Rakan vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Rakan
based on 2,465 Rakan vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Zac
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Win Against Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Rakan vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Rakan against Zac matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zac’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zac..
Rakan usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Zac. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Zac
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Who is Better, Rakan or Zac?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rakan usually loses when trying to fight Zac, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a poor counter for Zac.
While Rakan does have a lower win rate than Zac, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rakan into Zac.
Moreover, Rakan has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Rakan is a somewhat poor counter to Zac. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan typically racks up less CS as Zac. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Rakan versus Zac build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Zac than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Zac with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zac as Rakan, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rakan vs Zac face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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