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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some significant Zoe against Lissandra counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Zoe normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Zoe also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra 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 late stage team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter for Lissandra. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Lissandra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 45.0% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Lissandra 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 runes we have analyed for Zoe vs Lissandra clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Zoe are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.