Kayn vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Kayn
based on 7,577 Kayn vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Zyra
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Kayn in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Kayn against Zyra counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayn often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayn and Zyra
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Who is Better, Kayn or Zyra?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayn usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayn makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Kayn does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Kayn also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kayn into Zyraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayn has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayn vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kayn is a terribly counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayn against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayn to counter Zyra during both the early game 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 stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kayn versus Zyra build include Guardian Angel, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Zyra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing against Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Zyra as Kayn, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kayn vs Zyra counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Kayn are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.