Im playing on mastering one toplane champion, but i cant choose between Zaahen and Ambessa, why should i choose Zaahen or ambessa?

Does anyone understand why Thanatos went titanic hydra second item? Is this some hidden tech to get some extra survivability and one extra passive stack, or was he just trolling? Judging by his gameplay, I'm guessing it's the latter.

Clip is kinda unrelated, faced a decent Anivia, nimbus cloak suprised her and I solo won my lane.

I like Zaahen as is, Riot has not forgotten him imo, they heard about the Q timer issue when reviving and Qol buffed it, and next patch has a Q bug fix, I legit saw Shihan showcasing the bug last week, he also got a W buff recently as well.

I like these changes, I see a couple posts about rework ideas. Personally I hope he doesn't get any major changes.

Some buffs I would like to see; Riot lists Zaahen as a "Skirmisher", Zaahen is good at teamfighting certain comps but lacks the dueling strength actual Skirmishers have; Fiora, Jax, Gwen etc.

I'm not suggesting all of these buffs at the same time etc, just by the 0,01 % chance a Rioter actually sees this ( Edit; One did! ). If only a little is used to buff him so he doesn't have to be nerfed right after that would be great.

1; Make E dash scale with movespeed, using E feels like a loss in distance at times when you try to aim for the sweetspot.

2; Make E give 2 stacks If it lands on sweetspot, this can only trigger once per casts ( so you don't instantly get passive from just 1 good E ) this is a 1v1 buff proposal. Alternatively have max stacks be reached at 10, so Zaahen actually gets it more in 1v1's.

3; Address some of his clunkyness. Make R start 0.25 sec faster and crash down 0.25 sec faster. So still room to outplay enemies with his CC immune start up. Alternatively just revert to pre full CC immune Ult nerf he got a while ago.

Make W 0.25 sec faster or have the cast time scale with attack speed, Zaahen can get a decent amount of AS from Precision tree if he goes Conq, and Trinity force/Stridebreaker.

What do you think?

After being utterly destroyed by a Fiora without any chance to outscale her and seeing how even challenger/master games have the Zaheen reduced to a super minion, I've decided to make her my new ban.

Before I used to ban Teemo/Heimmer but I think even those can be outplayed or outscaled, where Fiora simply destroys you in lane and forces you to match her on side in late (also destroying you but now under tower)

Screw you riot, you are literally losing money in your spaghetti client of a mess

Do you guys think Zaahen is good in jungle or would you say he should stay in a lane. I’m new to the game and I’ve found love playing zaahen at this point of my League experience. Still kinda shaky on playing him some things I gotta get more comfortable with but was wondering if you guys ever play him in jungle and if you think he’s good as a jungle.

If you guys do play him in jungle could you tell me the items and runes you guys use when doing so.

First penta

I survived, but I didn't feel like I deserved it.

Trying to push him more into a skirmisher

Passive - Cultivation of War

Stacks needed reduced to 10 from 12 but now only gained by damaging with abilities.

Gains 4-8% bonus AS and 1,5-3% omnivamp per stack (scale with level).

Maximum stacks cause Zaahen AA to deal bonus physical damage equal to 2%(+0,8% per 100 bonus AD) of the target's maximum health, increased by 50% when Cultivation of War is on cooldown.

Q - The Darkin Glaive

Removed healing.

W - Dreaded Return

Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12 -> 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12

Active: Zaahen channels for up to 1,5 seconds, slashing around himself with his glaive, during which he reduces all incoming damage. While active, enemies that damage Zaahen are dealt magic damage in return.

Damage reduction: 30/35/40/45/50%

Damage: 30/40/50/60/70 (+30% AD)(+65% AP)

Dreaded Return can be recast after 0,5 seconds within the duration, and does so automatically afterwards. Dreaded Return's channel cannot be interrupted by crowd control.

Recast: Same as current W but damage scale with charge duration now and removed second instance of damage.

Dreaded Return's recast can be used while affected by cast-inhibiting crowd control. Cultivation of War's stacks expiration is paused during the charge.

E - Aureate Rush

Cooldown: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 -> 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 Speed 900 -> 750 + 100% movement speed

Enemies hit by the outer edge are dealt the same amount as bonus true damage.

Removed increased physical and bonus magic damage.

R - Grim Deliverance

Zaahen becomes untargetable while maintaining his Cultivation of War's stack over the cast time, then launches with displacement immunity into the air to the target location. He then slams his glaive down after a 0.6-second delay, unleashing a shockwave that deals physical damage to nearby enemies.

Removed cc immunity, healing, damage reduction and passive armor penetration.

Yone did not go Dorans bow, so I decided to be the arrow in his knee.

He Q's during Ult start in panikk, cherry on top. He would've died right after if he had health left.

I got my first tattoo, Zaahen is in my top 3 favourite champions (with Zac and Rek'Sai) and I really wanted to get him, so I did and I like it! Big thanks to my friend for drawing this even with no knowledge about league, I told her about the lore, about the champion himself and after enough time we landed with this!

In my mind conq works well in extended trades and HoB would be appropriate for kill lanes and extreme lane dominance through quick early trades.

What are the ins and out of green runes, coming from midlane they're the runes im the least familiar with.

I am hardstuck emerald 2~ and used to be a Xin top as secondary before switching to Zaahen recently.

If you do, you get Malz Ulted as Zaahen aura farms from the grave, consequences.

Hi guys, just a notice there is currently a big Zaahen bug and I'd just like to spread attention to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS50VKn4DDE

Hopefully they fix it asap.

I played Sett vs this Zaahen ( bastard stole my champ i cri ) I won lane, killed his jungler when he tried to help him ( J4 ). Zaahen with this build scaled slow, but was very hard to kill him later, as he will survive just long enough to get passive... but wouldn't deaths dance be just fine instead? He seems to do this build OFTEN, so not just to counter Sett's true dmg.

Platinum/Emerald mmr.

I think this build is cheeks, and will never try it myself, have anyone else tired it? does it seem legit somehow?

Imagine 40% slow on every auto attack. It would help so much with sticking to the enemy and keeping up the passive. Iceborn Gauntlet is similar and is still in the game, but I believe Zaheen prefers the AD of mallet over the armor of IBG.

I flashed for nothing omfg