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The Zaun Amorphous Combatant in S3! (Jungle/Top) (Unfinished

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Choose Champion Build:

Jungle
Top (NOT DONE)

Spells:

Smite

Flash

Items

Starting Items

First Back/Early Core

Core Items

Possible Late Game Build

Ability Order

Zac Passive Ability

Introduction and Lore

Hello and welcome to my 2nd guide on Mobafire! This guide to will be focused on jungling but there will be tips for top lane as well. If you liked this guide, please support it in the form of upvoting, commenting, and even checking out my guide.

's lore
Zac is the product of a Zaun experiment to manufacture a hexchem-engineered supersoldier – the Zaun Amorphous Combatant. Combining brute strength with limitless flexibility, he is a versatile juggernaut: a creative fighter who bounces over obstacles and pounds his foes into submission. Though he was created inside a weapons laboratory, Zac was rescued and adopted by two loving parents who raised him to be a kind and friendly child. As the years passed, he grew up to be a fierce hero, sworn to protect the ordinary, everyday people of Zaun.
Long ago, two Zaun scientists developed an organic substance that could withstand extreme conditions, spontaneously alter its biological structure, and generate tremendous amounts of kinetic force. As the scientists, husband and wife, watched the prototype grow from a spoon-sized droplet to a small blob, they noticed that their creation would respond to their presence. It sprung forward when they called and bounced when they sang. The couple began to see more than an experiment; they saw a small child, filled with affection and joy.

After testing the prototype one evening, the scientists placed the blob back in its cage. It slouched and shuddered in the corner, inconsolably sad. At that moment, the couple realized that their beloved creation wished for a free life outside the lab. They were struck by their conscience and could not allow the prototype to be used as a weapon. The husband and wife fled with the young blob, replacing its weapon designation – Zaun Amorphous Combatant – with a proper name: Zac. In a quiet neighborhood far from the cities of Zaun, the scientists raised Zac as their own child.

Zac was always different from the other children. None had his powers of strength and flexibility, so the couple taught him to tell right from wrong and to use his gifts responsibly. Thanks to the care and affection of his loving parents, Zac lived a peaceful, happy childhood.

That childhood ended when the Zaun laboratory finally found Zac. Unable to replicate the formula used to create the amorphous prototype, the laboratory’s staff never stopped searching for the scientists and their experiment. When they tracked down the family, they threatened to tear it apart. The staff abducted Zac’s parents and demanded that the couple assist in his capture and return. Seized by the fear of losing his freedom and his parents, Zac unleashed every ounce of his raw energy and mass for the very first time. He subdued his parents’ captors, sent the laboratory’s workers fleeing, and brought his loved ones home. From then on, Zac vowed to defend all ordinary lives threatened by extraordinary treachery and wickedness. Originally built to destroy, he now protects the innocent and the helpless.

"Even if you don’t have a spine, you still have to stand up for yourself."
―Zac

is a AP Tank/bruiser that can be played in either jungle, top, or even mid. He excels at ganking due to his CC from and Let's Bounce, and a long-range gap closer from . He can sustain himself in the jungle via his passive, . His clear is very good thanks to his spammable AoE damage from . Overall, he is a strong pick right now and is pretty safe in the jungle with strong ganks.

Why you should play Zac (The Pros and Cons)

PROS

CONS

Good AoE Clear
Has sustain
% of max health damage
Long-range gap closer
Hard to kill
Great mobility
Can smite baron or dragon from over the wall
Has CC
Magic Pen works wonders with him
Anivia Passive

Melee
Abilities cost % of current health
His passive is extremely vulnerable to counterplay
His blobs are destroyed by people stepping on them
Revival takes ages, easily stopped
Ratios are mediocre
Can't change direction of while charging
No single target, meaning Liandry's and Rylai's are weaker

Runes

These are the runes you'll use most of your games.

really needs these. You won't be building much AP, so the damage your spells do deal are going to have to count. Also, you will be doing plenty damage since you have % of max health from . I can't think of any good options for marks, these are just too good.

You need armor to survive the jungle, and a little armor always helps against AD based champions. You probably are going to use these all the time because they are really the best option.

Here's where you have some choices. These are probably the best option, which is why I list them, but there are other choices. You can take if you're going for a more AP-oriented build, or if you're not afraid of taking a lot of magic damage, or you can opt for if you think you wont need the early magic resist.

These are the best choice you have unless you would rather take some form of defense. They give you a little bit of AP for earlygame damage. There are always tanking options like armor, magic resist, or health.

Masteries

You should end up using these masteries, however you have a lot of points you can shift around.

OFFENSE

DEFENSE

- Cooldown reduction is very strong on , it lets him use even more frequently, and that adds up to a lot of extra damage.

-> - Extra ability power per level is pretty self explanatory, more damage. I've already stated why magic penetration is very strong on , so it's really a no brainer to pick up these two masteries.

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-> - This has the most accurate name of all League of Legends masteries. It's called Durability, and you put points into it to get durability. Nothing more than that. also just gives you a little bit of extra health. Can make the difference between surviving or dying to that last tick of ignite or that last autoattack.

-> - NOTICE: DON'T TAKE THESE IF YOU'RE GOING TOP. This lets you stay a little bit healthier in the jungle as well as making you a little bit faster. It's not much, so you can ignore these and put the points elsewhere ( , , all come to mind. )

and - Good choices to get you a little bit tankier, they give armor and magic resist respectively. I would say is a must-have, however is not needed as much.

-> - These add up to 5 less damage taken per auto and 2 less damage per any kind of damage. Doesn't seem like a lot up front, but in game it adds up to hundreds and thousands of ignored points of damage. Pretty good masteries, but they are optional for those that think this is useless.

- You stack a lot of health. This gives you health to go with your health. Simple.

- Helps you take less damage from both the enemy ADC and that pesky wolf camp. When the ADC starts critting for 750+ damage ( , im looking at you...), this takes off 75 of that. Good mastery, but you could take something else like .

- Combine this with your armor, magic resist, and other damage reduction masteries, and suddenly you're taking a lot less damage. Okay, maybe not a lot less, but it definitely helps.

Summoner Spells

YOUR OPTIONS

You might be looking at this and saying that there are too many options, but really the choice is fairly obvious. For jungle, you will always want . No exceptions. You need . Without it, you're not really jungling. For your second choice, you will probably want some sort of mobility spell, either or . If they have slows, but not a lot of hard CC, is a good choice. If they have hard CC, you will want . You can choose if you're really manly and don't need an escape.

For top lane, there are some more things you can choose. Once again, unless you're a manly man, you're going to want a mobility spell. Same rules apply, either or . If you're looking to win your lane by killing your opponent, you want an offensive spell like or . Maybe even both if you're a man among men. (not a good idea). You can also take and pair it with either or to just farm your lane and then port places for ganks.

tl;dr, Jungle - and , Top - and .

Abilities and Ability Sequence

PASSIVE: Each time Zac hits an enemy with an ability, he sheds a chunk of himself that can be reabsorbed to restore 4% of his maximum health.
Upon taking fatal damage, Zac splits into 4 chunks that attempt to recombine. If any of these chunks remain after 8 seconds, he will revive with 10-50% health depending on the health of the surviving chunks. Each chunk has 12% of Zac's maximum health, and 50% of his armor and magic resistance. This effect cannot happen again for 300 seconds.

ACTIVE: Zac lashes out with an elastic punch, dealing magic damage (70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+0.5 per ability power) to all enemies hit and slowing them by (20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 %) for 2 seconds.

ACTIVE: Zac's body erupts, dealing magic damage equal to a base amount (40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100) plus a percentage of their maximum health (4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 % (+2% per 100 ability power) to all nearby enemies (max 200 damage against minions and monsters).

ACTIVE: Zac faces the cursor and begins charging (0.9 / 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 seconds). After charging or after reactivating the ability, he launches himself towards the target location, dealing magic damage (80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+0.7 per ability power) to all enemies hit and knocking them back for 0.5 seconds. This ability can be cancelled by moving, refunding 50% of the health cost.

Let's Bounce

ACTIVE: Zac leaps into the air and begins to bounce on the ground, up to a maximum of 4 bounces. Each bounce deals magic damage (160 / 240 / 320 (+0.25 per ability power) to nearby enemies, knocks them up for 1 second, and slows them by 20% for 1 second. Enemies hit more than once take half damage and are not knocked up.
Zac gains an accelerating movement speed buff (20-50%) and 75% crowd control reduction while active (does not reduce Suppression). Zac can right-click to move while in the air. While active, Zac is unable to activate Stretching Strike of Elastic Slingshot.

Now that you know what 's abilities do, you might be wondering in what order you should rank them up. Here's the main order you should use.

Now, you may be wondering why I max over . It's because the range on will increase per level, allowing more mobility and better ganks. Now, you can max over if you are either top lane or not concerned about ganking too much, or if you think rank 1 is good enough. Maxing over will give you faster clear, and maxing over will give you better ganks. Choose wisely.

Items

Jungling and Ganking

can start at either Blue or Red. Blue is the better choice since you get extra CDR to clear faster. As a typical jungle route, you will want to do something like this;

Wolves -> Blue -> Wraiths -> Double Golems -> Red -> Wraiths -> Situational

After this, the situational part is to choose if you will farm or gank. If you farm you will want to get a few more camps so you can go back to buy and . If you gank, choose a lane that you can kill successfully with your low early damage but good CC. After you gank you will want to go back or farm a little more, depending on your HP.

The thing that makes 's ganks so strong is the fact that he can appear out of no where with . Here's a map with potential ganking jump directions for different teams. Some of the paths can be shut down by wards or positioning, so they will not work 100% of the time.