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 clarify several important Qiyana versus Zoe counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zoe..
Qiyana usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zoe. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Qiyana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zoe, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes an ok counter to Zoe.
While Qiyana does have a lower winrate than Zoe, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Qiyana into Zoeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Qiyana 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a somewhat poor counter for Zoe. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Qiyana against Zoe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana 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 above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Zoe. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Qiyana versus Zoe build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Qiyana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Zoe than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Zoe with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Zoe as Qiyana, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Qiyana vs Zoe battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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