Zac vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Zac
based on 1,123 Zac vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Zac vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Zac vs. Jayce matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between these two champions. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jayce. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Zac usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Jayce. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Jayce
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Who is Better, Zac or Jayce?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 56.6% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a fantastic counter for Jayce.
While Zac does have a much higher winrate compared to Jayce, when facing one another, Zac also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Jayceas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Jayce 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 team members during team fights.
Zac is a great counter to Jayce. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often racks up less CS as Jayce. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zac versus Jayce build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Jayce than with most other common builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 56.6% when playing against Jayce with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Jayce as Zac, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Zac vs Jayce counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.6% winrate overall.
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