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How to Win Zac vs Leona Counter MatchupZac is in the s tier of champions

Zac vs Leona

How to Beat Leona as Zac in LoLZac is in the s tier of champions
TankFighter
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How to Beat Leona as Zac

based on 2,995 Zac vs Leona matchups
Win Rate
53.1 %
K/D/A
3.43
Pick Rate
3.5 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we evaluate millions of recently ranked League of Legends rounds each week. In our database, Zac did battle with Leona in 2995 matches. Including so many games with Zac vs Leona gives us a lot of faith in our capability to prepare useful stats and a solid build to suppress your opposition. This champion pairing is fairly rare. Zac has to counter Leona in only 3.5% of his matches.

Zac vs Leona Matchup Summary

Zac has done a good job of countering Leona. Normally, he wins a terrific 53.1% of matches the champs oppose each other in. In Zac against Leona rounds, Zac’s team is 0.1% less likely to get first blood. This indicates that he most likely won't get first blood versus Leona.

Best Zac vs Leona Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Cloth ArmorBami's Cinder

Core Zac Items

~22 Mins
Spirit VisageSunfire AegisJak'Sho, The Protean

Optional Items

Iceborn GauntletLiandry's TormentAbyssal MaskRiftmaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

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

Runes

ResolveAftershockFont of LifeConditioningRevitalize
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Ability HasteArmorHealth 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
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W
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Q
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E
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E
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E
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R
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Guide to Countering Leona as Zac

Tips for Playing as Zac against Leona

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 Leona

When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.

Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.

Zac vs Leona Counter Stats

Zac Image
Win Rate
53.1 %
VS
Win Rate
46.9 %
Leona Image
4.8
< Kills >
2.1
4.9
< Deaths >
6.4
12
< Assists >
13.6
1.1
< Killing Sprees >
0.36
58
< Minions Killed >
32
1.05
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.43
< Inhibitors >
0.39
1,403
< Physical Damage >
2,810
15,524
< Magic Damage >
6,986
1,189
< True Damage >
1,185
18,116
< Damage Dealt >
10,982
40,932
< Damage Taken >
23,793
10,874
< Gold Earned >
8,548
1.55
< Towers >
1.43
0.25
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
43,361
< Total Healing >
2,858
13,131
< Experience >
10,396
22
< Vision Score >
57
7
< Wards Placed >
24
453
< Time Dealing CC >
236

How to Counter Leona with Zac in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize several significant Zac vs. Leona counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona..

Zac typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Zac and Leona

Damage Types Compared

Zac
Leona
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Zac
Leona

Who is Better, Zac or Leona?

Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Leona, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a great counter for Leona.

While Zac does have a higher winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Furthermore, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Leona 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 team members during team fights.

Zac is a great counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zac against Leona.

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 Leona Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Leona as Zac, we analyzed 2,995 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 Leona 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 Leona Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Zac to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Zac most often accumulates more CS as Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.

The ideal items to have in your Zac versus Leona build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 53.1% battling Leona with this counter build.

To have the best likelihood of defeating Leona as Zac, Zac players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Zac vs Leona counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.

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