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Zac Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 4,181 gamesUpdated

51.8%win rate0.2%pick0.8%ban

Who counters Zac

Every Top matchup for Zac, ranked →

How to build Zac

Plated Steelcaps→Sunfire Aegis→Spirit Visage→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Sunfire Aegis → Spirit Visage → Thornmail

55.9% win rate 23% of games 562 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindRevitalizePrecisionLast StandLegend: Haste45% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite65%
Skills
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Stretching Strikes
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Unstable Matter
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Elastic Slingshot
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Let's Bounce!
61116
StartDoran's HelmHealth PotionDoran's Helm, Health Potion
Full Zac build →
51.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.4% over 9,923 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.8% over 4,181 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.3%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
0.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.9%under 22 min
50.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Zac champion portraitT ZacvsShen champion portraitT Shen
8 / 8 / 9

Build

Mercury's Treads|Liandry's Torment→Riftmaker→Void Staff

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Zac champion portraitT ZacvsMordekaiser champion portraitT Mordekaiser
4 / 0 / 2

Build

Mercury's Treads|Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEWWRWEEEREW
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Zac champion portraitT ZacvsSejuani champion portraitT Sejuani
2 / 3 / 2

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Hollow Radiance→Thornmail

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRWEWEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 52.7% win rate · 45% of games · 1,677 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindRevitalize
PrecisionLast StandLegend: Haste
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.9% win rate · 11% of games · 433 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindRevitalize
PrecisionLegend: HasteLast Stand
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite65%52.9%2,753 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport29%49.8%1,248 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps50%Mercury's Treads27%Ionian Boots of Lucidity15%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 52.3% win rate

Zac build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Sunfire Aegis1st
  2. Thornmail2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path54.4% win rate136 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zac →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,156 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
50% · 52.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 50.6% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
15% · 56.8% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 44.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 44.4% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
1% · 63.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 39.4% win rate · 165 games
  2. Sunfire Aegis›Spirit Visage+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 45.9% win rate · 146 games
  3. Sunfire Aegis›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 41.2% win rate · 97 games
  4. Sunfire Aegis›Thornmail›Spirit Visage+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 56.6% win rate · 76 games
  5. Thornmail›Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 45.8% win rate · 59 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Zac against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Zac's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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