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.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Zoe against Aatrox matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Zoe normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Aatrox. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Aatrox, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Aatrox.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate compared to Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Aatrox.
Furthermore, Zoe has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox 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 teamfights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Aatrox.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Aatrox build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Aatrox than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 48.3% battling Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Aatrox 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 runes players chose for Zoe vs Aatrox counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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