Zac vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Zac
based on 799 Zac vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Zac vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Zac in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Zac versus Ryze counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zac often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Ryze
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Who is Better, Zac or Ryze?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Ryze, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zac into Ryzeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Ryze matchups, Zac is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zac is a decent counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zac against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Ryze 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 suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac often racks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zac versus Ryze build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Ryze than with many other common builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Ryze with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Ryze as Zac, you 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 sets that we analyzed for Zac vs Ryze matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Zac are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.