Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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 provided here show some important Ryze versus Zyra matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Ryze usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 44.9% win rate. As a result, Ryze makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Ryze does have a much lower win rate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Ryze also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ryze into Zyraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ryze is a bad counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze on average gets much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ryze versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Zyra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 44.9% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Zyra as Ryze, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Ryze vs Zyra battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Ryze are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.