Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Zoe versus Ahri counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Zoe normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Ahri, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter for Ahri.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Ahri, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Ahri.
Furthermore, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter to Ahri. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically gets a similar amount of CS as Ahri. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zoe versus Ahri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Ahri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Ahri with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Ahri as Zoe, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Zoe vs Ahri matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ahri as Zoe are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.