I'm not a zoe hater.... but.
I wonder if riot wouldn't be against changing her q around a bit. shifting some of the damage from base damage into ap ratios. I'm not complaining, the good base damage (almost 700 though yeesh) and cc on her e allow her to play support quite nicely. but she's able to do quite a lot of damage while behind, and I think changing it around so she needs to get damage to do a lot of damage would be fair and feel better not getting one shot as a 12/2/9 fed carry against a 1/8/0 zoe with 60 ap.
or hell, a fed tank. she doesn't care, she can chunk them with true damage too.