Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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 clarify several strategic Lee Sin against Zac counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zac..
Lee Sin often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Zac. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when facing off against Zac, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a poor counter for Zac.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate than Zac, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lee Sin into Zac.
Additionally, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a bad counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Zac.
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to counter Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often picks up less CS as Zac. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Zac build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Zac than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Zac with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zac as Lee Sin, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lee Sin vs Zac clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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