Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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 here show several influential Azir against Zoe counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zoe..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zoe. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Zoe, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a great counter to Zoe.
While Azir does have a much higher win rate compared to Zoe, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Zoeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Zoe matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is a great counter for Zoe. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Azir against Zoe.
To truly master Azir in order to counter Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Zoe. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Zoe build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Zoe than with most other common builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Zoe with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Zoe as Azir, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Azir vs Zoe counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zoe as Azir are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.