Zoe vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Zoe
based on 1,423 Zoe vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Nasus Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Nasus
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 Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Zoe vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Zoe versus Nasus counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Nasus
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Who is Better, Zoe or Nasus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Nasus, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate compared to Nasus, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Nasus.
Additionally, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a terribly counter to Nasus. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Nasus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
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How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Nasus Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe to counter Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn 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 often racks up a similar amount of CS as Nasus. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zoe versus Nasus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Nasus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 45.8% when countering Nasus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nasus as Zoe, you should equip 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 players used for Zoe vs Nasus counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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