Nilah vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Nilah
based on 2,370 Nilah vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Nilah in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Nilah against Zyra counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nilah typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. On average, they takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Zyra
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Who is Better, Nilah or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Zyra, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a good counter for Zyra.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Zyraas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Zyra matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nilah is a decent counter for Zyra. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often accumulates much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nilah versus Zyra build include Bloodthirster, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs. Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Zyra with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Zyra as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Nilah vs Zyra fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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