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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats provided here highlight several important Zac against Soraka matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Zac often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Soraka, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Sorakaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Soraka matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zac against Soraka.
If you would like to truly master Zac to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically gets more CS relative to Soraka. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zac versus Soraka build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Soraka than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 51.3% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Soraka as Zac, Zac players should equip 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 chose for Zac vs Soraka clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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