Gravesvs Zac
Graves vs Zac is a decisive matchup in LoL patch 26.7. Zac wins with a 57.6% win rate (+15.3%) over Graves based on 59 games. Zac holds the advantage in both the early and late game. Below you'll find the best Graves build, runes, laning stats, and strategies for the Graves vs Zac matchup.
Graves Matchup Breakdown
Use the dropdown to select an opponent and see a detailed breakdown of how Graves performs against them. You'll get head-to-head win rates, laning stats, the best build and runes for the matchup, and early vs late game analysis — all based on real ranked data.
Zac(42.4%)Who Wins the Graves vs Zac Matchup?
Graves vs Zac Matchup Summary
The Graves vs Zac matchup is a decisive matchup in League of Legends ranked play. Based on 59 recent matches analyzed, Zac wins with a 57.6% win rate compared to Graves's 42.4%, giving Zac a 15.3 percentage point advantage. Zac dominates at every stage — from early laning through late game team fights. This consistent advantage makes it difficult for Graves players to find favorable windows, so team-dependent strategies and avoiding solo confrontations are essential. The most significant statistical gap is in sustain, where Zac leads by 2,321 HP/min — a difference that heavily influences the outcome of trades and skirmishes. Zac has a strong advantage in this matchup. Graves players should play defensively, prioritize safe farming under tower, and look for opportunities created by jungle pressure or Zac overextending. Avoid prolonged trades and wait for team fights where positioning and coordination matter more. Understanding these matchup dynamics is essential for champion select decisions and in-game strategy when facing this lane opponent.
Graves vs Zac Laning Phase Breakdown
Graves is favored during the laning phase against Zac, winning 3 out of 5 key stat categories. Graves holds advantages in farming, damage and gold income, making them the stronger laner in this matchup.
Best Graves Build Against Zac
Mercury's Treads is the optimal boots choice against Zac, providing the mobility and stats Graves needs most in this matchup. The top-performing core items for Graves against Zac are Hubris, The Collector and Immortal Shieldbow. This combination gives Graves an effective balance of damage, survivability, and utility for the matchup. This build performs exceptionally well, achieving a 66.7% win rate across 3 games — well above average and making it the top item path against Zac. Adjustments may be needed based on team compositions and game state, but this build provides the strongest foundation for the Graves vs Zac matchup.
Early Game vs Late Game
Graves37.5%Zac62.5%Graves48.1%Zac51.9%Zac dominates the early game (first 15 minutes) with a commanding 62.5% win rate — a 25.0 percentage point lead over Graves. This lopsided early game means Zac can dictate the pace of the lane from level 1, controlling trades, wave state, and river priority.
In the late game (25+ minutes), Zac takes over with a 51.9% win rate, leading Graves by 3.7 percentage points. Zac scales more effectively into team fights and objective contests.
Zac holds the advantage at every stage of the game, making this a consistently favorable matchup from lane through late game team fights. Graves players should look for outplays, team-dependent strategies, and picks rather than relying on scaling to win this matchup.
Best Graves Runes Against Zac
Domination
Precision
The Domination and Precision rune setup gives Graves the best tools to compete against Zac in this difficult matchup, compensating for the statistical disadvantages with optimal rune synergies.
Graves matchup data for League of Legends patch 26.7. The table below shows Graves's win rate, gold difference, and performance stats against every champion in the current meta. Click any champion name to see a detailed head-to-head breakdown including the best Graves build, runes, laning stats, and early vs late game analysis for that specific matchup.
Opponent | Win Rate | Matches | CS/min | DMG/min | Gold/game | Early WR | Late WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43.85% | 244 | 1.5 | 780 | 13,756 | 38.5% | 49.2% | |
| 46.28% | 242 | 1.6 | 853 | 14,498 | 49.5% | 44.0% | |
| 51.03% | 194 | 1.5 | 859 | 14,296 | 56.5% | 46.8% | |
| 52.08% | 192 | 1.6 | 834 | 14,483 | 52.4% | 51.9% | |
| 53.01% | 183 | 1.5 | 911 | 14,300 | 51.1% | 54.8% | |
| 46.82% | 173 | 1.7 | 941 | 15,102 | 39.4% | 52.0% | |
| 49.04% | 157 | 1.6 | 880 | 14,362 | 49.4% | 48.8% | |
| 39.17% | 120 | 1.4 | 801 | 13,197 | 30.8% | 49.1% | |
| 47.90% | 119 | 1.7 | 1,100 | 14,222 | 50.9% | 45.3% | |
| 46.96% | 115 | 1.5 | 826 | 14,464 | 46.0% | 47.7% | |
| 45.22% | 115 | 1.5 | 823 | 14,725 | 44.4% | 45.7% | |
| 51.82% | 110 | 1.6 | 847 | 14,305 | 52.1% | 51.6% | |
| 40.78% | 103 | 1.6 | 769 | 14,108 | 40.5% | 41.0% | |
| 56.12% | 98 | 1.8 | 862 | 14,578 | 48.9% | 62.3% | |
| 53.13% | 96 | 1.8 | 822 | 13,823 | 49.1% | 58.5% | |
| 44.21% | 95 | 1.4 | 769 | 13,542 | 46.3% | 42.6% | |
| 47.25% | 91 | 1.6 | 773 | 14,193 | 58.1% | 37.5% | |
| 44.44% | 90 | 1.5 | 794 | 13,399 | 40.7% | 51.6% | |
| 56.82% | 88 | 1.6 | 847 | 14,429 | 59.0% | 55.1% | |
| 55.81% | 86 | 1.5 | 911 | 14,288 | 51.2% | 60.0% | |
| 55.42% | 83 | 1.6 | 898 | 14,328 | 50.0% | 61.0% | |
| 59.04% | 83 | 1.7 | 875 | 14,963 | 60.0% | 58.3% | |
| 52.50% | 80 | 1.6 | 845 | 14,986 | 44.1% | 58.7% | |
| 53.25% | 77 | 1.6 | 847 | 15,234 | 52.0% | 53.9% | |
| 50.65% | 77 | 1.7 | 769 | 13,614 | 57.9% | 43.6% | |
| 41.33% | 75 | 1.7 | 781 | 13,793 | 39.4% | 42.9% | |
| 35.62% | 73 | 1.5 | 763 | 12,800 | 32.4% | 38.9% | |
| 45.07% | 71 | 1.6 | 804 | 13,591 | 45.5% | 44.7% | |
| 54.29% | 70 | 1.8 | 819 | 14,384 | 54.5% | 54.0% | |
| 64.71% | 68 | 1.8 | 893 | 15,409 | 55.6% | 70.7% | |
| 50.79% | 63 | 1.8 | 902 | 15,541 | 52.0% | 50.0% | |
| 41.94% | 62 | 1.6 | 800 | 14,250 | 40.7% | 42.9% | |
| 54.10% | 61 | 1.8 | 743 | 14,414 | 50.0% | 56.8% | |
| 30.00% | 60 | 1.6 | 828 | 14,137 | 16.7% | 38.9% | |
| 42.37% | 59 | 1.7 | 887 | 13,096 | 37.5% | 48.1% | |
| 51.72% | 58 | 1.8 | 941 | 14,294 | 57.1% | 46.7% | |
| 43.64% | 55 | 2.0 | 871 | 13,679 | 53.1% | 30.4% | |
| 38.89% | 54 | 1.5 | 785 | 13,415 | 33.3% | 42.4% | |
| 62.75% | 51 | 1.6 | 947 | 14,803 | 52.6% | 68.8% | |
| 47.92% | 48 | 1.4 | 755 | 13,124 | 50.0% | 45.0% | |
| 47.73% | 44 | 1.4 | 709 | 13,342 | 52.4% | 43.5% | |
| 51.22% | 41 | 1.6 | 857 | 13,846 | 35.3% | 62.5% | |
| 46.34% | 41 | 2.1 | 827 | 14,128 | 55.6% | 39.1% | |
| 55.00% | 40 | 1.7 | 865 | 14,295 | 45.5% | 66.7% | |
| 67.65% | 34 | 1.6 | 760 | 14,342 | 66.7% | 68.4% | |
| 41.18% | 34 | 1.5 | 941 | 14,927 | 45.0% | 35.7% | |
| 71.88% | 32 | 1.7 | 851 | 15,250 | 93.8% | 50.0% | |
| 28.13% | 32 | 1.4 | 937 | 14,079 | 21.4% | 33.3% | |
| 25.81% | 31 | 2.9 | 866 | 14,142 | 44.4% | 18.2% | |
| 61.29% | 31 | 2.5 | 800 | 14,008 | 64.3% | 58.8% | |
| 58.06% | 31 | 1.7 | 796 | 14,671 | 56.3% | 60.0% | |
| 56.67% | 30 | 1.5 | 825 | 14,559 | 45.5% | 63.2% | |
| 60.71% | 28 | 2.2 | 862 | 13,980 | 61.5% | 60.0% | |
| 46.43% | 28 | 2.0 | 790 | 13,326 | 31.3% | 66.7% | |
| 54.17% | 24 | 2.7 | 888 | 15,341 | 33.3% | 66.7% | |
| 50.00% | 20 | 1.7 | 696 | 12,623 | 46.1% | 57.1% | |
| 50.00% | 20 | 3.6 | 985 | 13,637 | 77.8% | 27.3% | |
| 68.42% | 19 | 2.2 | 920 | 13,859 | 75.0% | 63.6% | |
| 44.44% | 18 | 1.6 | 777 | 14,255 | 37.5% | 50.0% | |
| 44.44% | 18 | 2.3 | 956 | 14,759 | 83.3% | 25.0% | |
| 62.50% | 16 | 2.2 | 1,072 | 17,495 | 50.0% | 66.7% | |
| 26.67% | 15 | 1.4 | 715 | 12,912 | 22.2% | 33.3% | |
| 71.43% | 14 | 2.4 | 843 | 16,335 | 100.0% | 55.6% | |
| 53.85% | 13 | 2.0 | 730 | 14,407 | 66.7% | 42.9% | |
| 53.85% | 13 | 2.2 | 755 | 12,469 | 55.6% | 50.0% | |
| 75.00% | 12 | 2.2 | 1,009 | 16,438 | 60.0% | 85.7% | |
| 54.55% | 11 | 4.4 | 993 | 13,972 | 50.0% | 57.1% | |
| 70.00% | 10 | 2.0 | 694 | 14,030 | 100.0% | 50.0% | |
| 70.00% | 10 | 4.3 | 1,217 | 15,993 | 100.0% | 57.1% | |
| 40.00% | 10 | 1.5 | 902 | 14,363 | 50.0% | 33.3% | |
| 55.56% | 9 | 4.7 | 887 | 12,766 | 25.0% | 80.0% | |
| 66.67% | 9 | 2.0 | 1,047 | 15,679 | 50.0% | 71.4% | |
| 12.50% | 8 | 6.9 | 599 | 11,580 | 16.7% | 0.0% | |
| 37.50% | 8 | 2.2 | 637 | 12,335 | 40.0% | 33.3% | |
| 62.50% | 8 | 2.3 | 732 | 15,551 | 66.7% | 60.0% | |
| 50.00% | 6 | 4.7 | 765 | 15,251 | 0.0% | 75.0% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 7.0 | 1,262 | 14,234 | 33.3% | 33.3% | |
| 66.67% | 6 | 4.7 | 998 | 17,379 | 0.0% | 66.7% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 6.3 | 835 | 13,783 | 0.0% | 100.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 4.5 | 864 | 15,271 | 66.7% | 50.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 5.2 | 684 | 11,422 | 50.0% | 66.7% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 8.5 | 993 | 12,557 | 75.0% | 0.0% | |
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Graves vs Zac - Frequently Asked Questions
How does Graves do against Zac in League of Legends?
Zac wins the Graves vs Zac matchup with a 57.6% win rate compared to Graves's 42.4%, a 15.3 percentage point difference. This data is based on 59 recent ranked games in patch 26.7.
How does Graves do against Zac in the early game?
In the early game, Zac has the advantage against Graves with a 62.5% win rate versus 37.5%. Zac players should look to press their lane advantage through aggressive trades and wave control during the first 15 minutes.
How does Graves do against Zac in the late game?
In the late game, Zac takes over the Graves vs Zac matchup with a 51.9% win rate compared to 48.1%. Zac scales better into team fights and objective contests after 25 minutes.
Who wins the Graves vs Zac matchup?
Zac wins the matchup against Graves with a 57.6% win rate in League of Legends patch 26.7. The 15.3 percentage point advantage means Zac is significantly favored in this lane matchup based on 59 games analyzed.
What is the best Graves build against Zac?
The best Graves build against Zac includes Hubris, The Collector, Immortal Shieldbow with Mercury's Treads. This build achieves a 66.7% win rate in the matchup. Check the matchup breakdown above for the full item path and build order.
What are the best Graves runes against Zac?
The best Graves runes against Zac use the Domination primary tree with Precision secondary. This rune setup achieves a 50.0% win rate in the Graves vs Zac matchup. See the full rune breakdown in the matchup comparison above.
Does Graves counter Zac?
No, Graves struggles against Zac with only a 42.4% win rate. Zac has the advantage in this matchup. Graves players should focus on safe farming and avoiding extended trades to minimize Zac's lead.
How do I play Graves against Zac?
When playing Graves against Zac, play cautiously and avoid Zac's power spikes. Look for jungle assistance and team-dependent plays since Zac has the statistical advantage at most stages. Use the matchup-specific build and runes above to optimize your chances.