How to win the jungle race as Locke against Zac · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Locke's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Zac.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Locke Favoured | Q nail volleys clear camps at range while banking marks for the first scuttle fight. Zac can make it awkward — a fog-charged Elastic Slingshot knock-up opens a gank-grade engage onto you — but not before either of you has a second camp down. Trade, then walk away with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Locke Favoured | The blink-auto mark consume chunks hard, but spending E in a duel spends the escape too. The margin is thin: Elastic Slingshot is for ganks, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Ward the walls he charges from and step on his blobs to starve the sustain. |
| Level 3 Route | Locke Favoured | W's grey-health refund makes his short trades cheaper than they look — full clears cost him real HP. Blob sustain keeps their clear healthy, but champion trades are losers, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-3 river fight only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Locke Favoured — Take Duels | You hold the edge at 4-5, not a blowout. He charges Elastic Slingshot from fog through 4-5 and is more dangerous off your screen than on it, so meet them where the camps are, not where their laners are. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Even Ult Window | Level six changes both of you at once: the Purgatory totem turns any low-HP skirmish into a chain of executes and blink resets, while Let's Bounce! plus the fog Slingshot starts every objective fight with their team airborne. Ward his charge walls — a grounded Zac is just a sad puddle, and let the objective timer say when to commit. |
| First Item Spike | Lich Bane / Shadowflame Spike | Lich Bane turns every blink-consume into a Spellblade chunk and Shadowflame sharpens the low-HP crunch. This is your strongest duel window of the game — cash it on a pick, not a coin-flip. Zac's first item is a durability spike, so he does not start killing you — he starts surviving whatever you send. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Zac Outscales | Late game you are a cleanup engine, not a frontliner: enter second, blink the marked kill, and chain E resets. Every sealed soul permanently raises the totem floor — your scaling is the seal count. |
Start Red with a leash and Q the camp from max nail range — W’s grey-health refund keeps the clear honest, but full clears cost real HP, so path toward a healthy scuttle, not a fight. Zac clears steadily with blob sustain and Unstable Matter, and he never has to recall for health before six.
Ranked by the race windows in Locke's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Locke vs Zac report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Locke's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows — Locke holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Locke's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows, so Zac is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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