Trials of Twilight Zaahen
Primary
Tier
Required
2-Cost Reroll
1-Cost Reroll
2-Cost Reroll
3-Cost Reroll
Fast 8
Fast 9
1 & 2-Cost Reroll
1 & 3-Cost Reroll
2 & 3-Cost Reroll
9
114
Main
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Traits
7
Ionia
3 > 5 > 7 > 10
1
Immortal
1
1
The Boss
1
1
World Ender
1
4
Slayer
2 > 4 > 6
2
Darkin
1 > 2 > 3
2
Bruiser
2 > 4 > 6
1
Demacia
3 > 5 > 7 > 11
1
Quickstriker
2 > 3 > 4 > 5
1
Void
2 > 4 > 6 > 9
1
Warden
2 > 3 > 4 > 5
7
1
1
1
4
2
2
1
1
1
1
Tips & Tricks
- Xin Zhao turns into Zaahen after 5 combats of having him 3 starred (so you’ll usually have Zaahen at some point in Stage 5).
- Currently 2 main versions: Ionia or Demacia. The Ionia version has a much higher player rate and can 3 star Yasuo with Xin Zhao.
- The 3 Emblems on Aatrox are just to fix the traits (Zaahen gets Xin Zhao’s traits as long as Xin Zhao is not on the board, but the website doesn’t account for that so the emblems are a workaround). The guide is not recommending the emblems.
Strong Conditions
+2 Tier Conditions B → S
Death’s Defiance
Mittens+1 Tier Conditions B → A
Flickerblades
Sniper’s Focus
The Darkin Scythe
Heroic Grab Bag+Heroic Grab Bag++
Rolling For Days I
Team Building
Unsealed From SteelOpeners
Ionia Demacia
Jarvan IV
Jhin
Poppy 
Xin Zhao
Kennen 3
3
2
2
Yunara
Wukong
Darkin
Immortal
Zaahen
5
5
No Level Requirement
Must complete ALL conditions
- Have the ‘Trials of Twilight’ Augment
- Field a 3-star Xin Zhao for 5 combats.
Current
Best-in-Slot
Alt Build 1
Alt Build 2
Alt Build 3
Divine Challenge
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Omnivamp
The Darkin Blade
Transcendent State
Diverting Trickster
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Kin of the Stained Blade
The Show Stopper
Economy Strategy
- Level to 4 if you have upgrades and a good item to place on one of those upgrades.
- Level to 5, unless on 3 loss streak.
- Level to 6. Roll until stable. “Stable” changes depending on rank, items, augments, composition, and patch, but generally speaking it involves 2-starring your desired 2-cost carry and a tank with items. Major divergence between elos: The lower your elo, the less upgrades you need to be “stable” and thus lower elo players should generally roll less than high elo players on 3-2.
- After your 3-2 rolldown, you should attempt to rebuild your economy to 50g.
- Once you reach 50g (it might be later than 3-5), start slow rolling down to ~52g each turn. Try to avoid rolling to exactly 50g as any unit you want to buy in shop will put you below 50g.
- If you are high HP relative to the lobby, continue slow rolling to 52g each turn. If you are lower HP, you should roll to hit your first 2-cost 3 star on 4-1 or 4-2. If you have to roll below 30g, your placement is usually capped at 3rd or 4th.
- If you are still high HP (70+), you can continue to slow roll. Otherwise, in the majority of cases, you should roll deep for your 3-stars here. If your HP is low, you can even go to 0 gold looking for your 3-stars. If you have your 3-stars and can afford to level to 7 with 10g+, do so.
- Level to 7 if you haven’t already.
- Level to 8 as soon as possible. This may not happen until 5-5 or in some games, stage 6.
- Level to 9 whenever possible. This is rare, but can happen in the games you have a chance of winning.
Running 7 Ionia is a gamble, ionia dies too quickly against tanks. almost impossible to 3star Yasuo – I’m lucky if I can 2 star him. I find it’s easier to play bruiser for the first half of game and build up ionia on your bench. Then once you unlock Sett, start building your game around him.
with those item you don’t have enough omnivamp to unlock aatrox
WHY EVERYONE HERE SAYING THIS ZAAHEN IS NOT GOOD. I JUST WON THE GAME AND SAW HOW ZAREEN 1V5 THE ENEMY COMP!!!
THIS AUGMENT ASS
Just don’t play this comp, don’t click this augment unless you already have 2 xin at clicking, save yourself a bot4 till they figure out how to make this not turbo bad.
Don’t be like me and copy paste the team code and not realize Xin Zhao is not in it, so you may have skipped over some because you are playing like a lazy monkey o7
maybe put Xin in the bottom right corner? would also fix the trait issue
There might be something to be said for including 3 Demacia over four slayer in the Ionia version since the armor mr and mana reduction benefits zaahen over the negligible Omnivamp increase (if you can’t hit aatrox, and 2 darkin isn’t that good)
this comp suck, zaahen weak af with 1 radient item
can’t wait for this to get buffed. very fun but again not a board with senna/luc kindred fidd sol late game so its auto b tier. “we want to have diverse end boards” LMFAO
I am stupid enough to have tried this Again, Heartsteel is really really good on him. I would recommend, once you become half stable, Rush 10, if you want top 1 abuse that you have less competition and start with 2 stars, so you have a leg up on getting him to 3 star, that has worked more or less to get to top 1, else you will top 3/4
As others stated, right now this one feels like a complete bait. Only way I can see it work is if you high roll both Xin and Yasuo and get them both to 3* by 4-1 at the latest, and even then you might still go bottom 4.
Is 3 Demacia 2 Defender better than going 5 -> 7 Ionia though, I think the 24 armor is kinda nice.
I have to say, Zaahens numbers are down horrendous, 2 star zaahen is worse than just a 2 star Yone, which makes no sense to me.
Honestly the augment feels like a bait; it just so underwhelming for how hard it is to pull off. Even if you 3-star your Xin, you have to wait an entire stage for Xin to transform into Zaahen. The cherry on top is that Zaahen is literally worse than some of the other 5 cost units in the game. I would not recommend unless you are trying to finish your lorefinder
When I played this just now, my Zaahen counted as another ionian, is this a bug or intended? Allows for 4 slayers at 9 if intended
Intended, as long as you don’t run Xin Zhao then he counts as a Demacian and Ionian still.
Do you need Kennen here? But you will have 8 Ionias