Kassadin vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Kassadin
based on 671 Kassadin vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Zoe Counter Build
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Core Kassadin Items
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Zoe
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Win Against Zoe
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.
Kassadin vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Kassadin vs. Zoe counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zoe..
Kassadin usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zoe. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Zoe
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Zoe?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when playing against Zoe, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes a great counter for Zoe.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate compared to Zoe, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kassadin into Zoeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin has some 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Zoe matchups, Kassadin 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.
Kassadin is a great counter for Zoe. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kassadin in order to counter Zoe during both the laning 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 stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Zoe. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kassadin versus Zoe build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Zoe than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 53.9% when playing against Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zoe as Kassadin, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kassadin vs Zoe counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
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