K'Sante vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as K'Sante
based on 2,331 K'Sante vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Zyra
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable K'Sante versus Zyra counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Zyra..
K'Sante often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Zyra
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Zyraas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante 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 team members during team fights.
K'Sante is a terribly counter for Zyra. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often accumulates much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your K'Sante versus Zyra build consist of Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.0% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Zyra as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for K'Sante vs Zyra fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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