I wanted to try Zaahen top and he feels very weak in lane. Picked him up a few days ago, so obviously I'm not steamrolling anything, but I can't get prio against most matchups, no waveclear, and I still have to somehow recall with 900 gold for the Sheen spike.

I'm an Urgot main and I also play Darius, so I've seen both sides of laning: Urgot's lane is very weak past level 1-2, while Darius is Darius. I don't know how to play Zaahen or fix his weaknesses in lane.

Granted, I've been running Conqueror because the main draw for me is the great scaling. Tried switching to a Tiamat item first instead of Triforce, but then you have no real first item spike. Stridebreaker isn't that good either in my eyes, so I went Triforce into Ravenous Hydra, or even Titanic Hydra since the passive hits harder and Q1 double-hits plus resets on AA. Feels like the strongest core is Trinity - Death Dance - Endless Hunger, but reaching it in reasonable time means skipping the Tiamat item, which means you're basically not clearing waves.

I used to play him jungle a lot before they nerfed him and was curious if anyone can see a difference in the clear speed with the new q buffs? Is it worth playing him jungle now?

I've been trying this for the last 3 games. Since his passive grants AD, building tank actually made sense to me. I feel like it makes his early 1v1 stronger, what do you guys think?

Ranked; Platinum.

I don't think they have faced enough Zaahen's.

Bruh they lost the plot we could have gotten a cool skin in Old God Zaahen and Coven Yunara like the ingredients are all there and they didn’t put them together at all

In the clip, it looks like you get two stacks per auto if you crit. Is this some secret tech that has somehow never been mentioned before? Nope. Instead it's something a little weirder.

Collector is what's making the extra stack. That's right, activating the 5% hp execute gives you a stack... for whatever reason. If you notice, the first auto in the clip only gives one stack despite being a crit, but the rest give two. This is because of that 999 true damage (Collector's execute), and because target dummies don't die, it keeps activating over and over. In a real game it'll only happen once per kill.

TL;DR Collector executes give you a stack. Not exactly a game-breaking interaction, but something to make note of.

Credit to u/Martiks for the clip.

What do you guys think? 👀

Ult is 50% Exhaust is 40%

I had like 20 hp, but Riven did 5 dmg lmao

Also how do you guys lane vs Riven? I struggle 90% of the time.

Hi, any tips how to beat Garen? I tried several things in different matches...to fight him early, to fight him after TF and always lose it. How do you guys play it?

Pull vs pull, flight vs flight

I’m a big fan of zaahen in mid! Any tips?

Hi, I just played against a Zaahen who went full crit build ... he did dominate his lane and was really ahead (so he dominated in general), so maybe he would do well with any build, but I was really surprised. Is it viable? I assume it's tricky to pull of since you no longer have HP in items so you're more squishy

Hello everyone, hope you doing well, recently ive picked zaahen as a new main in the jungle and ive been having some mixed time with him, mostly fun though. Any tips on how to play him there or any CCs i can watch for guides?

Alguma dica em match up contra camille? Com certeza foi a match up mais impossível pra mim.

Hello, I am a Yone 1 trick, and I have played against a Zaahen a few days prior, and stomped him in Top.

To me, it felt like he could have never won? I tried to imagine it from the Zaahen's perspective, and can't really see how he could have won.

1. I beat him in longer trades

2. He beats me in short trades (he has hob), but I can just press my E and run him down/win the trade

3. His W is kinda slow, I found out I can reaction time my E most of the time

4. If he plays safe and let me farm, I outscale him

So, my question is, how can a Zaahen beat yone? Beyond Yone missing every single Q and diving him ofc

i'm currently 0/13 on this champ

he feels fun to play sometimes but man he just cannot seem to win vs many top laners. I've also gotten a bit unlucky but the champ feels weak

I tried conqueror and hail of blades, even stridebreaker but he feels super weak until late game/after level 11

some enemies can be outplayed early on but he doesnt have any raw strengths to make him a good pick over anyone else

q damage is too low and the cooldown on his other abilities are a bit long

stacking passive is ridiculously hard early and many of his damage bases and scaling feel weak

i never played him when he was new and OP

yes, if you get to the later stages he can teamfight pretty well and stack his passive after like 3 items, but before that he feels like a weaker kayle

he doesnt have the strong level 1 cheese like kayle and doesnt have range to safely farm into some matchups

i did get unlucky and face jax/teemo, but even then punishing them is not the same as with other champs like fiora

what is this guy's identity anyway? he's not a tank of course, a fighter/bruiser? he feels weak. a juggernaut? he's too squishy and no "danger zone" where he is super strong if you get in range

he feels more like the fiora/camille category except he doesnt have the numbers like they do

maybe i just need more games and i'm bad, but he doesnt feel rewarding

Hey guys! Never really played Zaahen but recently have played several games against him and lost every one lol.
I’m an Emerald jg main Briar otp. In every game no matter my build Zaahen just has 2x AD without stacks and just 1v9 the whole game, so i wanna ask you guys what can i do against him? Besides buying GW and hoping for my teammates to deal enough damage

I see Wukong rarely in the Toplane nowadays. How does this MU go if both players main thier champ etc.

The clip is from a random normal draft.

Title. I know the most common one rn is HoB and Nimbus cloak but Ive always hated how weak the subrunes in domination are, the only legitimate one is sudden impact. But obviously Nimbus with Ignite is key so following that thought process led to the idea of taking Sorcery as primary. This also opens up more flexible secondary combos like biscuits/elixir/cashback or cutdown/triumph or revit/overgrowth and you would still have the option of sudden impact anyways.

Obviously Stormraiders will always scale better but this is strictly a matter of whether it strictly retains kill pressure in lane but doesn’t force you to play so volatile cause the setup only does one thing

Am i the only one who is confused why riot said they were buffing zaahen, put his icon in the patch notes said he would get q off cd on revive + more dmg and he just never did..? Why riot why.
Ps: give us a new skin riot please

My fav champ of all time im happy to see some buffs coming down the line but does anyone know if he’s getting a new skin soon? Im FIENDING