Zac vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Zac
based on 1,881 Zac vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Zac vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Zac in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Zac vs. Talon counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Talon. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zac usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Talon. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Talon
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Who is Better, Zac or Talon?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Talon, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a good counter to Talon.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Talon, when on opposite teams, Zac also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zac into Talonas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Talon matchups, Zac is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Talon. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Talon.
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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 Talon 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 should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac most often accumulates less CS relative to Talon. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zac versus Talon build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Talon with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Talon 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 builds players chose for Zac vs Talon matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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