Zac vs Malphite Counter Pick

Two tanks with mirror-image damage profiles face off here, and the data is limited: 105 games on patch 16.13.1 gave Zac a 58.1% win rate, which is a useful hint but not a firm verdict. Malphite is the harder body to get through, starting at 40 base armour and reaching 124.2 by level 18, while Zac goes from 33 to 112.9. Granite Shield soaks up to a tenth of his maximum health once he has avoided damage for a few seconds. The problem is that the shield eventually runs out, and nothing he has keeps him alive through a prolonged fight afterward.

Zac’s counter is percentage-based damage. Unstable Matter hits for a slice of maximum health as magic damage, and Malphite’s 28 magic resist is the flimsiest defence either champion carries, so stacking armour does little for him here. Ground Slam turns Malphite’s armour into magic damage and slows attack speed, a slow that barely matters for a champion whose output comes from spells rather than auto attacks. Health totals widen the gap: 685 and 2,538 for Zac against 665 and 2,433 for Malphite. Mobility settles the rest. Zac moves at 340 to Malphite’s 335, and Seismic Shard drains move speed for three seconds, so Elastic Slingshot, not walking, is how Zac closes the distance. Malphite’s difficulty rating of 2 against Zac’s 8 captures the other half: the matchup rewards precise Let’s Bounce! angles, and Unstoppable Force punishes a mistimed one right away.