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.
Pop Blossom's warning visuals are invisible if Neeko is disguised.
Standing behind minions against Neeko is very dangerous as Tangle-Barbs become stronger.
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Zoe versus Neeko counter stats that can help you understand the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Neeko’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Neeko..
Zoe normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Neeko. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Neeko, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a poor counter to Neeko.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate compared to Neeko, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Neeko.
Furthermore, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Neeko. 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 in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Neeko matchups, Neeko is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Neeko. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Neeko.
If you would like to truly master Zoe to counter Neeko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Neeko. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Neeko build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Neeko than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Neeko with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Neeko 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 runes players used for Zoe vs Neeko face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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