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A fair adjustment to increase Zac viability in Diamond and above

flyingbaklava·7/27/2016, 3:31:49 AM·4 votes·892 views

Zac is a champion that relies on successfully landing an elastic slingshot to have an impact in teamfights. I notice that at the highest ELO's of League of Legends, Zac struggles because it is really hard to land it due to the fact that the Shadow it produces is too obvious and telegraphs the ability. Either all critical targets leave the area before you land, or someone knocks you out of Elastic Slingshot. I am no longer surprised when an Alistar groundslam or Thresh flay knocks me out of Elastic Slingshot. Before reaching Diamond, I was almost never knocked out of Elastic Slingshot (maybe one out of 10 games).
I would like to see Zac back in Pro level play, so I think a fair suggestion would be to give Zac the Malzahar treatment. Malzahar was given a passive that would allow him to get his ultimate off without instantly getting stunned out of it. I suggest that Zac be immune to knockups while using Elastic Slingshot. It would not impact Elo's below platinum, and make a lot of sense as it is unrealistic to imagine this massive pile of goo flying through the air only to be stopped by alistar smashing the ground. I feel like this adjustmant still allows a lot of counterplay (since you usually have over a second from the moment the shadow appears to when Zac lands) and would bring back viability to Leagues most flexible champion at the highest ELO's, without impacting him at lower ELO's. Who doesn't want to see Zac back in the LCS?

20 Comments

Caítlyn7/27/2016, 3:46:08 AM2 votes

He has Malphites ult with more then double the range and a 10s cd. He doesnt need buffs.

GaleWinUnleashed7/27/2016, 3:51:03 PM2 votes

I had a lot of fun playing an ARAM against Zac a while ago. I was Syndra, and I'd just keep knocking him back when he tried to jump in. Completely shut him out of every fight he tried to start.

Of course this doesn't happen to me when I play Zac (my go-to jungler if for some reason I didn't get support) down at my Silver/Gold MMR, but I can understand how devastating consistent interruption can be to his all-in playstyle.

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Friendly Ram7/27/2016, 4:31:05 AM1 votes

Not sure on all the downvotes but whenever i have dealt with zac the chaos of teamfights completely covered his shadow. Also cc immunity is saved for ultis so might want to rethink this.

colesy7/27/2016, 6:21:27 AM1 votes

erm zac is fine in diamond, if you're getting interrupted too easily you need to play better

LadyRenly7/27/2016, 4:29:38 PM1 votes

thats literally zacs counterplay. hes zero fun to play against with his bs passive, and his boatload of cc. Doesn't matter if bronze doesn't utilize it, it's still counterplay. Once Zac is on top of you, its gg. Playing immobile adcs like Kog give me cancer as it is, not having my Janna being able to knock him away would be infuriating

This would give me nightmares, no please