Zoe vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Zoe
based on 3,101 Zoe vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Zoe vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Zoe vs. Yasuo counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yasuo..
Zoe typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yasuo. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Zoe or Yasuo?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Yasuo, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a bad counter to Yasuo.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Zoe also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Yasuo.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zoe is a bad counter to Yasuo. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Yasuo.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically gets a similar amount of CS as Yasuo. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zoe versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Yasuo than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Yasuo 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Zoe vs Yasuo clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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