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I'll Take Yasuo Over Zoe Any Day

Kivolan·3/4/2019, 3:08:33 AM·2 votes·1,687 views

Verbally hoping a certain Riot employee meets various grisly fates has become something of a common theme in my games against this piece of shit champion.

I can (mostly) deal with the Q. It's like a Nidalee spear, only way more flexible and way easier to land (because reasons).

My main problem is her E, which is quite possibly the most toxic CC ability in the game. Even if you do dodge it, you now have a giant AoE area you're zoned out of for several seconds. If she uses her R to practically guarantee a hit, she loses nothing thanks to the bonus true damage from it and the massive THREE AND A HALF SECONDS OF CC (1.4 second slow + 2.25 second sleep) that give her more than enough time to literally walk up to you from the other side of your screen to throw her Q.

Thankfully it's getting a cooldown nerf in this next patch, because currently at max rank with 40% CDR it has an effective downtime of something along the lines of 1.4 seconds, making it one of the most effective zoning tools in the game.

While I'm at it, I'd just like to say that essentially nullifying your summoner spells is some A+ design. It feels great for your flash to be rendered useless on an immobile champion since Zoe can just pick it up after you use it for even more damage + mobility. The RNG of sometimes dealing with multiple Smites / Ignites in lane feels great as well.

I don't often rant about champions, but this one just pisses me off every time I see it in a game.

2 Comments

Craft Zeppelin3/4/2019, 3:23:58 AM1 votes

You main cannon mages just like me. If you play Zoe a bit maybe you can learn what she is fully capable of doing. I just happened to main her for the past months to get some freshness into my game (I'm JUST getting good at her after a ton of games.) and I found out.

  1. Her dueling potential is really high. I just happened to see that I have 70% winrate in midlane 1v1 duels.
  2. Do NOT approach her when there is a potentiality of 2 W procs. That is her "win condition" and her "trade-off" of not having a ult.
  3. Cleanse, is a hard counter summoner spell. It gives her little benefit if she gets it, while you can use it in a reactional way. As velkoz, you can use cleanse, and just launch all your buttons in a straight line and nuke her because how her portal works. Thats how I win against Zoes. Maybe it would not work in your elo, but it is a suggestion.
  4. Its actually not the W or Q. Her E is literally 70% of her kit.
Yboat3/4/2019, 3:39:03 AM1 votes

Zoe is pretty easy to deal with. Yas, it takes hard cc. Zoe you can take cleanse and be just fine.