S14 Mar 2026 Stat Nerfs
Adjusted skill damage
Lady Zhen
(甄姬) B Mid Difficulty
Mage
Control Mage Crowd Control/Frozen Balanced Hard
Lady Zhen
甄姬
B Mid
Difficulty Mage
Control Mage Crowd Control/Frozen Balanced Hard
Also known as
Lady Zhen's Chinese name is 甄姬.
甄姬
Quick summary
Lady Zhen is a mid-tier Mid Mage who wants to lock down team fights with crowd control. Public guides recommend a build starting with Boots of Tranquility and Flash.
Current patch decision guide
When to pick Lady Zhen, when to avoid them, and how to adapt your build.
Lady Zhen is a balanced Mid Mage who wants to create engage windows with stuns and slows. Public guide data shows a build centered on Boots of Tranquility, Holy Grail, Venomous Staff, paired with Flash, used to farm safely and rotate to side lanes when the wave allows. Pick her when the draft lets Lady Zhen reach the targets her kit is designed to threaten; avoid when the matchup denies the windows her kit needs.
Pick Lady Zhen when
- The enemy team has multiple high-mobility threats that need to be locked down before they reach your backline
- Your team has the structure to use her ability to farm safely and rotate to side lanes when the wave allows, since Lady Zhen delivers consistent damage output and timely roams.
- The enemy draft includes Cirrus, Nakoruru, and Sima Yi, who appear in counter data as matchups Lady Zhen can pressure.
Avoid Lady Zhen when
- Your team lacks the follow-up damage to convert your control windows into kills
- Your team needs a jungle pick more than Lady Zhen's specialty, leaving the role unfilled if you commit here.
- The enemy team is built around answers to Crowd Control, removing the windows Lady Zhen's kit needs to perform.
Power spikes
Early game: focus on safe lane phase and tracking jungle pressure before Lady Zhen's mid-game tools come online.
Ultimate online: Destructive Deluge extends control duration, making team fights snowball off a single hit
Late game: cooldowns become short enough that Flowing Sigh influences every team fight rather than being a one-shot tool.
Build decisions
Control mage core
Lady Zhen's official build supports her Crowd Control and Frozen identity. Boots of Tranquility reduces her skill cooldowns so her control stays online, Holy Grail provides rapid Health and Mana regen for sustained casting, and Scepter of Reverberation makes her skill hits trigger explosions for extra burst. Venomous Staff lowers enemy Health regen against sustain comps.
Scaling, anti-tank & survivability
Augur's Word and Breakthrough Robe (converts Health into magical attack) let her scale damage without becoming a glass cannon, while Void Staff is the anti-tank penetration core and Insatiable Tome adds magical lifesteal. Ardent Dominion (shield at low Health), Splendor and Enigma - Moon Goddess (temporary invincibility) keep her alive. The recommended arcana are Nightmare, Avarice and Mind's Eye, with Flash for repositioning.
Matchup logic
Versus mobility
Dashes and immunity skills bypass Lady Zhen's control. Force the enemy mobility before committing Destructive Deluge, and aim control on stationary targets like channeling carries.
Role positioning
Lady Zhen is a Mid pick whose value depends on consistent damage output and timely roams. Stick to the role plan rather than forcing fights her kit is not designed to win.
Synergies
Public synergy data lists Dyadia, Liu Shan, and Zhang Fei as strong partners for Lady Zhen. Plan engages around Dyadia's setup window, then second-engage with Destructive Deluge.
Common mistakes
- Throwing Flowing Sigh on the front-line tank instead of saving it for backline carries.
- Engaging without checking enemy summoner-spell cooldowns, which often decide whether Lady Zhen's commit reaches the target alive.
- Greeding farm in mid lane while side lanes get camped — rotation timing matters more than CS lead in most matchups.
Background
Cascada
“I thought we could be together forever...”
What Lady Zhen thought was love was just a deception, an illusion that made her lose her true self and live an unhappy life. As an inheritor of the water sacrificial rites, she grew up in absolute obedience to her family's teachings and was denied her desires. That was why, when a member of the Cao family professed his sincere love for her, the intensity of her love led her to betray her own family. When it all came to naught, the rain and her tears would define her grief—and her strength.
- Race:
- Human
- Height:
- 171 cm
- Style:
- Sorcery
- Nation:
- Wei
- Title:
- Descendent of the Anomatic
Source: Official Honor of Kings — canonical lore for Lady Zhen.
Base Stats
Source: in-game capture (HoK Global v11.x, 2026-04-20)Survivability
3202
Max HP
150
Phys DEF
75
Mag DEF
45
HP/5s
Offense
168
Phys ATK
5%
Atk Speed
200%
Crit DMG
Utility
360
Move Speed
640
Max Mana
16
Mana/5s
Ranged
Range
Build
How to choose a build
Start with the safe default badge if the draft looks normal, then swap to burst, anti-tank, sustain, or utility builds when the matchup clearly calls for it.
Full AP burst
Safe defaultStart here if the draft looks standard and you want the safest all-around setup.
Arcana
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
PHEA
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
Presets
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
Mage support
Utility supportBest when your team needs peel, setup, or safer fight control more than damage.
Arcana
Presets
Skills
passive Frozen Touch
Places marks on enemies when hitting them with skills, for up to 3 stacks. Upon reaching max stacks, she freezes and damages the enemy.
skill1 Ocean of Tears
Damages and launches enemies within the target area
skill2 Flowing Sigh
Fires a water orb at the target, which deals damage and bounces between nearby enemies.
ultimate Destructive Deluge
Fires a stream of water in the target direction. For a period of time after hitting an enemy hero or reaching its maximum range, the stream of water reforms into a pool, dealing damage and slowing enemies within it.
Skins
7 skins
Puteri Gunung Ledang
Snowventure
Peony Romantic
Queen of Womenland
North Mountain
Snow Waltz
Flowery Expectations
Playstyle
Lady Zhen's signature tool is Destructive Deluge (fires a stream of water in the target direction). Look for angles to land your control from max range, then follow with your damage rotation.
Patch History
S7 Dec 2024 Stat Buffs
Increased Skill 2's bounces, reduced Skill 1 CD
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Lady Zhen's bounce attacks perform well during small team fights in the early to mid game. To better pace her power level and make it last until the late game, we've changed the number of bounces her Skill 2 has. We've also reduced the cooldown of her Skill 1 to give her more opportunities to freeze enemies and protect herself in the early game.
S6 Sep 2024 Stat Nerfs
Reduced mid to late game damage and lowered the slow effect of Ultimate during the early and mid game.
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Lady Zhen has strong area crowd control and continuous poking capabilities. Her Skill 1 also enhances survivability. We are slightly reducing her damage output and crowd control to allow other heroes to better compete against her.
S6 Jul 2024 Stat Nerfs
Slightly improved laning in the early game, but weakened poking in the late game.
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Lady Zhen is a mage with exceptional damage and crowd control. In the current version of the game, she is clearly a bit too powerful. We hope to reduce Lady Zhen's domination in the mid to late game and, while lowering her damage and poke ability in the late game, adequately supplement her lane clearing in the early game.