Alistar vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Alistar
based on 2,334 Alistar vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Zyra Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Alistar Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Zyra as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Zyra
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Zyra
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.
Alistar vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Alistar against Zyra matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra..
Alistar normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Zyra
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Alistar or Zyra?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Alistar is a trash counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Zyra.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
Additional Information for Alistar Players
How We Calculated Our Alistar vs Zyra Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average picks up less CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Alistar versus Zyra build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Zyra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 47.0% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Zyra as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Alistar vs Zyra battles, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Alistar are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.