Zac vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Zac
based on 1,655 Zac vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Zac vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Zac vs. Azir matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zac normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Azir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Azir
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Who is Better, Zac or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zac usually fairs equally well when facing off against Azir, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes an ok counter to Azir.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Zac also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Azir matchups, Zac is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zac is a decent counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac on average accumulates less CS relative to Azir. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zac versus Azir build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Azir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Azir with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Azir as Zac, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zac vs Azir face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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