You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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 shown on this page underscore some significant Aurelion Sol versus Zyra matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually fairs equally well when taking on Zyra, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Aurelion Sol makes an ok counter for Zyra.
While Aurelion Sol does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Aurelion Sol also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Aurelion Sol into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aurelion Sol has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Aurelion Sol is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aurelion Sol against Zyra.
If you would like to truly master Aurelion Sol to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol typically accumulates much more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Aurelion Sol versus Zyra build consist of Banshee's Veil, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Zyra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Zyra as Aurelion Sol, Aurelion Sol players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Aurelion Sol vs Zyra clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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