Zoe vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Zoe
based on 917 Zoe vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Illaoi Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Illaoi as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Zoe vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Zoe against Illaoi counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Illaoi
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Illaoi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Illaoi, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Illaoi.
Moreover, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a trash counter to Illaoi. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Illaoi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Illaoi Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Illaoi during both the early game 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Illaoi. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Illaoi build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Illaoi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Illaoi 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zoe vs Illaoi counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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