ZAC's damage seems a bit outta whack

Glîtchy·Jun 8, 2017·2 votes·294 views

I was against a full tank ZAC a couple days ago, and after rewatching the replay, I noticed how he did a STUPID amount of damage with only 19 AP, acn anyone explain how the hell this was possible?

9 Comments

fuffychanJun 8, 20172 votes

This is old news. Anyone who has played ADC has known this for years. He can basically 1shot you because he has literally 4 damage spells and (had) one that hit multiple times.

undesirable teamJun 8, 20171 votes

because he is broken?

GlîtchyJun 8, 20171 votes

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because he is broken?

Well what I mean is, if his damage is supposed to scale with 20% of his AP for example, shouldn't it be abysmal damage?

CrettJun 8, 20171 votes

they're nerfing his Q and E's base damage, so you probably are right

GlîtchyJun 8, 20171 votes

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they're nerfing his Q and E's base damage, so you probably are right

What exactly is up with his damage scaling tho?

CrettJun 9, 20171 votes

scaling isnt the problem; you said it yourself, the dude had barely any AP. it's probably base damage (E alone does 280 damage at level 9) + maybe mag pen and masteries. its getting nerfed though

zac has a lot of damaging abilities with high bases, w even does percent damage, so his damage has always been scary

GlîtchyJun 9, 20171 votes

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scaling isnt the problem; you said it yourself, the dude had barely any AP. it's probably base damage (E alone does 280 damage at level 9) + maybe mag pen and masteries. its getting nerfed though

zac has a lot of damaging abilities with high bases, w even does percent damage, so his damage has always been scary

I used to play him but stopped once I saw how op he was after the rework

KuwabaramulberryJun 9, 20171 votes

His bases are a bit high. And all of his abilities except w have cc attached to them. However, I don't think any zac ever has dove in on anyone by himself. I admit, I've been playing zac recently and am sad that nerfs are happening.

However I'm not quite sure if the naysayers are taking into account that zac is a fairly team reliant champ. He can very rarely 100-0 someone. And his dueling is quite God damn terrible.

The one thing that's pushed him over the top is giving him yet another cc in the form of a displacement, on top of the slow that was there before

Meep ManJun 9, 20171 votes

His W and E deal a ton of damage without any scaling. E deals 280 base damage and W deals a constant 100 + 8% max health AoE magic damage every, what, like 2-3 seconds based on how many blobs are around. I was surprised they didn't rework his W if they wanted his damage to be less instant since his W is basically just an add on to his E and then a really good Sunfire Cape from then on.