Zac vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Zac
based on 2,282 Zac vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Irelia
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.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Zac vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Zac versus Irelia counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zac often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Irelia
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Who is Better, Zac or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a great counter for Irelia.
While Zac does have a higher win rate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Zac also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often 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 Zac vs Irelia 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 team members during teamfights.
Zac is a great counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often picks up a lot less CS as Irelia. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zac versus Irelia build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 53.7% when playing against Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Irelia as Zac, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zac vs Irelia LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Zac are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.