Zoe vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Zoe
based on 704 Zoe vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Zoe vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Zoe against Gangplank matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Zoe often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Gangplank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Gangplank
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Gangplank?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Gangplank, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter to Gangplank.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate compared to Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Gangplank.
Furthermore, Zoe also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Gangplank matchups, Gangplank 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 trash counter for Gangplank. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Gangplank.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to counter Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zoe versus Gangplank build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 46.4% battling Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Gangplank as Zoe, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zoe vs Gangplank battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
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