Zoe vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Zoe
based on 2,997 Zoe vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Zoe vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Zoe versus Brand counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Brand
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Who is Better, Zoe or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Brand.
Furthermore, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a terribly counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Brand.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Brand Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically accumulates more CS compared to Brand. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zoe versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Brand than with many other common builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 47.3% battling Brand with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Brand as Zoe, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zoe vs Brand LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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