Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Kai'Sa vs. Zoe matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zoe..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zoe. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zoe, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter for Zoe.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Zoe, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Zoe.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Zoe matchups, Zoe is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Zoe. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Zoe.
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually gets a similar amount of CS as Zoe. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Zoe build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Zoe than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Zoe with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Zoe as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Kai'Sa vs Zoe counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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