How to win lane as Karma against Zac · 52.17% win rate over 23 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | RQ Soulflare's delayed zone from level 1 is poke almost no tank can answer, and his short-range Stretching Strike can't punish you at that distance. |
| Level 2 | Karma | Layering Inner Flame onto your Gathering Fire Mantra refunds taxes him faster than Cell Division can pick the healing back up this early. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Your 4-5 power overlaps his — the RQ chunk is biggest here but his blob sustain refills most of it, so it nets even. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Same trade pattern: you poke, he soaks and heals off passive blobs, and neither side can force a clean kill yet. |
| Level 6 | Zac | At 6 his Let's Bounce and Elastic Slingshot close the range gap and flip ganks, while your front-loaded kit gets no new spike to answer the engage. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your first AP/haste item sharpens RQ, but his HP item plus blob sustain keep pace and hold the lane dead level. |
| Two+ items | Zac | You have no late scaling and he is an engage tank — his out-of-fog Slingshot or Let's Bounce onto your backline outweighs your utility if you fall behind in roams. |
Zac is an off-meta engage tank — when you land Inner Flame and RQ Soulflare to shove him off the wave, his Cell Division passive drops green blobs he just walks over to eat the chip back, so your poke chunks but does not stick like it does into a dry juggernaut. Still open Levels 1-2 hard: Mantra is up from level 1, RQ on cooldown is real pressure, and your range out-spaces his short Stretching Strike. Bait nothing yet — farm at range, keep mana, and never let his blobs heal a full bar back between your casts.
The full Karma vs Zac report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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