Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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 feature several influential Nasus against Zoe matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zoe. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Zoe, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a great counter for Zoe.
While Nasus does have a much higher winrate than Zoe, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Nasus into Zoe.
Additionally, Nasus has almost no 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Zoe matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nasus is a great counter to Zoe. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Zoe.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Zoe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zoe. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nasus versus Zoe build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Zoe than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 54.2% battling Zoe with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Zoe as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nasus vs Zoe counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.2% winrate overall.
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