Kai'Sa vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Kai'Sa
based on 6,346 Kai'Sa vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Zyra
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some strategic Kai'Sa versus Zyra matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Zyra
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Zyra.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Zyra. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Zyra during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often racks up much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Zyra build consist of Terminus, Stormsurge, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 44.5% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kai'Sa vs Zyra clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.
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