Kalista vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Kalista
based on 1,272 Kalista vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Zyra
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Kalista vs. Zyra matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kalista often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Zyra
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Who is Better, Kalista or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 40.6% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Kalista does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kalista into Zyraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kalista is a bad counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kalista to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically accumulates much more CS compared to Zyra. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kalista versus Zyra build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 40.6% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zyra as Kalista, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Kalista vs Zyra counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 40.6% winrate overall.
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