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How to Win Zac vs K'Sante Counter MatchupZac is in the s tier of champions

Zac vs K'Sante

How to Beat K'Sante as Zac in LoLZac is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat K'Sante as Zac

based on 1,502 Zac vs K'Sante matchups
Win Rate
51.5 %
K/D/A
3.22
Pick Rate
1.8 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We generate our matchup stats from the millions of ranked League of Legends rounds that we analyze each week. This guide on how to beat K'Sante as Zac came out of an analysis of 1502 ranked games where both champs faced off against each other. This counter pairing is fairly rare. Zac fights K'Sante in only 1.8% of his games.

Zac vs K'Sante Matchup Summary

Zac has done a decent job of beating K'Sante. Typically, he wins a acceptable 51.5% of matches the champions oppose each other in. In Zac vs K'Sante games, Zac’s team is 0.2% more probable to obtain first blood, indicating that he probably will get first blood against K'Sante.

Best Zac vs K'Sante Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsBami's Cinder

Core Zac Items

~22 Mins
Sunfire AegisThornmailRanduin's Omen

Optional Items

Abyssal MaskRiftmakerSpirit VisageUnending Despair

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Zac to level upw
>
Second ability for Zac to level upe
>
Last skill for Zac to max outq

Runes

ResolveAftershockFont of LifeConditioningRevitalize
PrecisionTriumphLegend: Tenacity
Ability HasteAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Zac's passive ability p
Zac's q ability q
Zac's w ability w
Zac's e ability e
Zac's ultimate ability r
1
W
2
Q
3
E
4
W
5
W
6
R
7
W
8
E
9
W
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E
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R
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E
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E
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Q
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Q
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R

Guide to Countering K'Sante as Zac

Tips for Playing as Zac against K'Sante

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 K'Sante

Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.

Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.

Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.

Zac vs K'Sante Counter Stats

Zac Image
Win Rate
51.5 %
VS
Win Rate
48.5 %
K'Sante Image
4.7
< Kills >
5
4.9
< Deaths >
5.5
11.1
< Assists >
6.9
1.08
< Killing Sprees >
1.13
67
< Minions Killed >
177
1
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.41
< Inhibitors >
0.43
1,544
< Physical Damage >
15,772
15,813
< Magic Damage >
3,937
1,182
< True Damage >
2,229
18,540
< Damage Dealt >
21,939
42,277
< Damage Taken >
32,176
10,941
< Gold Earned >
11,251
1.57
< Towers >
2.26
0.25
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
44,564
< Total Healing >
5,166
13,283
< Experience >
14,926
23
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
462
< Time Dealing CC >
1,078

How to Counter K'Sante with Zac in LoL

The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Zac vs. K'Sante counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.

Zac usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.

Differences between Zac and K'Sante

Damage Types Compared

Zac
K'Sante
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Zac
K'Sante

Who is Better, Zac or K'Sante?

Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a good counter for K'Sante.

While Zac does have a higher winrate than K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zac into K'Santeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Additionally, Zac has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs K'Sante matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.

Zac is a decent counter for K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zac against K'Sante.

Other Champion Matchups Against Zac

Zac Loses Against

LilliaLillia44.5% winrateKledKled46.7% winrateMordekaiserMordekaiser47% winrateRenata GlascRenata Glasc47.4% winrate

Zac Wins Against

NidaleeNidalee60.1% winrateYuumiYuumi57.9% winrateZoeZoe57.3% winrateKarthusKarthus57.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

BardBard+ 55.6% 2434 GamesMaster YiMaster Yi+ 55.9% 1531 GamesLilliaLillia+ 57.2% 1878 GamesViVi+ 58.5% 892 Games

Additional Information for Zac Players

How We Calculated Our Zac vs K'Sante Build and Stats

For this guide on countering K'Sante as Zac, we analyzed 1,502 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter K'Sante as Zac comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

Zac Build K'Sante Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Zac usually gets less CS compared to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.

The ideal items to use in your Zac versus K'Sante build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering K'Sante than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against K'Sante with these items in his kit.

To have the highest chance of annihilating K'Sante 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 builds players chose for Zac vs K'Sante counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.

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