Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 shown here emphasize some critical Renekton versus Zyra matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Renekton normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Renekton usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 44.5% win rate. As a result, Renekton makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Renekton does have a much lower winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Renekton also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Renekton into Zyra.
Moreover, Renekton has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Renekton 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Renekton is a bad counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Zyra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renekton 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton usually racks up much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Renekton versus Zyra build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Zyra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Renekton had an average winrate of 44.5% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Zyra as Renekton, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Renekton vs Zyra clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
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