[2023] It has been 2750 days since Zilean received his own kit or balance changes

I forgot to make this thread 250 days ago, but this seems like a round enough number.

Zilean was reworked into his current form on patch 5.4. On patch 5.21, he received his current passive, Time in a Bottle, which allows him to grant a level up to an ally when he's accumulated enough stacks of experience. On patch 5.22, his mana regen was buffed. On patch 5.23, his ult was made to feel slightly better by making sure it always gave a minimum of 15% of the experience he had stored.

And that's it. Zilean has essentially gone untouched since patch 5.23. He has not had his own patch note section, to my knowledge, in about 7.5 years, or about 393 weeks.

The only changes he's received have been a couple of bug fixes, and as a throw in to system wide changes (system wide MR adjustments on patch 7.9, system wide armor adjustments with Runes Reforged on patch 7.22, system wide base stat rounding cleanup on patch 8.3, system wide mana adjustments on patches 8.9 and 10.23, durability update on patch 12.10). Nothing where he would essentially need his own header in a patch notes.

Some fun facts to show how long ago this was:

• Zilean's last update was Illaoi's release patch. Jhin, Aurelion Sol, and Taliyah were not yet in the game. 35 champions have been released in this time.
• Dominion still existed as a game mode.
• Poppy, Shen, and Taric had not yet been reworked into their current forms.
• Doublelift's departure from CLG had been announced, but he had not yet played for TSM. CLG was the only team he'd played for in LCS at this time.
• Bjergsen had only played one professional game of Zilean. Of his 48 career Zilean games, 47 have seen the champ essentially untouched.
• CoreJJ was still an AD Carry.
• Groovy Zilean had not yet been ruined in the splash art adjustment on patch 6.8 when the Chinese splash arts and rest of the world splash arts were made the same.
• There was that one patch where no farm Kleptomancy Zilean top was a thing.
• Zilean went over 1600 days without a skin, and then went over 1000 days AGAIN without a skin, somehow reaching the 1000 day mark twice.
• Barack Obama still had another year left in his presidency.

I'd love to see Riot remember this champion exists. There are things that can be done. Most notably improving his passive. It feels bad to use. Teammates don't know how it works. They run away, or when you start channeling it, they think they need to stay next to you, even though they don't. It's too easy to accidentally start channeling, which helped cost C9 a game at Worlds in 2018.

I'd love to see some improvements to how he works. I struggle to believe that 393 weeks ago, they just completely nailed the changes and he never needed to be touched again.