Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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 on this page highlight some important Rumble vs. Zyra matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Rumble’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rumble may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rumble typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zyra. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rumble usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Rumble makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Rumble does have a much lower winrate compared to Zyra, when they face off with one another, Rumble also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rumble into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rumble has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rumble vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rumble is a terribly counter for Zyra. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rumble against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rumble often picks up more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Rumble versus Zyra build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Rumble included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Zyra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Zyra as Rumble, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Rumble vs Zyra fights, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Rumble are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.