Zac vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Zac
based on 3,015 Zac vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Zac vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several influential Zac against Zed matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zac often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Zed
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Who is Better, Zac or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a good counter for Zed.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Zed, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Zedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Zed matchups, Zac is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zac is a decent counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zac against Zed.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zac
Additional Information for Zac Players
How We Calculated Our Zac vs Zed Build and Stats
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac usually gets less CS as Zed. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zac versus Zed build include Unending Despair, Spirit Visage, and Sunfire Aegis. When Zac used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 52.0% battling Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Zed 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zac vs Zed counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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