Zac vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Zac
based on 4,902 Zac vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Akali
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Zac vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Zac in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Zac against Akali counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zac usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Akali
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Who is Better, Zac or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a great counter to Akali.
While Zac does have a higher win rate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Akali matchups, Zac is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zac is a great counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zac against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Akali during both the early game 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically accumulates less CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zac versus Akali build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Akali than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 53.3% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Akali as Zac, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zac vs Akali LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Akali as Zac are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.