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Zaahen Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 25,933 gamesUpdated

50.3%win rate1.2%pick1.1%ban

Who counters Zaahen

Every Top matchup for Zaahen, ranked →

How to build Zaahen

Plated Steelcaps→Trinity Force→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Trinity Force → Stridebreaker → Death's Dance

60.9% win rate 21% of games 2,543 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteCoup de GraceResolveBone PlatingRevitalize39% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite72%
Skills
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The Darkin Glaive
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Dreaded Return
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Aureate Rush
29101213
Grim Deliverance
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Zaahen build →
50.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.8% over 61,034 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.3% over 25,933 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.9%at Emerald+
1.2%pick rate
1.1%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.3%under 22 min
51.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Zaahen champion portraitT ZaahenvsAatrox champion portraitT Aatrox
3 / 1 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Stridebreaker

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Zaahen champion portraitT ZaahenvsRenekton champion portraitT Renekton
1 / 4 / 2

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Trinity Force

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQER
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Zaahen champion portraitT ZaahenvsYone champion portraitT Yone
9 / 3 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Stridebreaker→Death's Dance→Endless Hunger→Guardian Angel

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.2% win rate · 39% of games · 9,476 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteCoup de Grace
ResolveBone PlatingRevitalize
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 49.9% win rate · 13% of games · 3,248 games
DominationHail of BladesSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryNimbus CloakTranscendence
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite72%50.1%19,302 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport20%49.5%5,298 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps64%Mercury's Treads27%Boots6%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.2% win rate

Zaahen build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Stridebreaker1st
  2. Trinity Force2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path61.8% win rate1,335 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zaahen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 25,877 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
63% · 51.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 51.4% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 39.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
3% · 56.0% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 34.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
1% · 55.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Stridebreaker›Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps8% of games · 50.1% win rate · 2,063 games
  2. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps7% of games · 33.7% win rate · 1,895 games
  3. Stridebreaker›Trinity Force+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 49.9% win rate · 764 games
  4. Stridebreaker›Trinity Force›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 62.8% win rate · 705 games
  5. Trinity Force›Stridebreaker+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 50.6% win rate · 674 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Zaahen against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Zaahen's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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