Illaoi vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Illaoi
based on 1,583 Illaoi vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Zac
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Illaoi versus Zac counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zac. This observation is largely a result of the differences in deaths.
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Zac. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Zac
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Zac?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Zac, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Zac.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate than Zac, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Zac.
Moreover, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Zac matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Zac. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Zac during both the laning 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 suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average gets much more CS as Zac. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Illaoi versus Zac build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Zac than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Zac with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zac as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Illaoi vs Zac counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zac as Illaoi are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.