Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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 emphasize some valuable Naafiri vs. Zoe counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Zoe..
Naafiri often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives more damage than Zoe. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when trying to fight Zoe, with a 55.4% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a fantastic counter for Zoe.
While Naafiri does have a much higher win rate than Zoe, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Zoe.
Moreover, Naafiri 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Zoe matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a great counter to Zoe. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Zoe.
To truly master Naafiri 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri often racks up a similar amount of CS as Zoe. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Zoe build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better against Zoe than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 55.4% when playing against Zoe with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Zoe as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Naafiri vs Zoe fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.4% winrate overall.
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