Zoe vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Zoe
based on 770 Zoe vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Alistar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Alistar as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Alistar
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Zoe vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here feature some influential Zoe vs. Alistar matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between this pair of champs. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Alistar
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a bad counter to Alistar.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Alistar.
Furthermore, Zoe also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
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How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Alistar Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Alistar 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 stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically gets much more CS compared to Alistar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zoe versus Alistar build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Alistar as Zoe, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zoe vs Alistar counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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