r/ZaahenMains

Hi guys, been having hard time on Zaahen top lane. I watch Ozneviik and Shihan, getting kills from the very beginning but when I try to do that, I always lose extended trades...but yeah, I cant compare myself to such Zaahen masters 😀

Anyway, what is early game Zaahen identity? His passive says extended trades, but it seems to me that early short trades into all in is the correct way? Bare in mind I am low gold elo...and no, comments saying in this elo you can do anything to win, won't help me 😀

how in god's green earth am i supposed to lane into gangplank?

i feel like no matter what i do im just playing wrong.

i break his barrels he spams q and pokes me down.

if i dont break barrels i cant farm without him eating half my hp.

i cant get on him with the barrels slowing me and his ignite auto giving him speed boost.

like at this point id prefer a teemo

hello y'all

im playing zaahen for a while now and im really struggling with him as a Blind pick in this meta (well, ranged meta, zaahen into 4 ranged enemies just sucks bad)
from your experiences, what champ would be a better blind but still pilotable with the skills learned by playing Zaahen?
I tried Aatrox for a few games but i feel like he's too complicated as a secondary champ

thanks y'all!

279 days since release rito when is it?

I’m hoping Spirit Blossom

Wondering what any high elo Zaahens plan on doing if they do follow through with nerfing SS again. Do you think it’s still viable? Would steraks or cleaver just be better since they got buffed?

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In my humble opinion (I’m known for W takes) Zaahen is THE coolest champion ever made. Man, this guy just has it all:
-High Mobility
-multiple forms of HARD CC
-plenty of sustain
-good looks
-a cool weapon
-based lore

Let’s discuss…

It has the same cooldown as Trinity force at 1.5 sec, yet if I cast Q2 immediately as it comes off the lock out, Tri force seems to lag behind just barley tho.

If you have 12 stacks with Endless hunger ( 100 + AH ) will the recast lockout be smaller?

Hey guys,

I’m switching roles and want to become a top lane main. I would want to Otp/main 1-2 champs and I’m asking myself if zaahen has enough depth to become really good at him and how his stand in the meta is right now.

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When it comes to champions I appreciate their character and charm, I vibe a lot with Zaahen's philosophy and personality so I wanted to try and love the champion but I absolutely could not.

As league has not been fun as of lately I have been doing a new challenge for myself which is to reach Mastery Rank 10 on champions I like, these have been the champions I have done the challenge for and it has been absolutely fun... Except For Zaahen...

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I have seen a post where someone was playing only Zaahen and reached Masters with only Zaahen. I truly do not understand how this is possible. All throughout this challenge I have never been as annoyed with a champion like Zaahen. I am not even Mastery Rank 10 with him yet and it is already too painful, maybe those who climb with him only play him Jungle as it seems like he has more success there. Other than that I do not find a single reason of picking this champion against anything literally..

For some of you who remember I have posted about this two times before asking for guidance and I did my best to listen to all of your feedback (although every person was arguing with the other on what the best strategy is to play for Zaahen), the champion is truly so useless that there is no best way to play him nor even best situation, buying items is always a challenge as you need so much stats and on top of that, your items are VERY expensive and farming with his Auto Attack speed and even movement speed is abysmal.

Hopefully you agree with me and if you don't then please enlighten me on how this champion is ever useful. Prove to me how picking Zaahen over Tryndamere or Olaf or literally any other champion who does what he does but better any good? Zaahen is not tanky, he has horrible stats early and mid, and for a top laner you already lose the game by minute 7-9 if you are behind. (For those of you who are top mains you will understand what I mean by that for Zaahen).

Feel free to review the games, I have never had such stats on any other champion EVER. The experience of playing Zaahen has been nothing but consistently horrible and bad. He needs a massive Identity Change as he truly lacks a TRUE IDENTITY.

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Any one else feel a lot stronger late game with hob now? I’ve had a few games where I’m very behind and once I hit a couple items just start deleting people.

I'm a plat 3 Sett OTP and have been yearning to learn some new champs. But Zaahen is such a strange champ cause literally no one plays him, i think i've played 1 game against Zaahen in my life. So i'm literally going blind into him, any advice for combos, runes, bans, build paths and how to team fight. So far i'm just building what feels right (stride > boots > sundered) (i unironically haven't had a long enough game to build any further items so far)

When it comes to champs with a lot of AD steroids in the game their base AD usually takes a hit to compensate with some exceptions like Darius. To my surprise Zaahen actually has very respectable numbers? I was wondering why Triforce actually did so much dmg. Just curious abt the design philosophy behind this particular instance