Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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 stats shown here emphasize several strategic Corki against Zyra matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Corki’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Corki may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Corki often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Corki usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Corki makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Corki does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Corki also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Corki into Zyra.
Furthermore, Corki also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Corki vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Corki is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Corki against Zyra.
To truly master Corki to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Corki typically racks up much more CS compared to Zyra. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Corki versus Zyra build include Muramana, Malignance, and Spear of Shojin. When Corki used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Zyra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Corki boasted an average win rate of 46.0% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Corki, Corki players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Corki vs Zyra counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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