Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
The stats provided here show several critical Poppy versus Zoe matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Poppy often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zoe. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Poppy usually loses when playing against Zoe, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Poppy makes a poor counter to Zoe.
While Poppy does have a lower winrate compared to Zoe, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Poppy into Zoe.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Zoe matchups, Zoe is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Poppy is a somewhat poor counter to Zoe. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Zoe.
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy usually gets less CS compared to Zoe. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Poppy versus Zoe build include Jak'Sho, The Protean, Sunfire Aegis, and Dead Man's Plate. When Poppy bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Zoe than with most other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Zoe with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Zoe as Poppy, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Poppy vs Zoe fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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