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.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Zoe vs. Hecarim counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Hecarim..
Zoe often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Hecarim. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Hecarim, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Hecarim.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate compared to Hecarim, when facing one another, Zoe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Hecarim.
Moreover, Zoe has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zoe is a garbage counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Hecarim.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Hecarim 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically racks up much more CS relative to Hecarim. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zoe versus Hecarim build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Hecarim than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Hecarim with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Hecarim 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Zoe vs Hecarim matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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