Illaoi vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Illaoi
based on 917 Illaoi vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Zoe Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Illaoi Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Zoe as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Zoe
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Zoe
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Illaoi vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Illaoi versus Zoe matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zoe..
Illaoi often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zoe. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Zoe
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Illaoi or Zoe?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Zoe, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a great counter to Zoe.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Zoe, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Zoe.
Additionally, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Zoe matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a great counter for Zoe. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Zoe.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Zoe Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi to counter Zoe 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 shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zoe. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Illaoi versus Zoe build consist of Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Zoe than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 53.2% battling Zoe with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Zoe as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Illaoi vs Zoe matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.2% win rate overall.
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