1399 Relic is correct

[@isaygaykacken]

I duo'd with that guy for a bit back in the day. He's a beast

[@lifeiaskedfor]

even if you're not a support main, or even will ever actually pick up zilean. There's one very important lesson here you can learn if you wanna climb like bitotic did. Keep your pool small, have 2 or 3 champs and stop playing random champs you don't know how to play or you're not great at. Honestly, the fastest way to climb is to one trick

[@doctorfryder4644]

That's what I'm doing and it is working, sort of. I play both top lane (2) and support (1), top lane primarily. I think I should focus on support more since it is a role that is actually fun to play. The only bad thing is that when the enemy bans 1st champ, and the 2nd one is countered by the enemy. Other than that, I would highly recommend to stick to 2-3 champs, maybe 4 at max.

[@lifeiaskedfor]

@@doctorfryder4644 when stuff like that happens, 100% don't be afraid to dodge. You lose like 3 lp vs. Losing 15-20

[@NakoTheTaco]

Choose to do that . Climbed from g1 to d3 in abount 90 games with ivern

[@Shm00ly]

@@lifeiaskedfor dodging is low key op for climbing.

[@kindredsong7363]

A friend played 83 different Champs last season in ranked, his matchhistory literally looked like he would fill and used "pick a random champ" xD

[@nicholayrichardson9668]

It's strange to look back a season or two to see that zilean sup was once off-meta. Nowadays it's so fairly common and makes so much sense.

[@vladislavkaras491]

Respect for such video! Especially, when you get your arguments and word directly from the player. Really appreciable!

[@Lilacil]

I LOVE zilean. I'm so happy i found this video. Interesting ideas! I've been thinking about changing my runes for a while because picking them around trying to get a lead in lane is so hit or miss with a duo lane. Can't wait to try their rune page.

[@PuppyGems]

thank you for this vid :) i was looking for a new support to play :)

[@susuum4369]

I'll watch this once I get into bronze

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Hope you get there soon 8)

[@Raizekusu]

@@HappyChimeNoises what if he meant rank down

[@HappyChimeNoises]

@@Raizekusu I believe he did

[@kal7335]

Thank you! Watching this gives me hope, I'm hardstuck diamond for 2 seasons now.

[@ummerkasana]

In lower elos i have found amazing success using aery. The enemy lane will let you auto + q them and your aery will see tremendous use. Additionally, i also go a more AP route. The new dark seal buff is extremely strong. Mandate + mejais + sorc pen boots allow you to have comparable power to a mid laner. After that oblivion orb for GW into cosmic for cdr. Higher elo build more supportive. Or void instead of cosmic drive if magic pen is needed asap

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Sounds good. Especially in preseason - high damage champions are dominating, so I bet it would be great. IMO by the start of season 11 after all the stats have been nerfed people will move to the supportive playstyle as it should be more effective everywhere.(I do think ap is more fun though)

[@microman900]

"without external teaching, like VOD reviews, Biotic may still be spamming games in bronze" this resonated with me...time to get to work

[@zeroday7878]

thats some seriously hard work, respect

[@Arachne64]

I'll definetely be trying out Zilean after watching this video, even tho I don't play support that much, great video!

[@HappyChimeNoises]

TY GLHF

[@nitram.9621]

Want to know how to climb in league? Pick one champ you like, but one that is not really that popular. Play that one champ, and only that champ in a role you feel comfortable in, while at the same time looking at what other high level one tricks do. Now play this champions at least 2 times a day for the whole year and by that time, you would have understood what your champ permits you to do and what and how it makes you win. This is the moment you hit a high rank.

[@decal4707]

can’t find any high rank AD shaco’s 😔 everyone else is playing AP

[@nitram.9621]

@@decal4707 idk i like ad shaco a lot, especially with HoB, galeforce etc but the biggest issue i find with ad shaco is that you need to build a tiamat to improve your clear speed, but i dont like building ravenous/titanic hydra so in the end its like 1200 gold spend really early in the game only to keep up with the clear speed of other champions, while they already built 50% of their powerspike mythical item. I dont know how it goes for ap shaco tho because ive not played it jungle for a long time.

[@decal4707]

@@nitram.9621 if you have a solid early game leash (i made up a leash where boxes take raptors and you get a leash red at the same time), you can early gank a lane or invade and snowball your lead without having to build Tiamat :P

[@nitram.9621]

@@ShihTzuVideosTV i agree with you, while i think one tricking is the fastest way to climb, i too couldnt play the same champ every single game. I think we are cursed by the "jack of all trades, master of none" mentality.

[@b21martosvhenzkirbym.29]

This channel has quality content but ultimately underrated 😔

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thank you!

[@Puppyboy98]

Always great to see a fellow zilean main

[@mtn66amassuonoobpawa35]

thank you sooo much, I'm zil otp and I was fucking lost with new items, it will definitely help me

[@myboomstick-dx8sg]

Now, I'm inspired to play Zilean. Imma climb this season with support.

[@SurBENTLEYonVR]

I climbed from bronze to gold 2 as a Zilean support last season, Dropped him though but I'm glad someone has mastered him, he was personally one of my favorite champs in the game

[@mw2soccerstar23]

love these challenger account review vids

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thank you! I am editing 3 more right now ready to upload soon :)

[@tacofacefart]

If you have a big front line, I think its worth going burst. Otherwise this is a really good zilean player.

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Good call, I think if you can get in a good position to land bombs then AP can be great, and yeah tank frontline can help with that. But also tank frontline works great with supportive zilean as you can spam speed + use ult to make them even tankier

[@samohearne4931]

@@HappyChimeNoises imperial mandate also adds damage to zils E so it can help for that extra bid of damage

[@pandasempie]

Keep making videos bro I love your content

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thanks! I have 3 more that I am working on right now

[@highnoon2844]

I can feel this channel's subscriber spike coming soon >_>

[@matheusgomes5857]

nice video, keep it up

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thanks!

[@katharinak.1630]

I love this series!!!

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Thanks! New one out on friday :)

[@delincwent]

Saw this video today. Said to myself, I'm Silver 4 so what harm can it do in trying something different on my main. QUALITY STUFF!! I'm on my way to challenger now too. I'm shout you out when I make it :P

[@Pabs-bg6gf]

This gives me hope.

[@Max-ht9nn]

I hit challenger with zilean this season too, on EUNE server currently 1100 LP! I never played zilean before in ranked that much tho, this was my first season playing him and it made me challenger !

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Nice one

[@Underdog74745]

I realize you arent gunna care as much but i really enjoy the mario backdrop music for your vids, they are so calming

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Same here :)

[@bradleylloyd4165]

love the mario water level music

[@kylephan1895]

After a whole years and this is the only normal dude playing this game like how it should.

[@Meijin1]

respect

[@TheGarfield1337]

I feel like I should really give this old man a try... I've always liked champions with a very passive lane phase (due to very poor mechanics on my side tbh) and not having to go aggressive but still being useful later.

[@weslar7]

Love the mario 64 in the background

[@speiicheck4975]

whos gonna tell him

[@oscarelenius4801]

@@speiicheck4975 its good music so i think he has the right mindset atleast

[@fell5209]

I thought it was galaxy

[@fell5209]

Nvm it is Mario galaxy

[@weslar7]

@@fell5209 Did you play 64?

[@sallahfaiselel-kahir651]

And here i am getting into games with adcarries who don't know how to back

[@onebeets]

Some player: climbs from bronze to challenger with zilean me trying it: *fails miserably*

[@BezmenovWasRight]

You trying it: Play 3 games and give up.

[@DoOmIsMyNamePWI]

Me 33 games with Zilean 69,7% winrate. Consistency is the key.

[@mattiiful]

this was the build I went for before the item changes, with the required mythic item I dropped so hard because I get bursted down so easily :(

[@palo1475]

Really enjoying the way you're narrating these videos (nohomo) =D

[@HappyChimeNoises]

haha thanks

[@marcosinclan2775]

4:00 WERLYBBBBBB

[@Stealingoxygen]

Zillian is slept on

[@LogiEspacio]

Didn't HappyChimeNoices made like a another video of Zilean last year? Or I'm having a mandela effect cuz i can't find it anywhere

[@HimariHimatsu]

something i think you should have mentioned in the video is his ability order as it's sort of a debate if you should max W or E second, unless you did mention it somewhere and i completely missed it regardless good video as usual

[@bioticzilean5489]

3 points Q, 3-4 Points E and than W max. Zilean is very unique there.

[@HappyChimeNoises]

ty for reminder, forgot for this video, will make sure to keep it in future ones.

[@Keksten]

@@bioticzilean5489 U Suck at Zilean, not even 2.6 mil mastery points

[@xaniyat9491]

@@Keksten bruh

[@ProdOutlandish]

I fucking love this channel

[@zyfryth]

In lower elo-s You can actually play sorcery domination Zil support. Ultimate hunter is bonkers on zilean... We are looking at some 20s cd-s...

[@SamraK64]

I played Kled adc with a Zilean supp. Was in silver but god did we have fun

[@lieutenant_rtda9675]

I miss Season 5 honestly. The good old days when i was 7 years old playing the toxic TOXIC days of League

[@tgvyhb8475]

wow what a great champ they should make heimer more support like like zilean

[@deomarkpilapil594]

the bgm for season 11 explanation is so troll hahah

[@Zim7787]

I love zilean

[@yashayasuo]

Zilean support main rise up!

[@zyklan2197]

i played against him in flex and just want to say he plays flex to warm up his apm and mechanics so just adding to that video yeah hes really serious about improving and winning

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Great idea - especially if you are going into a soloq promo series

[@Kaylsu]

I have 1.2 Million on Zil still on Master Tier I really enjoyed this video

[@simonschulz4401]

You know this is a season 10 video, when you hear that Darius lacks mobility. :)

[@inari3298]

Gotta love the super Mario galaxy soundtrack

[@bartoszkobierski9255]

Can someone tell me where to find challanger vod's for certain champions. I have no idea where did this guy find them.

[@oddperson8427]

I main zilean and just had to click this vid

[@georgeindestructible]

800K Zil here, his R often is being taken out of context and is also done in this video so i have to clarify, even though he can revive you with it, you have to die in the first 5 secs he casts it on you, that is plenty of time for the enemy to pull a number of tricks to make his R useless, and other thing is, it takes 3 sec to revive, which again, assuming you get to proc it and revive, if you are in an unpredictable situation you are likely stuck there for 3 secs only to die after being revived by it, thus unless you can predict what the enemy will do and you are like +80% sure, as a Zil you end up no using your R and the ally would which would die anyway does. The worst part of this is again, if that ~20% suddenly flips for you, you still get your R wasted most of the time because your target will be killed anyways. So, essentially his R can either be extremely useful or extremely useless, most of the time at least, and of course depending on the situation.

[@Treptex]

seeing this video now while zilean is one of the highest winrate supports in the game

[@justoalvarez3940]

It must be the saddest experience to be dived by a Zilean with his Draven buddy... Brutal...

[@oswaldo0515]

R/Zilean mains are rejoicing

[@nudikprudik9887]

just played full ap zilean support and had the highest damage in my team, and im looking for more strategies

[@ratchet6909]

1:03 wow that's a lucky finish to the season.

[@xXDXDXDDDXXXXDxDXDxdXDdDXDXDXD]

5:44 you could have photoshopped rocket boosters on that tank

[@lukeyuan1495]

'He didn't get S+ first game' Me: First time Zilean Me: hmm S+ cool i'll try to play him

[@thalesvondasos]

"How a Bronze Player T-posed Himself to Challenger"

[@AllahsStrongestSoldier]

Whats the song that plays at around 2:55? It is very calming.

[@Clbull118]

Funny thing is, a tank build like this has a huge win rate in Season 14 years later.

[@cjnwangwu6897]

Do you know what his thoughts are on Glacial + EverFrost and the catch potential involved in doing so? Does he think it's worth playstyle.

[@HappyChimeNoises]

I think guardian is needed for zilean to survive lane in most matchups, very similar to how bard has started to take it as he only needs to survive lane. I will check with him about everfrost, but I would assume he doesnt think it is needed and would prefer to go more supportive. It seems that might be the best playstyle for season 11 support rather than the high dmg playstyle of the past, especially with how OP locket should be. For sure it should be great for mid zilean to replace hextech glp though.

[@bioticzilean5489]

I think that Glacial is pretty much Dead in Season 11. In Season 10 it was still playable but a lot weaker then the Guardian Peel playstyle. The animation seems very clunky and its insanely expensive.

[@nigus2260]

What happened to biotic? I miss his playstyle, nowadays all zilean players go aery rushing greavious wounds item and zhonyas for 2nd and 3rd item…(and Q max instead of E)

[@layfonal1889]

Now I actually want to play Zilean again but not to climb but I just remember how much bullshit you can do with the new haste system and his ult. Annoying people to the max with it hahaha

[@findout2655]

Yesterday I kited a sett so hard he ragequited... I double bombed and slowed him 3x which was enough for my adcarry get to me and pickup the kilk

[@user-cc5kl7qv8f]

i just had a game where i had a 27 sec ult cooldown due to cloud dragons, best game of my life

[@shacochad7052]

i started to climb with Zilean support i am for the first time silver lol he is fun to play

[@jhineko7014]

Small pool champ is op i got from silver to platinum with only zilean and sona ,only lose like 5 matches

[@yonyosef]

thebausffs plays zilean support in euw challenger

[@hiddien639]

I got the same story. I was midlaner, silver 1 bout 3 months ago. So I mastered Lulu (bout 6 videos 4-5 hours) and now im diamond 4. It took me like 1 week?

[@Oromium]

i cant even even get out of bronze 1 with my zilean pro plays.

[@lutherrunner9828]

love these videos but I could never do this, my inting adcs would stack the deck too much

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Well he is streaming right now so why not go ask him for help! - www.twitch.tv/bioticzilean

[@lutherrunner9828]

@@HappyChimeNoises I am busy right now but gave him a follow, I main jung adc anyway but cheers!

[@corey4583]

yoo people SLEEEEEP on zilean. he is a A PAIN IN THE ASS to play against

[@sonnyjimenez3038]

@ 3:02 what emote is that how do you get it?

[@fabianpfohl1540]

I know this guy

[@miracleman9467]

"Bro my mechanics suck :(" ... Hits challenger on thresh

[@zin2341]

your voice's resemblance to boyinaband is uncanny

[@TheGeorge980]

The guy I was not really good. Meanwhile he managed to became challenger 3 season later ...

[@xdalex2475]

Make a Yasuo one please

[@iJayx]

5:22 Lulu: am I a joke to you?

[@korcidiamond3623]

Lulu gives 30% movementspeed (+5% per 100 AP)... Zilean gives 99% at Level 5. So whos the joke

[@gabrielcuevas1605]

4:19 werlyb v:

[@kiariafortuna4104]

Plot twist : Every challenger were bronze

[@kevinhobbs125]

Climbing on support is about being consistent, aware, and very lucky.

[@bowelcramps]

I'm 3.1 million mastery to date. Wish I wasn't bad and not in plat. Love to all the time daddys.

[@chrisgrudge6964]

I haven’t played lol in years and thinning of getting back in. One question why is xin zhao considered a hyper carry now?

[@paarungstanz-der-beautiful128]

no

[@Alexander-LH]

Does Imperial Mandate not work on zilean Q stun?? I tested it in Practice tool, slow deals damage. Immobilization (Q stun) does not deal extra damage. at level 7 - Mandate gives 40 ap = 274 dmg 2 books (40 ap) = 274 dmg

[@HappyChimeNoises]

Could be a bug that is worth reporting to riot. It should work, I dont know why riot would make it so that it didnt on zilean

[@mr.spielefreak7075]

4:05 😏

[@prexeno]

He pressed r on mid lane

[@lichwood4429]

um. I like your content, and I'm very glad you frequently upload, but this is clear clickbait. The title is misleading AF. He wasn't a Bronze Player who climbed to Challenger with Zilean Support. He was a Former Challenger / Diamond Player who cilmbed to Challenger a second time with Zilean Support. :/

[@darkshock42mlg05]

If anything is I actually saw a video on a 0% of one rate zillion support who will actually landed the fuck out of his bombs. Rossboomsocks was confused as to why he gad a 0% wr.