Xerath with Zac
How to Synergize Xerath and Zac
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Xerath Zac Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Zac
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Zac
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Advice to Understand How Zac Will Play
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.
Xerath Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zac. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zac helps Xerath perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath tries to synergize with Zac, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zac helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zac. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zac.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Zac on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Xerath in teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Zac
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Zac?
There is no top companion for Xerath that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Zac is a decent ally for Xerath. By playing on the same side as Xerath, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Xerath and Zac that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Zac comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xerath and Zac together, you will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zac ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xerath in order to pair well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Xerath and Zac synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zac than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Zac with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Xerath players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Xerath and Zac pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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