How to win lane as Lillia against Zac · 51.2% win rate (125 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Burn-tank paradise — Dream Dust eats %HP and he has no way to stop the jog.
Track: Zac's E — Elastic Slingshot (21–9s cooldown). Long-range engage — interrupt the charge or punish the cooldown.
Read from Lillia's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Zac.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither of us owns level 1 — I have only Blooming Blows and no kite chain, so I farm Q from range and stay out of his E sling range while he picks blobs. |
| Level 2 | Lillia | My second Q sweetspot starts the move-speed snowball and the Dream Dust DoT, so a slow Zac can't walk at me without feeding the burn. |
| Level 3 | Lillia | With my E Swirlseed slow plus stacked Q speed I kite his sling entirely and chip him every time he steps up for a blob. |
| Levels 4-5 | Lillia | Full-rank Blooming Blows and compounding Dream Dust let me grind a blob-less Zac off the wave — his only catch tool is an E sling I out-space. |
| Level 6 | Lillia | Lilting Lullaby sleeps a Zac already burning from my passive, denying his blob sustain or setting up a gank he can't sling out of. |
| First item | Lillia | Liandry's/Riftmaker turns my W slam and burn into percent-HP damage that out-paces his passive blob healing on his tank HP. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Even late — my percent-HP burn still hurts him in lane, but his 2+ item AoE engage finally matters in fights, so I convert the lead before then. |
Level 1 is a wash — I only have Blooming Blows and no kite chain, so I just farm Q from range and refuse to walk into his E sling range while he can pick blobs back up. The real danger here is levels 2-3: a Zac sitting in brush or fog can sling onto me and chain his Q knockup, and a single landed CC pins my squishy body long enough for his combo, so I never facecheck and never hug the wave where he can fog-sling me. Once I have my E Swirlseed slow plus a second Q point, I start the Dream Dust burn and the move-speed stacks, and from there he can't walk at me without feeding the DoT.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Lillia's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Lillia 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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Lillia, slightly — a 51.2% win rate edge over 125 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Lillia has a small statistical edge (51.2% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Lillia has a slight edge (51.2% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Lillia takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Sorcery secondary (Transcendence and Celerity) vs Zac.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Liandry's Torment first, then Riftmaker / Rylai's Crystal Scepter, with Mercury's Treads / Swifties.
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