Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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 stats provided here clarify several strategic Rumble vs. Zac counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Rumble’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rumble may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zac..
Rumble usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rumble usually loses when facing off against Zac, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Rumble makes a bad counter to Zac.
While Rumble does have a lower win rate compared to Zac, when on opposite teams, Rumble also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Rumble into Zacas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rumble has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Rumble vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Rumble is a bad counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rumble against Zac.
To truly master Rumble in order to counter Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rumble on average gets more CS relative to Zac. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Rumble versus Zac build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Zac than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Zac with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Zac as Rumble, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Rumble vs Zac face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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