Brand vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Brand
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Brand vs Zac Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zac as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Zac
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Brand vs. Zac matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zac. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Brand normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Zac
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Who is Better, Brand or Zac?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when playing against Zac, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter to Zac.
While Brand does have a lower win rate than Zac, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Zac.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Zac. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Brand versus Zac build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Brand combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Zac than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Zac with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Zac as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Brand vs Zac face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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