Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 stats provided here feature some critical Taliyah against Zac matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zac..
Taliyah normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Zac. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Zac, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes an ok counter to Zac.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate compared to Zac, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Zac.
Additionally, Taliyah also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Zac. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Zac.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah on average racks up more CS relative to Zac. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Zac build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Zac than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Zac with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Zac as Taliyah, Taliyah players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Taliyah vs Zac matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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