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The Unsundered
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (2,531 games).
Zaahen, The Unsundered, stacks Determination on champions for attack damage and pulls enemies toward him with Dreaded Return. Master+ played him Top in most games, on Conqueror more than Grasp of the Undying, with Trinity Force into Stridebreaker the path bought most. K'Sante and Fiora beat him most often. Olaf, Garen and Renekton he did better against.
Fighter
Patch 26.18 · Top · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 2,531 games · Preview sample
2,531
Games
High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
55.9%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite76.2%Win Rate
Flash
Teleport
This exact page: taken in 12.7% of games·44.9% win rate over 321 games.
Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions.
Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal bonus true damage to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth.
Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total. Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected.
Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown reduction on your Ultimate.
After casting a Summoner Spell, gain a short Move Speed increase that allows you to pass through units.
Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level 8: +5 Ability Haste Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Grasp of the Undying27.6% taken · 52.5% win699 gamesHail of Blades24.1% taken · 48.0% win610 games
Fleet Footwork2.0% taken · 48.0% win50 games
Precision + Resolve34.3% taken · 48.4% win867 games
Resolve + Inspiration24.0% taken · 51.7% win607 gamesDomination + Sorcery17.3% taken · 46.6% win438 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Zaahen's most common path.
QZaahen slashes twice on his next attack, dealing bonus damage and healing himself.
Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6s · 25 Mana
WZaahen stabs in a direction, damaging enemies hit, then pulls them toward him.
Cooldown 14/13.5/13/12.5/12s · 50 Mana
EZaahen dashes to a location and slices around himself.
Cooldown 10/9.5/9/8.5/8s · 40 Mana
RZaahen rises then stabs downward, damaging enemies and healing for a portion of the damage dealt.
Cooldown 110/95/80s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QThe Darkin Glaive | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WDreaded Return | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EAureate Rush | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RGrim Deliverance | R | R | R |
How Zaahen performs against enemy top laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Punish the cooldown — Zaahen is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 2/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Trade on your terms — take the fight where its damage lands on nobody
PCultivation of War
Zaahen's attacks and abilities against enemy champions grant him stacks of Determination, gaining bonus Attack Damage per stack. When filled with Determination, Zaahen gains increased Attack Damage and can revive.
Passive — never cast
QThe Darkin Glaive
Zaahen slashes twice on his next attack, dealing bonus damage and healing himself. Zaahen can recast this ability to have his next attack deal bonus damage and knock up his target.
Cost 25 ManaCooldown 10/9/8/7/6sRange 25000
WDreaded Return
Zaahen stabs in a direction, damaging enemies hit, then pulls them toward him.
Cost 50 ManaCooldown 14/13.5/13/12.5/12sRange 850
EAureate Rush
Zaahen dashes to a location and slices around himself.
Cost 40 ManaCooldown 10/9.5/9/8.5/8sRange 25000
RGrim Deliverance
Zaahen rises then stabs downward, damaging enemies and healing for a portion of the damage dealt.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 110/95/80sRange 600
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Zaahen in 5 patches. The latest is patch 26.18, published 2026-09-09.
QThe Darkin Glaive
We're using a QoL change here as an opportunity to give Zaahen some love! This might read as a nerf, but Zaahen's Q lined up with his passive in such a way that it meant he always left his resurrection (and GA, Zilean R) with Q on CD, so now he's always happier. His Q2 is also a clean double of his Q1 base damage now.
WDreaded Return
Zaahen is already seeing more play across audiences, so we're giving him more room to fish for his early trade patterns and engage in mid game skirmishes without raising his scaling ceiling.
WDreaded Return
EAureate Rush
Zaahen has caught on as one of the strongest top laners and junglers in the game. In our view his jungle performance is farther over the line, so we're delivering some nerfs with a moderate jungle skew to them. His W is more core to his ganking than it is to his laning, and this E nerf is jungle-skewed and will reduce his ability to create and react to pressure early on.
QThe Darkin Glaive
EAureate Rush
Zaahen was meant to have a secondary player base in the jungle and while he's great in the top lane, he's not performing well enough elsewhere. So we're delivering some straightforward jungle-specific buffs to bring him back up where he was at the end of last year.
PCultivation of War
QThe Darkin Glaive
EAureate Rush
These changes went out as a micropatch during 25.23, but we wanted to capture them here for posterity and offer some thoughts on how we think Zaahen's release went. For 25.23, overall Zaahen released a bit too strong. His damage was a bit high and had room to go down while still feeling satisfying, so we decided to target that over other parts of his kit. We're being cautious here, so we're taking a little more time to see how he settles before we make additional changes, but we'll be keeping our eyes peeled and will make additional changes as needed. Now we’re at 25.24 and Zaahen is still a bit strong, particularly in higher ranks, so we’ve got some skill skewed changes here which should bring him down a bit. We also want to compensate his jungle a bit as we expect it to lose some power as a result of these changes, so we’re upping his Q’s monster damage mod.
Riot's data lists 2 looks for Zaahen with their own art, the base skin included and 8 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Zaahen | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 640 | =48th | 620 |
| Health per level | 114 | =14th | 104 |
| Base armor | 36 | =20th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 5 | =18th | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 63 | =41st | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.625 | =117th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.5% | =75th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 345 | =9th | 335 |
| Attack range | 175 | =87th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 640 | +114 | 2578 | 16th of 173 |
| Mana | 350 | +55 | 1285 | =24th of 145 |
| Armor | 36 | +5 | 121 | =17th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Zaahen, The Unsundered, is a Fighter champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 2/10 for difficulty, 8/10 for attack, 6/10 for defense and 1/10 for magic. Zaahen spends Mana and has 2 skins with their own art.
A fallen god wielding both divine and profane power, Zaahen hunts his fellow Darkin while defying the corruption that threatens to consume him. Once willingly sealed within his glaive to stave off madness, he now walks free, noble in heart and vicious in purpose. Zaahen fights an eternal war within—but so long as he endures, he will rise above all who seek to bring Runeterra to ruin.
