Brand vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Brand
based on 2,997 Brand vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Zoe
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Zoe
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Brand vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic Brand vs. Zoe matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zoe. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Zoe
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Who is Better, Brand or Zoe?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Zoe, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter to Zoe.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Zoe, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Zoe.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zoe. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Zoe matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Brand is an above average counter for Zoe. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically racks up less CS compared to Zoe. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Brand versus Zoe build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Zoe than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Zoe with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zoe as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Brand vs Zoe counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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