Zoe vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Zoe
based on 1,655 Zoe vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Leona Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Zoe vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Zoe against Leona matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zoe often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Leona
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Who is Better, Zoe or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 44.3% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Leona.
Furthermore, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zoe is a terribly counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Leona.
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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 Leona during both the laning 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 stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often picks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zoe versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Leona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when countering Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Leona 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 builds players chose for Zoe vs Leona counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
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