Naafiri vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Naafiri
based on 2,131 Naafiri vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Zyra
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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.
Naafiri vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Naafiri vs. Zyra counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a much larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they receives more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Naafiri and Zyra
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Naafiri into Zyra.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Naafiri is a garbage counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Naafiri in order to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually picks up more CS compared to Zyra. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Zyra build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Zyra than with most other common builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 47.7% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Zyra as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Zyra battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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