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 feature several critical Yone versus Zac counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zac. This observation is largely caused by the differences in deaths.
Yone normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yone usually loses when taking on Zac, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a poor counter to Zac.
While Yone does have a lower win rate compared to Zac, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Yone into Zacas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yone is a garbage counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yone against Zac.
If you would like to truly master Yone to counter Zac during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone typically gets much more CS compared to Zac. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yone versus Zac build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Yone included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Zac than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when countering Zac with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Zac as Yone, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Yone vs Zac matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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