Zul'jin

Zul'jin
"Make way for the bad guy!"
Basic Info
Title	Warlord of the Amani
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	January 4, 2017
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1875
Health Regen	3.9023
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1.25
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	94
Data Page

Zul'jin, the Warlord of the Amani, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe.

Zul'jin is a Physical Damage Assassin who gains power while losing Health.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Zul'jin is a warlord of the Amani forest trolls and has been chieftain of the Amani tribe since before the Second War. Zul'jin and the Amani tribe were allied with the orcish Horde for the duration of the Second War, but Zul'jin himself was captured near its end by the Alliance. Upon gaining his freedom he went into hiding to rebuild his army and plan an attack on the remnants of the high elves, now known as blood elves, only to find them allied with the Horde.

A fierce forest troll of the Amani tribe, Zul'jin's ability as a warrior and leader meant he was able to do what no other troll had done since the Troll Wars: unite the warring tribes of Zul'Aman under a single leader. He was infamous for his daring raids on the outskirts of Quel'Thalas at a time when trolls had been completely beaten into obscurity by the high elves. Some claimed he planned to unite all trolls, but his plans were quickly put on hold by the events of the Second War.

Gameplay

Zul'jin is a physical damage Ranged Assassin who gains power as he loses health.

Strength

• Can be utilized as either a Basic Attack sustained damage dealer or Basic Ability burst "mage".
• Can fill multiple roles to accommodate a multitude of team compositions and match-ups
• Regeneration adds self-sustain in lane and between teamfights.

Weaknesses

• Players need to determine when to sacrifice Zul'jin's Health for bonus damage.
• No gap-closer; very susceptible to enemy ganks and dive
• Vulnerable to crowd control, Blinds and focus-fire
• High learning curve

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

D

Berserker

Cooldown: 0.5 seconds
Activate to increase Basic Attack damage by 25% but consume 2% maximum Health per attack.

Passive: Zul'jin attacks 1% faster for every 1% of maximum Health missing.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Self-Damage, Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target (toggle)

Properties: Attack Speed

Cast time: Instant

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• Toggling Berserker on or off does not dismount.
• Self-damage is not lethal.
• Self-damage consumes Health regardless of the attacks hitting or not.
• Berserker Attack Speed bonus stacks additively with itself and other effects that affect Attack Speed.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zul'jin's Basic Attack damage.

You Want Axe?

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❢ Quest: Every 5 Basic Attacks against Heroes permanently increases Basic Attack damage by 1.

❢ Reward: After attacking 75 times, Basic Attack range is increased by 1.1.

❢ Reward: After attacking 150 times, Twin Cleave now revolves twice.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Maximum damage bonus: 500 (2500 stacks)

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• Continues to gain stacks even after the quest is completed.

Q

Grievous Throw

40 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Zul'jin throws an axe forward, dealing 125 damage to the first 2 enemies hit and marking them for 6 seconds. Marked enemies take 50% bonus damage from Zul'jin's next 3 Basic Attacks against them.

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Type: Spell Damage / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Skillshot

Cast time: 0 + 0.125 seconds

Range: 9.775

Hitbox: 1 x 1.15

Missile speed: 25

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• Basic Attacks which miss due to being Blinded or the target Evading do not count toward the 3 Basic Attacks to remove the mark.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zuljin's Basic Attack damage.

W

Twin Cleave

60 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Throw 2 axes in a large, circular arc, dealing 116 damage and Slowing affected enemies by 15% per axe for 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Radius:
- Path: 10.0
- Hitbox: 0.75

Missile speed: ~39

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• Enemies can only be hit once per revolution for each axe.
• Twin Cleave's axes return and revolve from the initial cast location, regardless of where Zul'jin is.
• One full rotation takes 1.25 seconds.
• Slow stacks additively with itself, up to 2 times, but not with other Slows.
• Slow duration does not stack. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.

E

Regeneration

75 Mana Cooldown: 15 seconds

Zul'jin channels to regenerate 30% of his maximum Health over 4 seconds. Moving while channeling or taking damage will interrupt this effect.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Weak channel (stationary)

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 1.0 per second. (x5)

Healing per tick: 6.0% (of max Health)

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• Damage over Time effects applied before cast do not interrupt Regeneration.

R

Taz'dingo!

75 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

For the next 4 seconds, Zul'jin is Unkillable, and cannot be reduced to less than 1 Health. Taz'dingo!

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Unkillable

Cast time: Instant

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• Overflowing damage taken is nullified.

R

Guillotine

70 Mana Cooldown: 40 seconds

Zul'jin launches a massive axe into the air that drops on the targeted area, dealing 330 damage plus bonus damage the lower his Health is.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0 + 0.5 seconds

Range: 20.0

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 2.5

Height: 5.5

Impact delay: 1.375 seconds

Maximum damage bonus: 200%

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• Bonus damage from missing Health is determined when the Ability is activated. Offensive damage modifiers, such as Spell Power bonus from Recklessness, are verified and applied when it impacts.
• Bonus damage is proportional to the square of Zul'jin's missing Health: bonusDamage% = missingHealth% 2 / 50
• Bonus damage is added directly to the base damage and stacks multiplicatively with offensive damage modifiers.

1

Amani Rage

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Activate to cause Zul'jin to instantly lose 50% of his current Health and heal for that amount over 10 seconds.

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Type: Self-Damage, Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Heal over Time

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x10)

Talents

1

Boneslicer

Grievous Throw now pierces through all enemies hit and restores 15 Mana per Hero hit. Additionally, Grievous Throw's mark is no longer removed by Basic Attacks.

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Type: Mana restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Recklessness

While Zul'jin is below 75% Health, he gains 10% Spell Power. While he is below 50% Health, his Basic Attack damage is increased by 15% and Basic Attacks against Heroes grant an additional stack of You Want Axe?.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Attack damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zul'jin's Basic Attack damage.
• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Zul'jin's Spell Damage or healing output.

Headhunter

❢ Quest: Zul'jin's first Takedown against each enemy Hero permanently increases his damage dealt by 2%.

❢ Reward: After getting Takedowns on every enemy Hero, Basic Attack range is increased by 1.1.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Zul'jin's damage.

4

Troll's Blood

Increase Regeneration's healing by 25%. If Regeneration fully finishes, restore 10% of Zul'jin's maximum Mana.

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Type: Bonus healing / Mana restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability / Self

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• Healing bonus directly affects the base value, causing the given percentage to stack multiplicatively with healing dealt modifiers.

Voodoo Shuffle

Cooldown: 10 seconds
Activate to remove Roots and Slows.

Passive: Lower the cooldown and Mana cost of Regeneration by 40%.

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Type: CC removal

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Amani Hide

Lower Amani Rage's cooldown by 10 seconds and gain 15 Armor while regenerating Health from it.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

7

Vicious Assault

Increase the duration of Grievous Throw's mark by 3 seconds and its damage bonus by 45%.

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• Stacks additively with baseline bonus and other offensive damage modifiers.

Arcanite Axes

❢ Quest: Twin Cleave's damage is permanently increased by 0.75 every time it hits a Hero.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Maximum bonus damage: 9001 (~12 001 stacks)

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• Each flying axe generates stacks.

Ferocity

Increases the Attack Speed bonus of Berserker by 40%.

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• Increases the Attack Speed gain per 1% of missing Health from 1% to 1.4%.

10

Taz'dingo!

Cooldown: 90 seconds
For the next 4 seconds, Zul'jin is Unkillable, and cannot be reduced to less than 1 Health. Taz'dingo!

Guillotine

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Zul'jin launches a massive axe into the air that drops on the targeted area, dealing 330 damage plus bonus damage the lower his Health is.

13

Lacerate

Increases the Slow amount of each axe by 10% and its duration by 0.5 seconds.

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• Duration increase does not apply per axe.

Eye of Zul'jin

Basic Attack against enemy Heroes grant Zul'jin 6% Movement Speed for 2 seconds, up to 30%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Movement Speed

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• Movement Speed is still gained (and duration refreshed) if the Basic Attack misses due to being Blinded or the target Evading.
• Stack additively with itself, but not with other Movement Speed bonuses.

Ensnare

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Throw a net forward, Rooting the first enemy Hero hit for 1.5 seconds. If no Heroes are hit, reduce Ensnare's cooldown to 10 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Root, Skillshot

Cast time: Instant

Range: 10

Hitbox: 1.5 x 1.5625

Missile speed: 25.0

16

No Mercy!

Zul'jin's Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes marked with Grievous Throw ignore Armor and deal an additional 2% of maximum Health as damage.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier, Percent Damage

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• Ignores only positive Armor effects.
• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance.

Wrong Place Wrong Time

If an enemy is hit by both Twin Cleave Axes at the same time, they take 100 damage and counts as 5 Hero hits for You Want Axe?.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 0.75

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• Bonus damage may occur in both locations where the two axes meet each other: in the mid-arc as well as in the end of axes' traveling path, i.e. the initial cast location.
• After completing the You Want Axe? quest, the second revolve also applies bonus damage.

Let the Killing Begin

When Zul'jin kills an enemy, his Attack Speed is increased by 5%, up to 40%, for 12 seconds. Basic Attacks refresh the duration.

Hero Takedowns instantly grant 40% Attack Speed.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Non-Heroes that die within 1.5 seconds of being damaged by Zul'jin grant a stack regardless of who dealt the killing blow.
• Destroyed Structures do not grant Attack Speed.
• Duration is refreshed on the Basic Attack projectile originating rather than on-hit, and so additionally is still refreshed if the Basic Attack misses due to being Blinded or the target Evading.
• Stacks additively with itself and other Attack Speed bonuses.

20

Amani Resilience

Increase Taz'dingo's duration by 1 second. Upon expiring, Zul'jin heals for 50% of the damage he dealt during Taz'dingo.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

Buzzsaw

After impact, the Guillotine continues forward, dealing 75% damage to enemies hit. If a Hero is killed by Guillotine, Zul'jin is instantly healed to full.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Area of Effect

Hitbox: 2.5 x 5.5

Missile speed: 15.0

Tickrate: 2.0 per second

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• Buzzsaw's damage is based on the increased damage value from missing Health bonus.
• The healing is applied, if a hero dies from any cause within 1.5 seconds after being hit by the initial impact of Guillotine or damage from Buzzsaw.
• Buzzsaw searches for targets every 0.0625 seconds, but enemies cannot be damaged more often than once every 0.5 seconds.
• Buzzaw's damage reduction stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect its damage.

Forest Medicine

Regeneration is no longer Channeled, and cannot be interrupted.

A Surprise For Ya

Basic Attacks bounce to a nearby enemy for 50% damage, prioritizing enemy Heroes.

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Type: Physical Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Bounce

Bounce range: 5.0

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• Target is chosen at random within the bounce range.
• Does not interact with Grievous Throw mark at all and does not give quest progress for You Want Axe?.
• The bouncing axe damage is affected by flat bonus damage from You Want Axe? and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Zul'jin's Basic Attack damage, including Recklessness, Headhunter and the Berserker state Zul'jin is in at the moment the bouncing axe hits the target.
• The 50% damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Zul'jin Guide

Zul'jin Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Zul'jin Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Zul'jin Skins
Warlord of the Amani
Backstory: Before the elves and their Alliance, the forests of Lordaeron belonged to the trolls of the Amani empire. As their warlord, Zul'jin has united the tribes into an army that stands ready to take back what is theirs and to slay the elves who stole it from them.
750 / 10,000 Warlord of the Amani	Free Classic	Free Bloodscalp	120 / 75 Sandfury	120 / 75 Frostmane
Emberlord
Backstory: The Emberlords seldom leave their molten domains, choosing to emerge only when the earth’s rage demands retribution. Once they are on the warpath, nothing can withstand their fury.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Toxic	350 / 400 Frost	350 / 400 Arcane	350 / 400 Amberlord
Warbringer
Backstory: Prior to the Troll Wars, the Amani Empire was a great and powerful civilization. Zul'jin has rekindled the flames of its former warlords, and has donned their ceremonial battle armor as a sign of respect.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Jungle	160 / 100 Venom	160 / 100 Coral	160 / 100 Desert

Zul'jin Event Skins
Lunar
Backstory: For Azeroth's trolls, the loa are a central part of the Lunar Festival. Shadow hunters celebrate the powerful spirits by crafting elaborate masks in their likenesses.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Ancestral	120 / 75 Cruel	120 / 75 Jade	120 / 75 Ornamented

Portraits

Zul'jin Portraits
Carbot Zul'jin120 / 75	Lil' Lunar Zul'jin75 / 40	Lunar Zul'jin75 / 40	Mossflayer Zul'jin75 / 40	Robo Zul'jin Insignia75 / 40	Stylized Zul'jin75 / 40	Toon Lunar Zul'jin75 / 40
Voodoo Doll Zul'jin75 / 40	Zerg'jin75 / 40	Zul'jin Emblem75 / 40	Zul'jin Hero	Zul'jin Mastery

Sprays

Zul'jin Sprays
Carbot Zul'jin120 / 75	Feast-ival Zul'jin120 / 75	Gingerbread Zul'jin120 / 75	Robo Zul'jin Insignia75 / 40

Emojis

Zul'jin Pack 1			Zul'jin Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Zul'jin Happy	:zuljinhappy: :zulhappy:		Zul'jin Angry	:zuljinangry: :zulangry:
	Zul'jin ROFL	:zuljinlol: :zuljinrofl: :zullol: :zulrofl:		Zul'jin Cool	:zuljincool: :zulcool:
	Zul'jin Sad	:zuljinsad: :zulsad:		Zul'jin Embarrassed	:zuljinoops: :zuljinembarrassed: :zuloops: :zulembarrassed:
	Zul'jin Silly	:zuljinsilly: :zulsilly:		Zul'jin in Love	:zuljinlove: :zuljininlove: :zullove: :zulinlove:
	Zul'jin Speechless	:zuljinmeh: :zuljinspeechless: :zulmeh: :zulspeechless:		Zul'jin Surprised	:zuljinwow: :zuljinsurprised: :zulwow: :zulsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Zul'jin/Quotes

Trivia

• Zul'jin made his debut in Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (December 1995).
  • His book debut was eleven years later, in World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness (August 2007).
• The story of how Zul'jin lost his right eye to the elves, and lost his left arm escaping them, was told in the Gods of Zul'Aman patch trailer.
• Zul'jin is the first and only troll hero in the game.
• Zul'jin is shown to be two-handed and two-eyed like in Warcraft II instead of having one of each cut down as his appearance in The Burning Crusade. His bio also shows that he hasn't regressed to his all-hating self of the expansion, only concerned about taking back the Amani from the elves and mostly using throwing axes, the only time Loa magic is used is during Taz'dingo! to render himself unable to die for a few moments.
• Zul'jin is voiced by Chris Metzen in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, and by Andre Sogliuzzo in Heroes of the Storm.
• Zul'jin's dance is a reference to the Axe Gang from the movie Kung Fu Hustle (April 2005).
• Zul'jin's Heroic, Guillotine, used to have a short wind up channel, which duration bar had a label "Givin' em' da axe", in place of what usually is the ability name. The wind up was removed in patch later along with the duration bar.
• The Classic tint of Zul'jin's base skin represents his appearance in Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

Gallery

General

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  Zul'jin's artwork.

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  Warcraft II concept art.

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  Zul'Aman loading screen.

Abilities

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  Q: Grievous Throw

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  W: Twin Cleave

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  E: Regeneration

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  R1: Taz'dingo

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  R2: Guillotine

Prerelease

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Zul'jin and various other heroes

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  Zul'jin, shown at BlizzCon 2013

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  Zul'jin and Samuro try to take a mercenary camp, shown at BlizzCon 2013

External links

• Zul'jin - Heroes of the Storm
• Zul'jin - Wowpedia
• Zul'jin Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Zul'jin Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm