Zac vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Zac
based on 1,220 Zac vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Zac vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Zac in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Zac against Kassadin matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zac normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Kassadin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Zac or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Zac makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Zac does have a lower win rate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Zac also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zac is a somewhat poor counter to Kassadin. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zac against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often accumulates less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zac versus Kassadin build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Kassadin than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Kassadin 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 rune sets players picked for Zac vs Kassadin LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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