Zed vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Zed
based on 3,015 Zed vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Zac
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Zed vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Zed versus Zac counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zac’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zac. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Zac
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Who is Better, Zed or Zac?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Zac, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter to Zac.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Zac, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Zacas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Zac. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Zac.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zed
Additional Information for Zed Players
How We Calculated Our Zed vs Zac Build and Stats
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up more CS compared to Zac. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zed versus Zac build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Zac than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Zac as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Zed vs Zac battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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