Zoe vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Zoe
based on 812 Zoe vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Azir Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Azir as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Azir
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.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Zoe vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Zoe versus Azir matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Azir..
Zoe usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Azir
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Azir, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Azir.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zoe is a terribly counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn 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 closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Azir. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zoe versus Azir build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Azir than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Azir as Zoe, Zoe players should take 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 runes we have analyed for Zoe vs Azir clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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