Alistar vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Alistar
based on 1,538 Alistar vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Zac
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.
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.
Alistar vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Alistar vs. Zac matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zac’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zac..
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Zac
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Who is Better, Alistar or Zac?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Zac, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a poor counter for Zac.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Zac, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Zacas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a garbage counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often accumulates less CS compared to Zac. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Alistar versus Zac build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Zac than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 47.7% battling Zac with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Zac as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Alistar vs Zac LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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