I bought this item for the first time yesterday. I needed durability and figured it would help with map mobility and keeping lanes pushed.
But the void minions don't seem to DO anything. They run right past creeps, if you put the portal in a lane enemies just kill it and if you put it in the jungle the small duration of the voidlings kills them before they can reach a tower.
So, what use is this item aside from cheap durability stats?
TehNACHO1 votesThey run right past the minions? That doesn't sound right.
Strawberrycocoa1 votesI may be wrong, I only got to see them in proper action once because either the enemies killed the void gate or they died to duration timer running out of the jungle.
DisasterSola1 votesI bought this item for the first time yesterday. I needed durability and figured it would help with map mobility and keeping lanes pushed.
But the void minions don't seem to DO anything. They run right past creeps, if you put the portal in a lane enemies just kill it and if you put it in the jungle the small duration of the voidlings kills them before they can reach a tower.
So, what use is this item aside from cheap durability stats?
Generally speaking, if you buy resistences you lack pushing power. zzrot portal is meant to alleviate this by giving tanks average pushing power at the lategame, making them as useful as their more carry orietned counterparts when taking structures - Or allowing the tank (or bruiser, as the case may be) a much stronger split push.
Its just a pushing item; you use it to take objectives faster or to help you defend a tower. Its actually very good at defending lategame towers because the voidling scaling is good enough to chunk minions.
They run right past the minions? That doesn't sound right.
They priority lock on structures. If theres a structure in range, even if they wont get far enough to hit the tower, they lock onto the structure.
TehNACHO1 votesI know that, but the way it was phrased, it seemed to have been an entirely different situation he was talking about.
Strawberrycocoa1 votesI think that Priority Lock is what I was seeing, I dropped it close to a tower. Tower laser-beamed it to death before it could do much though. XD
GundayMonday1 votesYou ever try to siege an inhib tower late game? But your carries are too scared to hit the tower? Drop your 
down a little behind your team and let the voidlings do the work for you! Now you can help take objectives as a melee tank without diving and throwing.
Same thing if you're playing a tanky top and split pushing with 
. Drop your down in front of a tower right before you TP in to save the day!
There are weird comps you do where everybody gets items like 
and you just ruin the enemy team's day with all the pressure. Very fun on champs like 
(especially if you buy 
on ali).
Strawberrycocoa1 votesHmm, I'll have to grab the item again sometime and try those.
N0TY0U1 votesYou can also use it for extra vision in the jungle. It isn't subtle at all but it grants more vision then stealth wards. It likely won't stay up very long since it's very easy to spot but you can use them as a bait. And since you get move speed from the void gates you can just put them down for chasing/escape.
Laughing Fish1 votesArmor, Magic Resist, movespeed when near turrets, and help pushing/stalling a lane. Let's say you are top lane, and the bot lane needs helps. You have to leave your lane and go all the way bot, which means your lane will be alone for awhile. Dropping a Zz'Rot helps you keep pressure. Think of it as the tank equivalent of .