Zac vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Zac
based on 790 Zac vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Zac vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some vital Zac vs. Kalista counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zac often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Kalista
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Who is Better, Zac or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Kalista 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 team fights.
Zac is a good counter for Kalista. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac on average accumulates less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zac versus Kalista build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 52.5% battling Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Kalista as Zac, Zac players 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Zac vs Kalista battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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