Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
The stats shown here highlight several important Zac versus Braum matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Zac typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when trying to fight Braum, with a 58.5% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a fantastic counter to Braum.
While Zac does have a much higher win rate than Braum, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Braumas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Braum. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Braum matchups, Zac is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zac is a great counter for Braum. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Braum.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Braum. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zac versus Braum build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Spirit Visage, and Thornmail. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Braum than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 58.5% when playing against Braum with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Braum as Zac, Zac players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Zac vs Braum counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 58.5% win rate overall.
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