Zoe vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Zoe
based on 413 Zoe vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Kalista Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Runes
Guide to Countering Kalista as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Zoe vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some important Zoe versus Kalista matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Zoe often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Kalista
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Who is Better, Zoe or Kalista?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually fairs equally well when playing against Kalista, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Kalista.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. 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 Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zoe versus Kalista build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Kalista than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 49.4% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Kalista 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 players picked for Zoe vs Kalista counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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