Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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 shown on this page underscore several valuable Lee Sin against Zoe counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Lee Sin typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zoe. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when trying to fight Zoe, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter to Zoe.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate compared to Zoe, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lee Sin into Zoe.
Furthermore, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Zoe matchups, Zoe 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 teamfights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter for Zoe. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Zoe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often picks up a lot less CS as Zoe. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Zoe build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Zoe than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Zoe with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zoe as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Lee Sin vs Zoe LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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