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 stat comparisons shown here clarify some significant Rell against Zyra matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zyra..
Rell normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Rell makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Rell does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Rell into Zyra.
Moreover, Rell has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rell is a garbage counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Zyra.
To truly master Rell in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell most often racks up less CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't get 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Rell versus Zyra build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Zyra as Rell, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rell vs Zyra clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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