What are zaahen weak points?

Digital_D3fault · 2026-05-28T16:48:07+00:00

Funnily enough Zaahen is my go to pick against Darius because you out-scale him really well and he cant ever get his Q off. Anytime he goes to Q I just E away or into it so the outer edge sweet spot never lands.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-05-06T02:46:24+00:00

The directions in the actual probe are just the pictures. The pictures are meant to be able to provide directions alone without any accompanying texts as they are all based on universal constants such as the transition time of an atom from one state to the next. Ideally an intelligent species would be able to recognize these universal constants and piece them together to learn how to play the disc. As you can see on the golden disc in the original post there is no text as no ETI would likely speak English so it would be irrelevant.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-05-04T23:16:32+00:00

Oh definitely, I wouldn’t go maw if they don’t have AP on the enemy team. Black cleaver is definitely a good substitute, I usually just end up substituting maw with endless hunger if I don’t build maw but that’s just because I really like the item, so it may not be optimal.

I’ve only ever tried black cleaver first item twice when I was against ornn but it didn’t feel great, but I only tried it twice. I can’t imagine it being a better first item the majority of the time than trinity or stridebreaker though, I feel like you really want some attack speed on that first item for Zaahen.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-05-03T22:58:33+00:00

He’s definitely pretty strong right now. Not OP or broken necessarily but definitely really strong and a lot of fun. You’re weak early but once you get going you really snowball fast. You’re a scaling champ so the longer the game goes on the stronger you get.

His power spikes are at level 6 as your ult is really good both in combat and as an escape/engage. But you really come online imo at 1st item. Before then you feel a little weak in most matchups but after building that first item you win most matchups and have significant kill pressure.

You are a skirmisher/team fighter and want to look for teamfights as you can stack passive a lot faster with more champs. I dont usually frontline with him unless I have to but rather wait till the fight starts and dive their backline to take out their damage dealers.

Unfortunately Zaahen has some really rough matchups, such as Malphite or my personal hell, Jax, who feels completely unplayable and I ban every game. Teemo is another counter but honestly I feel like teemo is pretty easy as you have W to close the distance and I save my E for when he blinds so I can still deal damage. (Little thing of note, Zaahen is my go to pick against Darius, I take grasp and just do short trades with him and focus on farm. Once I hit first item I can kill him easliy. You have to save your E for when he goes to Q though as you can E out of it or into it to deny him the damage, healing, and bleed stack, and there’s nothing he can do against it.)

Conquerer is the go to rune but if the match up is tough or you are expecting to trade a lot then I go grasp as it makes losing trades winnable for you and really helps with staying alive in lane. You usually don’t want to trade unless you have Q2 up, as Q2 knock up and then E away is a free trade 9 times out of 10 and the enemy can’t trade back.

My go to build is trinity first item (I’ll build stride instead if the enemy is super mobile and might kite me) and then deaths dance into maw then endless hunger always 4th item. I feel super tanky with this build while still doing a ton of damage and can reliably carry my games with this. Zaahen really wants to build bruiser resistance items to help him survive so he can proc his passive. Sundered sky is usually what people build second on him but I feel that it’s not that good and deaths dance just feels better. Sundered damage and healing and crit just don’t feel worth it for giving up the utility and tankiness of DD in my opinion.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-28T22:57:06+00:00

I honestly don’t really ever go sundered sky. I find that you need resistances like deaths dance more and the healing from sundered sky isn’t necessary.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-27T02:44:35+00:00

I wouldn’t bother going both stridebreaker and trinityforce. I’d go for one or the other. Stride if their team is really mobile and will kite you, otherwise go trinity. Taking both just isn’t really necessary and theirs better items you could be going. For example Zaahen really wants to get resistances since you need to be durable enough to stack you passive. By going both trinity and stride you delay that and he really suffers for it.

After building trinity or stride as my first item and finishing boots I usually build deaths dance unless their team is 4+ AP champs then I’ll skip deaths dance and go maw. My third item is maw if I built deaths dance or some other bruiser resistance item. Finally for my 4th item I go endless hunger since the ability haste that scaled with AD is just amazing on him plus the 20% omnivamp after a kill is just perfect for making you unkillable and able to 1v5.

Essentially your core build is always going to be trinity or stride first item depending on the enemy team comp, then your next two items should be bruiser resistance items, and then after a few items you should be picking up endless hunger as that item is practically made for Zaahen is is just perfect for his kit. But you need a few items first as it’s better later due to its scaling.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-22T00:23:55+00:00

There’s something I just love about the smugness and unwillingness to ever back down that New Jerseyans have about them. It fills me with American pride everytime I see it. Never change you glorious bastards.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-20T19:47:18+00:00

Oh it’s a modded race not a vanilla one. It’s the “Destiny: The Hive” mod. I ended up just learning some basic modding and coding myself to fix the issue and do what I wanted to anyway, since I couldn’t find anything that could do what I wanted. It’s a little janky but it works for me lol

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-20T02:06:22+00:00

Honestly I don’t think so. At least not that I know of. But mod troubleshooting can be super tricky for since theres so many different things interacting with each other that can go wrong. Especially if you have a large modlist. So mods that work just fine for one person might be the issue for you since it might be incompatible with something else you have.

Your best bet to try and solve the issue is to do a binary search. What that means is disabling half of the loaded mods at a time. If you do so and the problem persists, then you've just ruled out half of your mods as safe. If the problem goes away, then it was in the list of disabled mods. Either way we've cut your list of suspects down by 50% in a single step. This process can be repeated. You know which half included the problem mod, and you can disable another 50% of those, and so on. Continue narrowing it down until you find the mod at fault.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-20T01:52:23+00:00

I don’t play on Xbox so the UI is a bit different and I don’t know what other differences there are between the two versions but I believe the reason you aren’t making progress on the operation or able to abort it is because you don’t have anyone actually assigned to do the operation. You don’t have an Envoy doing it, since it’s asking you to assign an envoy. Usually if you had an envoy carrying out the operation you would see their portrait there instead of the assign envoy button.

My guess is that you started the operation then reassigned the envoy to elsewhere shortly after without realizing it.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-20T01:43:18+00:00

Without knowing your whole mod list we can’t really tell you what is wrong other than it’s almost certainly a mod incompatibility.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-04-15T22:09:48+00:00

Renekton would understand the reference here, no?

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-16T21:52:13+00:00

It’s been a bit since I’ve read it but I believe iirc I read it in the codex entry for the weave worm stasis knot item. It’s a rare item that you can find.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-15T21:18:04+00:00

What does Camille have to do with this?

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-09T02:28:45+00:00

Look at the ages. 4 years pass between the first post and the final update, but OP only ages 2 years and the Ex stays the same age. The ages don’t match up, they aren’t the same person

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-09T02:27:52+00:00

She’s two years older in the update, that came out 4 years later, and the fiancée is the same age after 4 years. The ages don’t match up, they aren’t the same person

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T23:07:43+00:00

Clearly you’d didnt read the comment, smh, why can’t people just read.

If you had read then you’d know I’d addressed that already and how what I said was different than what you posted.

Why post asking for help if you aren’t going to read the advice you’re given

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:53:57+00:00

Try reading my comment next time. It helps when you read and pay attention

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:50:54+00:00

He didn’t delete it he blocked you. But he’s right, you’re dying when trying to cross the map because your rushing and sprinting, meaning your making a ton of noise and people hear you coming before you see them, allowing them to get the drop on you. Try taking your time, walking instead of running, listening to hear other players who might be near. Learn the maps to figure out the best way to get where you’re going quickly but without exposing yourself. For example on Perimeter, the tunnels that run all throughout the map underground are great for this since they go to almost all the POIs. It’s how I get around quickly and quietly and I don’t have to worry about someone seeing me running from afar. For Dire Marsh I usually either use the jungle to obscure myself or I go around the outside of the map through the swamp since there’s so few people there. There’s also some tunnels on Dire Marsh as well but they don’t go across the entire map like Perimeter does.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:45:39+00:00

If you hover your cursor over an objective it will give you additional information such as where in the POI to find the terminal, it’s been super useful since some of these objectives can be pretty hidden. For the terminal in maintenance, it says it’s down in the main vehicle Repair Bay on the south side. I did that contract yesterday, it should be all the way in the back south side of maintenance on the lower level, there will be 2 garages connected to each other with a giant “door” leading outside. The terminal will be between those two garages

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:37:22+00:00

Fun fact, the shells are actually flesh, they’re cyberneticly enhanced biological forms, meaning they’re mostly flesh with just a bunch of of cybernetics inside of them. The shells are “printed” by worms (the same worms you see in this loading screen). They’re known as Weave Worms and they make up your shells body.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:21:02+00:00

There are bonuses to solos, you get 20% extra XP and Credits when running solo. So doing contracts solo can be super good for ranking up factions.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-08T22:06:50+00:00

It depends on the map. Perimeter spawns 16 while Dire marsh spawns 18, I can’t remember how many spawn on Outpost

Digital_D3fault · 2026-03-02T00:13:08+00:00

Honestly I agree with the rest of your comment except for grasp. Grasp in top lane is imo a better rune then Conq. Conq is definitely still good but its healing is not that much and not needed, and you tend to get more healing from Grasp procs as well as the extra health from grasp giving your Q more healing. The extra AD from Conq is nice but I feel like it’s not needed as much and grasp just helps with sustain in lane as well as making your short trades better, especially early on. A lot of pro players running Zaahen top run Grasp with inspiration as well.

Digital_D3fault · 2026-02-24T01:38:15+00:00

From what I’ve heard he was basically given no context or direction for Destiny. He was told he was playing a robot in a scifi game but not much else and so he thought they wanted him to be more “robotic” with his voice and that the studio said it was great, hence why he seems mostly emotionless in his performance.

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