NERf paladins!!!!!................ Wait what game is this?????

While we are at it lets nerf "QQ"

I figured that was the case. One way or another they could always have it effect itself and just adjust the cd. Its a pretty minor thing to gripe about. The problems allllll in the ulti.

we are nudging up the CD a bit at some point in the next month -- not sure when it gets into the patch.

Picking champions to counter him is a pretty silly solution seeing as the only game mode we have right now is blind pick. If cryophoenix could turn into an egg three times a minute, and all of the other people on cryophoenixes team could do it as well, your comparison would be apt. Recall affecting itself along with stacked -cooldown gear/runes/masteries truly does make this champion appear to be fundamentally broken in design.

You know what I think would be cool? Changing his ulti to work like Nerubian Weaver, only targetable. Instead of rezzing a person when they hit zero, it teleports them back 6 seconds in time and heals them a little. This would be a lot less useful than his current ultimate, but could potentially be better. Would make the stakes much wilder.

It would be awesome.

I think his ultimate should have a low duration. Maybe 5 seconds. When a champion has Zil's utlimate, they are going to die soon anyways. Making the duration lower makes his ultimate more specific to "I know I'm going to die from this next spell or burst of DPS" occassions, instead of allowing Zilean to give a teammate 15 seconds more to live -- given your team doesn't focus the guy with Zilean's ultimate. I always try to wait until his Zil's ultimate wears off and focus some squishy instead.

Time bomb does draw aggro but Zilean has to still be in range once it goes off. You are not hurt once the bomb is on you only when it goes off and this is what draws the attention. And I hope no one is dumb enough to still be in range once that bomb goes off >.>

I think bumping up recalls cd is enough to balance this out.

I just hope you dont make the only champion I enjoy playing a wreck....
I say this because without the ability to use recall to cast time bomb and time warp we are without a decent damage ability for a while. Our time bomb does at most 500-600 damage end game and this is nothing compared to other classes like Teemo, Ashe, Twitch...etc where they can easily get 500+ damage per auto attack. If recall if nerfed any we will actually be waiting (as zilean) for a good 3+ seconds were we can do nothing ..and are auto attack is a laugh in battle. We use recall simply because we have to in order to do anything. Maybe lower the cooldown on time warp and time bomb and increase it on recall (I assume the main problem with recall is because it effects itself and a little to much on chronoshift) so just make recall not effect itself and lower recalls cooldown to 5-10 secs and make it still effect ulti. That would balance out the constint use of recall as it would no longer be a 2 sec cooldown and would make chronoshift non spammable.

Edit; I literally just walked into my brothers room (Xeirus) and just saw an Ashe do two side-by-side 1,3** auto attack (didn't get to see last two numbers) damage crits totally demolishing a player....