Illaoi vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Illaoi
based on 2,832 Illaoi vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Zyra Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Zyra
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Illaoi vs. Zyra matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Illaoi usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Zyra
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 43.9% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Illaoi does have a much lower winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Illaoi into Zyra.
Furthermore, Illaoi also 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a trash counter for Zyra. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up much more CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Zyra build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 43.9% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Zyra as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Illaoi vs Zyra face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Illaoi are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.