Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Janna against Zac counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zac. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Zac, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter to Zac.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Zac, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Janna into Zacas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Zac matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Zac. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Zac.
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Zac during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets less CS relative to Zac. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Janna versus Zac build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Zac than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Zac with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Zac as Janna, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Janna vs Zac matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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