Zac vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Zac
based on 2,597 Zac vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Zac vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some vital Zac against Malzahar matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Zac usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Zac or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when taking on Malzahar, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a good counter for Malzahar.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Zac also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zac into Malzaharas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Malzahar matchups, Zac is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac in order to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zac versus Malzahar build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Malzahar as Zac, Zac players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zac vs Malzahar face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Zac are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.