Zac vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Zac
based on 2,443 Zac vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Zac vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Zac against Nami matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami..
Zac typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Nami
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Who is Better, Zac or Nami?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when taking on Nami, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a good counter for Nami.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Namias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Nami matchups, Zac is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zac is a good counter for Nami. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac often gets more CS compared to Nami. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Zac versus Nami build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Nami than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nami as Zac, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zac vs Nami counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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