Zoe vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Zoe
based on 1,703 Zoe vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Darius Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Darius as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Zoe vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Zoe against Darius matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Darius..
Zoe normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Darius. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Darius
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Who is Better, Zoe or Darius?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually fairs equally well when facing off against Darius, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Zoe does have a higher win rate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Darius.
Additionally, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a decent counter for Darius. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale 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 do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zoe versus Darius build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Zoe bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Darius than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Darius as Zoe, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zoe vs Darius face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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