It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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 here feature some strategic Shyvana against Zac matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zac..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Zac. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Zac, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a bad counter to Zac.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate than Zac, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Shyvana into Zac.
Furthermore, Shyvana has only a small 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shyvana is a trash counter to Zac. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Zac.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to counter Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zac. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Zac build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Zac than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 46.4% battling Zac with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zac as Shyvana, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Shyvana vs Zac LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zac as Shyvana are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.