In-depth Dangerous AP Zac Guide (latest patch) - The dangerous AP Jelly!
AP Zac Summoner Spells:
- Smite: Essential for jungling, securing objectives, and enhancing jungle items.
- Flash: Provides mobility, escape, and playmaking potential.
AP Zac Runes:
Primary (Resolve):
- Keystone: Aftershock - Synergizes well with Zac's engage potential.
- Font of Life: Enhances Zac's crowd control with healing for allies.
- Conditioning: Boosts Zac's resistances in the mid to late game.
- Revitalize: Increases healing from Zac's passive blobs.
Secondary (Precision):
- Transcendece: Get ability haste.
- Waterwalking: Gain movement speed, AP & AD while in the river.
Stat Shards:
+8 Ability Haste
+6 Armor
+15-140HP (lvls 1-18)
AP Zac Starting Items:
Mosstomper Seedling:
Grants bonus health and sustain, ensuring you stay healthy during your jungle clears and are less vulnerable to invades.
Health Potionn:
Restores health.
Stealth Ward:
Vision is crucial in the jungle. This allows you to ward key areas or objectives.
Boots:
Boots Options:
Sorcerer's Shoes:
- Why: Provides magic penetration which enhances your damage output.
- When to Buy: If the enemy team has little to no magic resist and you're looking to maximize your damage.
Plated Steelcaps:
- Why: Offers armor and reduces damage from basic attacks.
- When to Buy: If the enemy team has heavy AD or auto-attack reliant champions.
Mercury's Treads:
- Why: Grants magic resist and tenacity.
- When to Buy: If the enemy team has high AP or crowd control.
Mythic Item:
Hextech Rocketbelt:
- Why: Provides health, AP, and a dash that can be used offensively or defensively. The dash also deals damage.
- When to Buy: If you need more mobility or gap-closing ability.
Riftmaker:
- Why: Grants omnivamp, AP, and bonus damage the longer you're in combat.
- When to Buy: If you're looking for sustained fights and need the healing.
Night Harvester:
- Why: Offers AP, health, and a passive that deals bonus damage to champions.
- When to Buy: If you're looking to burst down enemies quickly.
AP Zac Final Build:
Riftmaker:
- Why: Grants omnivamp, AP, and bonus damage the longer you're in combat.
- When to Buy: If you're looking for sustained fights and need the healing.
Sorcerer's Shoes:
- Why: Provides magic penetration which enhances your damage output.
- When to Buy: If the enemy team has little to no magic resist and you're looking to maximize your damage.
Demonic Embrace:
- Why: Provides AP, health, and a burn effect on abilities.
- When to Buy: If you want to increase your damage over time in fights.
Zhonya's Hourglass:
- Why: Grants AP, armor, and a stasis effect.
- When to Buy: If you're being focused in fights or need to avoid key enemy abilities.
Spirit Visage:
- Why: Enhances all sources of healing, provides health, and magic resist.
- When to Buy: If you have other sources of healing on your team or if the enemy has high AP damage.
Rabadon's Deathcap:
- Why: Massively boosts your AP.
- When to Buy: If you're looking to maximize your damage output.
AP Zac Ability Details & Skill Order:
P (Cell Division): Zac's passive allows him to split into blobs when he dies, potentially reviving him.
Q (Stretching Strikes): Levels at 2, 14, 15, 17, 18.
W (Unstable Matter): Levels at 1, 8, 10, 12, 13.
E (Elastic Slingshot): Levels at 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.
R (Let's Bounce!): Levels at 6, 11, 16.
AP Zac General Playstyle:
Early Game:
Focus on farming and look for gank opportunities with your E. Zac's ganks are strong due to his long-range engage.
Mid Game:
Engage in team fights and use your ultimate to disrupt the enemy backline.
Late Game:
Act as the primary engage for your team and peel for your carries.
Farming:
- Use W to clear jungle camps quickly.
- Use E to traverse the jungle and reach camps faster.
AP Zac Teamfight:
- Engage with E and follow up with your ultimate to disrupt the enemy team.
- Use Q to crowd control key targets.
- Remember your passive can save you, so don't be afraid to engage.
AP Zac Objectives:
Dragon: Use E to engage or steal the dragon. Remember to smite.
Baron: Same as dragon, but be more cautious due to Baron's damage and the potential for enemy ambushes.
AP Zac Matchups:
Toughest Matchups: Lillia, Bel'Veth, Trundle, Kindred, Jarvan IV, Fiddlesticks, Maokai, Rek'Sai, Taliyah, Udyr.
Additional Advice on how to play AP Zac:
- Always be aware of your passive's cooldown. It can save you in tight situations.
- Zac's E can be charged for a longer range, use this to your advantage for surprise ganks.
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