Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
The stats shown on this page feature several important Ahri vs. Zoe counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zoe. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually wins when facing off against Zoe, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a good counter for Zoe.
While Ahri does have a higher win rate compared to Zoe, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Zoe.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Zoe matchups, Ahri is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter for Zoe. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Zoe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Zoe 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up a similar amount of CS as Zoe. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Zoe build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Zoe than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Zoe with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Zoe as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Ahri vs Zoe counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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