How to win the jungle race as Master Yi against Zac · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Master Yi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Zac.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Master Yi Favoured | Alpha Strike speeds your clear, but raw duels are losers — farm, don't 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 | Master Yi Favoured | Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel; keep choosing camps over combat. 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 | Master Yi Favoured | Meditate buys time but wins nothing — your game starts at level six, not three. 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 | Master Yi 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 | Highlander Favoured | Highlander's slow immunity plus Alpha resets snowball any post-6 cleanup. Zac's six is not empty — the fog Slingshot into Let's Bounce! keeps your whole side airborne. Take the duel from even health rather than from behind, and ward his charge walls — a grounded Zac is just a sad puddle. |
| First Item Spike | Kraken Slayer Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive physical damage, attack speed, and on-hit multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or isolated targets. Zac's first item is a durability spike, so he does not start killing you — he starts surviving whatever you send. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Master Yi Favoured — Wins Late | From two items you out-scale Zac. He is a fog engage with two health bars, so the first kill is only temporary, but none of that beats your full build in a straight fight. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health sustain and red buff true damage. 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 Master Yi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Master Yi 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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Master Yi's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows — Master Yi holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Master Yi's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows, so Zac is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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