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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Zoe vs. Vladimir matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vladimir..
Zoe usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Vladimir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Vladimir, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Vladimir.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Vladimir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Vladimir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, 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 relative to Vladimir. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Vladimir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Vladimir than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Vladimir with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Vladimir as Zoe, Zoe players 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 combinations players chose for Zoe vs Vladimir face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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