Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Diana against Zac matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zac. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Diana often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually loses when trying to fight Zac, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a bad counter to Zac.
While Diana does have a lower winrate than Zac, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Diana into Zac.
Furthermore, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Diana 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 allies during team fights.
Diana is a trash counter for Zac. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Diana against Zac.
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana most often gets more CS as Zac. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Diana versus Zac build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Zac than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Zac with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Zac as Diana, Diana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Diana vs Zac clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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