Zoe vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Zoe
based on 675 Zoe vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Viktor Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Viktor as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Zoe vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Zoe in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Zoe vs. Viktor counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Zoe usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Viktor. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Viktor
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Viktor?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Viktor, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes an ok counter for Viktor.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Viktor, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Viktor.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Viktor. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Viktor.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Viktor Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Viktor during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Viktor. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zoe versus Viktor build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Viktor than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Viktor with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Viktor as Zoe, Zoe players should equip 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 builds we have analyed for Zoe vs Viktor LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Viktor as Zoe are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.