Zac vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Zac
based on 1,067 Zac vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Naafiri
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.
Zac vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Zac versus Naafiri counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Naafiri. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zac typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Naafiri. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Zac or Naafiri?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Naafiri, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a good counter for Naafiri.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Naafiri, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zac into Naafirias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often 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 Naafiri matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Naafiri. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to counter Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often picks up less CS relative to Naafiri. Champions who typically 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zac versus Naafiri build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Naafiri as Zac, you 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 used for Zac vs Naafiri counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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