Graves vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Graves
based on 6,716 Graves vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Zyra
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Graves in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Graves against Zyra counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Graves typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Zyra
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Who is Better, Graves or Zyra?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Graves usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Graves does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Graves into Zyra.
Furthermore, Graves has almost no amount 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Graves is a trash counter to Zyra. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Graves versus Zyra build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Maw of Malmortius. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Zyra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zyra as Graves, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Graves vs Zyra LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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