Overview
Hero is strong and aggressive hero with the highest damage on towers. So he can easily destroy towers and the base and steal the victory.
Strengths
Zilong can deal a high damage and good lifesteal with high movement speed and attack speed.
Weaknesses
Stuns and cc effects.
Against heroes with high life steal or healing.
1- worrior boots: gives zilong high survivability in early game against physical damage heroes. 2- windtalker : is very important for zilong due to attack ,movement speed ,critical damage and some magical damage. 3- haas' claws: is good for attack speed after any critical damage, life steal and critical damage. 4- berserker's fury: is the most important item for zilong because it make critical damage very high with 25% critical. 5- blade of dispair: is very good item for zilong, it makes you delete any squishy hero in milliseconds and do high damage on tanky heroes. 6- sea halberd: to reduce the healing and armors effects against high lifestealing heroes or healers.
Against squishy team.
1- rapid boots: for high mobility. 2- blade of heptaseas: for killing in one hit.
Against team with some tanky heroes with low lifestealing.
1- swift boots: for high attack speed. 2- malefic roar: for high penetration.
This build if melissa against you.
Malefic gun: increase your range to slay melissa in her ult.
Fighter emblem
In my opinion zilong with fighter emblem is better than assassin emblem because it gives him high damage and survivability in the early game. (Against non-squishy hero in your lane).
This emblem against lesily in exp lane.
This emblem setup only if lesily against you in the lane (use the second build with it). Assassin emblem will give you high speed in early game to catch her.
Against squishy hero in exp lane.
To deal high damage with some survivability and delete any squishy hero (use it with second build)
Against dyrroth.
Weakness finder is good against dyrroth because you can drag him in early game into the range of the tower and make his movement slow so the tower can damage him for longer period.
Battle Spell
Best spell for zilong with high damage and attack speed.
Early game
In my opinion zilong is one of strongest fighters in the early game then start the game aggressive and try to take the first blood but beware of ganks when the first turtle time come or before it by short time. When you reach level 7 or 8 and you have destroyed the first tower in your lane start to gank in mid lane but don't be far from your lane to protect your towers. zilong is very strong in early game but be aware against heroes like yuzhong don't fight him in early game because he have high damage and life steal in his last buff. You can fight terezla in early game but be aware from him when he reach level 4. In late game team fights will be hard on zilong then try to push tower or destroy the base and steal victory or try to kill the mage or marks and be focus on squishies. Beware of stuns and cc because it is a weakness for zilong
Don't start the match with boots.
If you play exp lane don't start with boots start with damage knife or attack speed knife. If you play with zilong start with attack speed knife then buy the boots. It will make you stronger in first 2 minutes. Except if you against marksman in your lane start with boots to give you the ability to catch him.
Start with second skill.
If you play with zilong start with second skill don't start with first skill because second skill can regenerate rapidly by killing any thing. Except if you against dyrroth start with first skill to drag him into the range of your tower
Hide in the push.
In first fight with your opponent in the lane hide in the push near to your tower and wait for him to appear and start to attack minions in this moment attack him with second skill and try to take the first blood. Except if you against yuzhong don't touch him in early game because he now has high life steal due to his last buff so wait for your team to help you. And if you fight dyrroth don't touch him in early game and try to drag him with your first skill into the range of the tower. And if you against lukas don't hide in the push in first minute so go to the minions and try to drag him to you to hit him before he hit you with the third phase of his first skill.
Best With Yin
Zilong can counter yin in his ult by using the ult and escape from his range.
Watch Out For Yu Zhong
Yuzhong now is counter to zilong due to his last buff.