Zoe vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Zoe
based on 2,041 Zoe vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Varus Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Varus as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Zoe vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Zoe versus Varus counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Varus..
Zoe normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Varus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Varus
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Who is Better, Zoe or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Varus, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a bad counter for Varus.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Varus, when facing one another, Zoe also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Varus.
Furthermore, Zoe has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Varus.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Varus Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Varus 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 presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average gets a similar amount of CS as Varus. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Varus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Varus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Varus as Zoe, Zoe players 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 Varus clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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