Zac vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Zac
based on 1,380 Zac vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Nilah
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 Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Zac vs. Nilah counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zac usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Nilah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Nilah
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Who is Better, Zac or Nilah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually fairs equally well when taking on Nilah, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Zac makes an ok counter for Nilah.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Nilah, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Nilah matchups, Zac is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zac is a decent counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zac to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically picks up less CS compared to Nilah. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zac versus Nilah build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Nilah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Nilah as Zac, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zac vs Nilah counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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