Zac vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Zac
based on 2,850 Zac vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Zac vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Zac vs. Garen counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zac normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Garen
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Who is Better, Zac or Garen?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a great counter for Garen.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Garen matchups, Zac is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zac is a great counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Garen during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac usually accumulates less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zac versus Garen build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 53.5% when playing against Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Garen 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 combinations we have analyed for Zac vs Garen LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% win rate overall.
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