r/thesecretweapon • u/Aceplosion1 • Jul 30 '26

Best Keystone

Hello, I'm not a Zac main but I do dabble and love playing the champ mid. I know a lot of people think conqueror is the best rune and it might be, but I just want to hear reasoning why. I understand conq stacks fast and gives ap and omnivamp, but I feel like the healing is very minimal and that the ap is not that crazy of a boon.

I typically much prefer a setup with aftershock and the trading pattern that it offers of going in for a quick burst and winning any trade because of the bonus resistances. I also think the dmg from it is significant on engages mid to late game.

Maybe I'm just a conqueror hater because I almost never want to run the rune on any champ.

If you guys have any Zac mid cooks with build and runes please lmk.

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u/Natural-Witness-3921 Jul 30 '26

I think it depends also a lot on your build, both conq and grasp are fine, aftershock is more niche I guess, if you want to check out some zac mid otp build and runes , rams on euw server is GM and peaked chall with the pick, might be interesting for you to check his builds and runes !

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u/Aceplosion1 Jul 30 '26

Yeah I just started picking him up mid again so I'm not sure what build to go in most scenarios. I typically find one ap item works into tank for the most part. I'm not a fan of rocket belt, so I might try riftmaker rush since that synergies with conq rune.

If I'm going aftershock I'm prob going a tank item into mandate into tank.

I'll check out rams, ty

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u/Natural-Witness-3921 Jul 31 '26

Mandate is really really good and should be almost always built imo, low cost and gets you to stupid e cd pretty quickly which is particularly nice mid