Zac vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Zac
based on 4,016 Zac vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Zac vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Zac vs. Kayn counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayn..
Zac often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayn. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Kayn
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Who is Better, Zac or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Kayn, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a good counter to Kayn.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Kayn, when facing one another, Zac also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zac into Kaynas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Kayn matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zac is a decent counter to Kayn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zac against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac on average racks up more CS relative to Kayn. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zac versus Kayn build include Unending Despair, Spirit Visage, and Sunfire Aegis. When Zac included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kayn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 51.9% battling Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Kayn as Zac, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Zac vs Kayn matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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