Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Ahri against Zyra counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra..
Ahri typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Ahri does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ahri into Zyra.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ahri is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up more CS compared to Zyra. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ahri versus Zyra build include Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Zyra than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 45.8% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Zyra as Ahri, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ahri vs Zyra counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.8% winrate overall.
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