How to win the jungle race as Zac against Lillia · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Zac's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Lillia.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Lillia | Perma-kiting with passive move speed and the true-damage Q edge means melee never touch her — Zac has no answer to that at level 1. The Blooming Blows true-damage edge clears fast on their half of the map too, so skip the level-1 crossing and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Lillia | Watch Out! Eep! center-hits plus passive speed kite melee kits apart, and Zac has no clean answer to it on the second camp — perma-kiting with passive move speed and the true-damage Q edge means melee never touch her. Commit only with hard CC or a gap-closer in hand — a raw chase is a lost race, and give up the second buff rather than the kill. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Lillia | The window at the opening scuttle belongs to Lillia: dream-dust uptime plus W nukes out-pace anything without a dash. Your own line is real — stay a gank threat, not a duelist; your E from fog wins lanes, not buff pits — but it arrives second here. Commit only with hard CC or a gap-closer in hand — a raw chase is a lost race, then give up the level-3 river fight. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Lillia — Path Opposite | Levels 4-5 still belong to Lillia in a straight fight — farm the opposite side, answer their ganks cross-map, and wait for your spike. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Lillia's R | Lilting Lullaby sleeps the whole skirmish, which is the whole problem: a multi-target Lullaby sleep hands her side a free opening volley. Spread out and break the sleep with planned burst, not panic autos, and spend Let's Bounce! to equalize rather than to open. |
| First Item Spike | Tank Item Spike | Your first tank item plus level advantage makes you functionally unkillable to Lillia's early-game damage. Camp clears stabilize and your blob health stays topped, letting you play engage-bot for whichever lane is winning. Force fights at Dragon where your E from the river wall arrives unannounced. Lillia's first item is when the passing damage becomes real — she stops chipping and starts out-pacing health bars. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Respect Lillia Late — End Early | Lillia out-stats you from two items on — stop taking straight 1v1s, close through objectives and picks, and keep the game on a clock. |
Start the buff opposite your intended gank side and clear toward your E power farm — collect every bloblet or your sustain math collapses. Track Lillia's start through lane leashes so your slow first clear never crosses their path. Lillia clears fast and safely, kiting camps with Blooming Blows, and takes very little damage getting to three.
Ranked by the race windows in Zac's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Zac vs Lillia 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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Lillia pressures 6 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Lillia pressures 6 of the 7 windows, so Zac is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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