Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Mordekaiser against Zyra counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Mordekaiser often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually fairs equally well when playing against Zyra, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Mordekaiser makes an ok counter for Zyra.
While Mordekaiser does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Mordekaiser also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Mordekaiser into Zyra.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser has some amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Mordekaiser is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Mordekaiser against Zyra.
If you would like to truly master Mordekaiser 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser most often accumulates more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Zyra build include Force of Nature, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Zyra than with most other typical builds. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Zyra as Mordekaiser, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Mordekaiser vs Zyra LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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