Zac
BY Sammystinky
Table of Contents
Preseason Blob Blob (Master/ Top 10 Zac in world)
Zac
BY Sammystinky
Summoner Spells Back to Top
New Runes Back to Top
Abilities Back to Top
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Items Back to Top
Starting Items
Core Items
Situational Items
If they have 2 or more champs that crit run Randuinns instead of Dead man's otherwise personal preference
Regardless of circumstance (out of 10)
Spirit Visage - 10
- gives cd- super strong on ability oriented tanks
- bonus healing combos- super well with passive
- health- makes you bigger, gives you survivability
- MR- gives you survivability, kind of hard to build atm, much easier to get armor
Cinder gem- 8
- health- larger, more survivability
- sunfire burn- spend a lot of time in the middle of enemy team, really speeds up clear
- Percent health- Zac is an especially health oriented tank (Malphite for example is armor oriented
- Stalker's
- Pros -
- Combat utility, slow and damage
- Helps catch runners
- Movespeed
- Easy to use
- Cons -
- With your e, you don't combo that well with movespeed
- Most of your abilities slow
- Can smite people instead of objectives
Matchups Back to Top
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AatroxMedium -
AhriMedium -
AmumuMedium -
Dr. MundoEasy -
EkkoMedium -
EliseEasy -
EvelynnEasy -
FizzMedium -
GragasMedium -
HecarimMedium -
JannaHard -
KaynMedium -
Kha'ZixEasy -
KindredMedium -
NidaleeEasy -
PoppyHard -
RammusEasy -
Rek'SaiMedium -
SejuaniMedium -
TrundleMedium -
ViMedium -
VolibearEasy -
WarwickEasy -
ZacHard
VS
Aatrox
Medium
- Can out sustain Zac's damage if fed
- Has a dodge with
, which you can knock him out of, but it isn't easy
VS
Ahri
Medium
Ahri ult makes it hard to pin her down
Never going to hit ult
Ahri burst doesn't hurt Zac, but can kill allies
VS
Amumu
Medium
Percent health damage is a bitch and he is one of the few champs who can match you in team fights, but can he match those early ganks tho? (No)
VS
Dr. Mundo
Easy
Percent health damage is a bitch, but he can't save his carries from you at least and your percent damage is just as brutal
VS
Ekko
Medium
His e and r make him incredibly hard to e or pin down. His passive is also pretty strong vs you, but just avoid him or predict the e
VS
Elise
Easy
She can repel your e which is annoying, but you AOE down her spiders with her
VS
Evelynn
Easy
- No immediate dash
- Zac can match and 2 v 2 early
- Worse teamfighter than Zac
VS
Fizz
Medium
His E makes him almost impossible to hit with your E and the percent damage sucks, but he is still squishy and Zac does well vs. squishy
VS
Gragas
Medium
The 
and 
can displace your 
Has percent health damage
Worse teamfighter than Zac late
VS
Hecarim
Medium
Hitting him with while he is in motion is very difficult
He is pretty squishy and keeping him off your carries with ult or point blank is a priority
is a priorityVS
Janna
Hard
getting blown isn't worth it
VS
Kayn
Medium
He can invade you early and there isnt much you can do about it
He will rarely get caught in your e or ult
Late game you out team fight him
VS
Kha'Zix
Easy
Assassin are just that, ass. You can burst them, but they can't burst you.
You have enough cc and damage to that it isn't a problem if he jumps a carry
In a even 1v1 past level 12 the iso damage on q will let him win
VS
Kindred
Medium
Percent health damage
Dash
Hard to stop from stealing
Can knock out of ult 
with ult 
No AOE or CC
VS
Nidalee
Easy
Her pounce can make it hard to hit your but it is often predictable
You can match her clear and ganking early and out fight her late
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Poppy
Hard
Her 
, 
, and 
all stop your easily
percent health can take you out of the fight (charging easy target)Your worst matchup in the game (in my opinion)
VS
Rammus
Easy
He stacks armor, you are ap
percent health damageYou can hurt his team more than he hurts yours
VS
Rek'Sai
Medium
You can match him early and fight him late
Unburrow is a pain in the butt for
VS
Sejuani
Medium
stops 
percent health vs percent healthZac stronger ganks early
Sej bigger teamfight potential
VS
Trundle
Medium
is pretty brutal
can stop you have percent healthyou have better team fight
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Vi
Medium
allows her to 1 v 1 you
can dodge and displace 
makes it hard to stop her from killing your carriesCan match ganks early
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Volibear
Easy
- Zac wins early and late
VS
Warwick
Easy
can be stopped by and The time WW takes to scale isn't worth it
VS
Zac
Hard
The perfect counter to you in every way.
Jungle General Back to Top
Why do we have a jungle?
A jungle consumes the most possible resources for a team. Instead of only splitting the 3 lanes of cs.
What jungle should i play?
In general if you want to climb play something fun as boredom is the biggest threat. Any jungler played well can be very effective.
As of 2-3-17
Which is most important...
Early Damage: Lee, Elise
Late Damage: Kha, Rengar, Yi
Difficulty: Voli
Team fight: Zac, Sej, Amumu
Who to gank
Champs who low mobility and have limited cc are easiest to gank
Easiest to Hardest to gank_
Illaoi, Annie, TF, Jhin, Yorick, Lucian, Fizz, Riven, LeBlanc
Champs who have hard cc, high mobility, high damage
Easiest to Hardest to gank for
Morde, Illaoi, Mao, Jhin, Fizz, Thresh, Malz, Riven
Use op.gg or whatever your preference to look at the scores your teammates. If the player has over 6 games played and averages high kills (varies for rank) (only factor in kd and winrate not assists)
diamond- 6+
plat and gold- 7+
silver- 9+
Repeated ganks
Ganking Top, Bot, and Mid once is 4 burned flashes in 3 ganks and 0 kills in an optimal scenario.
Ganking Top and Top is 1 burned flash in 2 ganks and 1 kill in an optimal scenario
Their best player
Gank him early, if they get fed avoid them in all plays and pushes, unless you can out number them for sure.
Predict enemy jungle
If bot is late they started top
If top is late they started bot
Around 3 minutes they will finish taking the opposite buff and the side they end on becomes susceptible to ganks. If the lane is closer to enemy tower, stay in the area and take the scuttle.
In general if a lane is constantly pushed tried to stay around it while keeping your cs numbers up. If this means invading the jungle this should be okay as your lane has pressure.
Reactive
If their jungle ganks top and you cannot counter, take his bot jungle, gank bot or mid, or take dragon
If their jungle ganks bot and you cannot counter, take his top jungle or gank top or mid
Catch all lanes at tower to maximize gold if your laner is missing, but if both laners leave you can shove the lane
Numbers Back to Top
1 to 10 relative to other junglers
- 4- Mobility
- 4- DPS
- 4- Burst
- 6- Clear speed
- 7- Sustain/health
- 6- Ganking
- 3- Difficulty
- 9- Tankiness
- 7- 3 v 3
- 5- 2 v 2
- 3- 1 v 1
- 58- Sum
Mid game:
- 9- Mobility
- 4- DPS
- 3- Burst
- 5- Clear speed
- 8- Sustain/health
- 7- Ganking
- 4- Difficulty
- 8- Tankiness
- 8- 3 v 3
- 6- 2 v 2
- 3- 1 v 1
- 65- Sum
Late game:
- 8- Mobility
- 6- DPS
- 3- Burst
- 4- Clear speed
- 9- Sustain/health
- 8- Ganking/catch
- 5- Difficulty
- 8- Tankiness
- 8- 3 v 3
- 5- 2 v 2
- 4- 1 v 1
- 70- Sum
How To Play Zac Back to Top
Whenever you are headed somewhere take as many camps as you can on the way. E jumping into camps and continue your path.
Gank lanes early and often. Repeated ganks are more effective than new ganks, burn flash first, then regank
Gank the most immobile person, land behind them, ult back
Claim all farm at tower and push in lanes if it can die to tower and reset before your laner returns
If you see the enemy jungle on the opposite side of you. INVADE
Tips Back to Top
E
- You can't E tap any walls
- Tap E and you will hit just in front of you
- You can hit behind you with E with enough health
- If you become blobs mid E you fall above that spot
- For E, lean on the side of their base, if you miss ult
- At high level (~ plat +), the easiest way to dodge/miss Zac E is to head to max range and juke back toward him, the majority of players will attempt to maximize distance to catch up.
- Predict the dash, E the dash range (with the circle indicator they should at least jump somewhere if you aim at them so worst case you miss anyway, but have the opportunity to cripple spirits and look cool
Before team fights
- If your team has some form of peal or tankiness. Remain outside of vision, get a red trinket and possible a good vision ward to make sure.
- Often the lane pressured is mid, if you know one side it warded and don't want to waste clear or don't have it. Just switch sides or back up and sit behind a jungle camp (refer to How to Play Zac)
- While team pushing mid, don't clear cs, just clear wraiths, wolfs, and scuttles, the distance you can safely be from your team varies on rank and team comps. If you have a solid lead you should be good to leave
- Cancelling E halves the cooldown. You can always charge and cancel
- If you are winning, force a fight if numbers are even and you can E at least 2 people (factor in jumps and dashes) even under tower
Passive
- In a teamfight you are winning go as hard as you want, losing passive is bad, but they won't have time to kill you and you help carries
- On a chase while low you can often jump ahead of your team and bait a turn around burst and let the team catch up
- If a bruiser or carry can focus on blobs 0-7, you are dead, after this you probably can survive
- Can be tp'd and smited
- Don't make dumb plays, but getting caught bad and losing passive and dying is an even worse thing than usual
- You can ult without hitting someone simply to dodge cc
- Pushing against a wall is optimal, pick up blobs (only one direction to go) and hit bounces easier
- Wait for them to push to tower, position your E to kill the wave and hit them, smite any stragglers, ult them back into tower
- Take waves crashing into towers
- If a wave is just outside tower range, tank/freeze it for your laner to come back (if they have left base)
- While holding a blue buff or freezing a lane, prep E when your teammate gets close and launch asap
- Around 17 picking up 1 blob and missing 1 auto and hitting 1 person with w is worth dps wise
- Avoid walls when going into passive (concentrates the blobs)
- A Syndra W doesn't effect reform time
- Blobs can never be on opposite sides of a wall of Zac
Season 7 Back to Top
(9-25-17) plat +
Top- 5
- Riven, Fiora, Darius, Jax, Renekton, Jayce: pretty squishy, Darius will out sustain you in a teamfight and dragging him towards your team could really hurt you without executioners, Fiora and Riven will rarely be close enough to the team to be caught in your cc, but none really inhibit what you want to do which is fuck with as fuck of their team as possible
- worst for Zac- Darius, Riven, Fiora, Jax, Jayce, Renekton - best for Zac
- With Zac, worst for Zac- Jayce, Jax, Fiora, Renekton, Darius, Riven- best for Zac
- Kayn, J4, Lee, Sej, Ez, Rammus: 5 have unwieldy knock ups, Ez and Kayn can prey on you with early invades and you can't really do anything about it, the rest teamfight pretty well, but not as well as Zac
- worst- Kayn, Ez, Rammus, Sej, J4, Lee - best
- Ori, Zed, Ahri, TF, Syndra, Yas: 3 are immobile as fuck, it is hard to stop Ahri and Zed from killing your carries, but all of them can be out team fighted pretty easily except Ori
- Ahri, Zed, Corki, Ori
- TF, Syndra, Ahri, Zed, Ori, Yas
- Trist, Xayah, Vayne, Twitch, Kog, Jinx: most can either kit you and fuck you up or have an ardent censor support preventing you from hurting them and will melt you
- Vayne, Xayah, Kog, Trist, Twitch, Jinx
- Xayah, Trist, Vayne, Jinx, Twitch, Kog (as you can tell, I think pretty highly of kog despite his immobility)
- Thresh, Lulu, Sona, Soraka, Janna, Rakan: most have knock-ups to keep you off their carries and force you to address them or it is very hard to kill their carry
- Janna, Lulu, Soraka, Thresh, Rakan, Sona
- Thresh, Sona, Soraka, Rakan, Janna, Lulu
Season 8 Back to Top
(4-17-18) plat +
Top- 3.5/10
- Irelia, Darius, Camille, Fiora, Sion, Riven: pretty squishy: Darius will out sustain you in a teamfight and dragging him towards your team could really hurt you without executioners: Fiora, Riven, Camille will rarely be close enough to the team to be caught in your CC, but neither really inhibit what you, stopping them from killing your carries isn't the easiest, but try your best: Sion you out front line him
- worst for Zac- Darius, Riven, Fiora, Sion - best for Zac
- With Zac, worst- Fiora, Camille, Sion, Darius, Riven- best for Zac
- Kayn, Kha, Lee, Warwick, Jax, Trundle, Yi, Rengar: 3 have unwieldy knock ups, Kayn and Rengar can prey on you with early invades and you can't really do anything about it, the rest can't get past Zac to kill carries in late game.
- worst- Kayn, Rengar, Warwick, Kha, Trundle, Yi, Lee - best
- Yas, Zed, TF, Fizz, Ahri, Ekko, Ori, Ryze: 3 are immobile as hell making them easy to solo out in fights. The assassins range in difficulty to stop from Zed, Fizz, Ekko, Ahri.
- Worst for Zac - Fizz, Zed, Ekko, Ryze, Ori, Yas, Ahri, TF
- Worst with Zac- Ahri, Ryze, Fizz, Zed, TF, Ekko, Ori, Yas
- Cait, Ez, Jhin, Xayah, Kai, Varus, Trist: Cait you can predict her E and besides that it is an easy kill: Ez is hard to pin done, but he hardly hurts you: Jhin is an easy kill: Xayah burns and her ult makes her really hard to catch, try to burn it: Kai will melt you late and is decently mobile: Varus and Trist easy kill, but puts out good damage
- Worst for Zac- Xayah, Kai, Ez, Trist, Cait, Varus, Jhin
- Worst with Zac- Ez, Varus, Jhin, Cait, Trist, Xayah
- Janna, Nami, Morg, Thresh, Lulu, Rakan, Karma: most have knock-ups to keep you off their carries and force you to address them or avoid them or it is very hard to kill their carry
- Janna, Lulu, Rakan, Nami, Thresh, Morg
- Thresh, Nami, Janna, Rakan, Morg, Lulu
General Over Divisions Back to Top
Zac is a champion that requires high macro and medium micro play to use to full potential. He can just be played as a disruptive tank like anyone else though.
Bronze- 7: Zac sheer stats makes him a strong but something is clearly lost.
Silver- 6: Zac is still hard to deal with but Zac still isn't being played effectively and people only got better
Gold- 7.5: Gold for me is the breaking point. People in gold are good and Zac can get some good Es
Plat- 8: Plat is the pinnacle of Zac play. It still holds the solo q mentality that allows you to punish stragglers without getting caught yourself, but also rewards big teamfights.
Diamond- 7.5: Although Zacs tend to have to be with their team and he loses a bit of solo q power. He remains strong through all stages for the game
Recent patch effects Back to Top
- Straight buff
- Possible to grab Liandry's second, but buy 300 armor as you have lots of heath and little resist
- The buffed part is the 1500 item so just holding that is strong as well
- Even against non-tanks it is strong
7.1
- Jungle exp changes good for Zac
- Best at raptors clear, just generally prioritize and take both sides raptors
4-3-17
The strength of BORK and lethality are pretty strong hits to Zac
Big Zac change 5-7-17
- The tank changes seem good for him so far
- More pick oriented and less team fight oriented
- Playing high farm, big team fighter Zac as I do seems to work, but more time needs to be spent looking for picks
5-17-17
With Zac change, he is in a good place
6-10-17
He is too easy to play for how complex they made his kit. He is too forgiving of bad play. This combined with the fact that we now have 10 bans makes it difficult to get him
Links (shameless self promotion) Back to Top
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Wins against
· Ryan Cho (Rengar top) as jungle Zac
· Bunnyfufuu (Thresh support) as support Janna (laminated shrimp)
· BigFatLP (Victor mid) as jungle Zac
· Riot Account (Ez adc) as jungle Zac, 8/8 in promos with diamond 2 mmr
· Riot Account (fizz mid) as jungle Zac, 7/7 in promos with diamond 2 mmr
· Locodoco? (Cait adc) as jungle Zac, 10-12-16
· Tobias Fate (tf mid) as jungle Zac, 10-21-16
· Trick2g (Udyr jg) as Zac jungle, 12-16-16
Doublelift (Jhin) as Zac jungle
WingsofDeath
Lose against
· HotShotGG (Kled top) as Lissandra mid
· Riot Afic (Raka supp) as jungle Zac
· West Coast Legend “RMU top” (Kennen top) as jungle Sej
· HotShotGG (Brand mid) as Zac mid, 10-19-16
· Stixxay (Vayne adc) as Zac jungle, 12-16-16
Played with
· Phreak (Jinx adc) as top Shen, lose
· Zirene (Kennen top) as jungle Zac, win
· Riot Bregor (Kench supp)
· BigFatLp (vik mid) (as Zac), lose 10-12-16
· Tobias Fate (gp mid) as Zac, lose 10-14-16
· Wingsofdeathx (riven top) as Zac, lose 10-14-16
· Redmercy (brand mid) as Zac, win 10-15-16
· GoodGuyGarry*4
· C9 Lemon (Zyra supp) as Zac, win 10-23-16
· Pink Ward (Shaco top) as Zac, win 12-8-16
· TwitchTvSysnickl (kog adc) as Zac, win (challenger rank 54)
· Otter (ez adc) as Zac, win 12-19-16
Where to Wait for teamfights as aggressor Back to Top
You aren't good at siege, you sit in the wings so you can charge E in fog of war and threaten the enemy to back up and kill them if they don't
If you are up sizably (5 kills as a team) and can hit either 2 people, at least 1 being a carry or 3 people total with E, go in
S- marks the whole team except possibly split pushing top laners
Green is a wards
J- marks you
Hugging the wraiths wall makes the ward in the bush not see you
Where to wait for teamfights as defender Back to Top
Your non committal wave clear is shit, you can only kinda safely E if enemies fall back.
If you are close (within 10 team kills), you can hit an enemy and minions with E within tower range killing all minions and keeping them under tower with ult and q