League of Legends: Updated Zac Changes

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By Matt Best


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Zac has been under the League of Legends microscope as of late. Three days ago, RiotShrieve released the following list of changes for Zac:

Stretching Strikes (Q)

  • Base Damage: reduced 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 >>> 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75
  • Damage Scaling Based upon Zac's Max Health: 4% (NEW)
  • Slow Duration: .25 >>> .5 seconds (hotfixed during 7.9)
  • Collision Damage AoE Size: 200 >>> 300
  • Q2 Bonus Attack Range: increased 100 >>> 125 (300 total)
  • Q2 Passive Blob Generation: previously Q2 would spawn a second blob only if each attack hit a unique champion, now spawns as long as it hits a unique unit
  • Q2 Targeting: redirects Q2 attacks to a non-grabbed target when multiple enemies are stacked on top of one another (i.e. jungle raptors)
  • Spell Queuing: smoother queuing E when slamming targets together, W can be cast during Q2 and while slamming targets together

Elastic Slingshot (E)

  • Base Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 >>> 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (hotfixed during 7.9)
  • Knockup Duration: now scales from .5 >>> 1 second based upon how long Zac charges before release (NEW)

Out of all those changes, only a few of them made it through to the PBE. Those changes are as follows:

Stretching Strikes (Q)

  • Base damage lowered from 50/70/90/110/130 to 40/50/60/70/80
  • Damage now has 4% health scaling
  • Collision AoE size increased from 200 to 300
  • Knockup Duration: now scales from 0.5 to 1.0 second based upon how long Zac charges before release.

Let's Bounce (R)

  • Time to full charge time increased from 1 second to 1.1 seconds.
  • [Full charge slow duration seems to be increased - 0.5 seconds to 1 second.]

As it stands, Zac is statistically the worst jungler in League of Legends. Don't believe me? His 41.76% win rate says otherwise as he has the lowest win rate among the 46 other qualified junglers in the game. To put that into perspective, prior to the latest patch, Zac was the twelfth most played jungler in the game. He plummeted 29 spots and ended up as the worst. Despite not being successful, League of Legends players keep playing him. His 5.92% play rate actually puts him within the top ten of the most played junglers.

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