Leona vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Leona
based on 1,655 Leona vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Zoe
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Leona versus Zoe counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zoe. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Zoe. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Zoe
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Who is Better, Leona or Zoe?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Zoe, with a 55.7% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Zoe.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate compared to Zoe, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Zoe.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Zoe matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Leona is a great counter for Zoe. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a lot less CS relative to Zoe. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Leona versus Zoe build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Zoe than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 55.7% when playing against Zoe with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Zoe as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Leona vs Zoe fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.7% winrate overall.
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