Zoe vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Zoe
based on 1,126 Zoe vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Soraka Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Zoe vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Zoe against Soraka counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Soraka
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Who is Better, Zoe or Soraka?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a bad counter for Soraka.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Soraka.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Zoe vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter to Soraka. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Soraka.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Soraka Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often racks up much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zoe versus Soraka build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 48.6% battling Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Soraka as Zoe, you 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 that we analyzed for Zoe vs Soraka LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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