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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Zoe vs. Fiddlesticks counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Fiddlesticks..
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Fiddlesticks. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually wins when playing against Fiddlesticks, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a good counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Zoe does have a higher win rate than Fiddlesticks, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Fiddlesticks.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Zoe is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Zoe is a decent counter to Fiddlesticks. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Fiddlesticks.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average gets much more CS compared to Fiddlesticks. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Fiddlesticks build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Fiddlesticks than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Fiddlesticks with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Fiddlesticks as Zoe, Zoe players should equip 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 we have analyed for Zoe vs Fiddlesticks fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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