Zac vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Zac
based on 4,087 Zac vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Zac vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Zac against Master Yi counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zac typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Master Yi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Zac or Master Yi?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Master Yi, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Zac makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Zac does have a higher win rate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Master Yias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zac vs Master Yi matchups, Zac is the better champ with a similar 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 to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zac against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac often gets more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zac versus Master Yi build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Master Yi as Zac, Zac players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zac vs Master Yi face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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