Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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 feature several important Hwei versus Zyra matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra..
Hwei often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 42.4% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Hwei does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Zyraas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Hwei has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hwei is a trash counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Zyra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average picks up more CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Hwei versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei included at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs Zyra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average winrate of 42.4% when playing against Zyra with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zyra as Hwei, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Hwei vs Zyra fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Hwei are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.