Nami vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Nami
based on 4,831 Nami vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Zyra
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Nami versus Zyra matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Zyra
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Who is Better, Nami or Zyra?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Nami makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Nami does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nami into Zyra.
Moreover, Nami also has a lot 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nami is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nami in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami often accumulates less CS compared to Zyra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nami versus Zyra build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Zyra as Nami, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nami vs Zyra matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.5% win rate overall.
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