Riven vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Riven
based on 2,779 Riven vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Zac
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Riven versus Zac counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zac..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Zac
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Who is Better, Riven or Zac?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Zac, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a bad counter to Zac.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Zac, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Zacas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a terribly counter to Zac. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up more CS as Zac. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Riven versus Zac build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Zac than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Zac with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Zac as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Zac face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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