Zac with Alistar
How to Synergize Zac and Alistar
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Zac Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Zac with Alistar
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 Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Zac Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Zac in LoL
The Zac Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Zac perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zac plays on the same team as Alistar, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Zac plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Zac in teamfights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no ideal synergy for Zac that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Alistar is a below average ally for Zac. By locking into the same side as Zac, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Zac and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Zac and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Zac and Alistar synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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