Zac vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Zac
based on 1,156 Zac vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Zac vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Zac against Shyvana counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Shyvana. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zac normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shyvana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Zac or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Shyvana, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a great counter to Shyvana.
While Zac does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Shyvanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. 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 Shyvana matchups, Zac is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zac is a great counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Shyvana.
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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 Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zac versus Shyvana build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Shyvana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 53.6% when playing against Shyvana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Shyvana as Zac, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Zac vs Shyvana counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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