Best way to play Zac?

Velasan·Jun 18, 2015·2 votes·783 views

So, I've been getting into playing Zac because his pool party skin is coming out.

Surprisingly I actually am having a good time with him. First 5 games won 4 and lost 1.

However, I'm trying to figure out how people usually play Zac. Do you play him full tank or tanky with AP items?

I've seen some people build him with rylais and abyssal and others go full tank. Not sure about this with masteries either. Should I be taking all the AP masteries or figure he doesn't get enough from AP and go deeper into defense tree?

At this point I'm building him nearly full tank with cinderhulk and that seems to be working, but I'm still new to Zac.

Any suggestions?

3 Comments

SquidblimpJun 18, 20152 votes

I've just picked him up recently. I'd recommend 9/21/0 masteries with CDR and AP in offense and making sure to get the increased healing mastery in defense to increase the healing on his passive. For runes, spell pen and scaling HP/flat armor are decent. I also like scaling CDR but that's just me.

For builds, full tank is the way to go. His healing passive scales with his max HP, so pick up that cinderhulk. If they have AD, go randuins. If they have AP, go spirit visage. Spirit visage is very good on Zac because it increases his healing on his passive.

Merc treads are great on Zac too. Warmogs is great. Liandry's is great as a 4th or 5th item if you're far ahead and they are building a lot of HP.

LegacyDAPJun 18, 20151 votes

Build him Tanky and give him some AP items. Rylai's is always a great choice.

A5W9VPIhgQJun 18, 20151 votes

right now in this meta, I have lost 1 plat game to a jungle zac that's build was (AP jungler item, Zonyas, tank items) he really did carry, i think building him ap and ganking squishy lanes is strong because of his amazing jump range, no one has played against zac for so long we kept on getting cought on and ulted just to die from him

2 ap items, then all tank, carry game if good