Shyvana vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Shyvana
based on 2,327 Shyvana vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Zyra
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Shyvana vs. Zyra counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the two. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zyra..
Shyvana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Zyra
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shyvana into Zyra.
Furthermore, Shyvana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a trash counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Shyvana versus Zyra build include Nashor's Tooth, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Zyra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zyra as Shyvana, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Shyvana vs Zyra counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.2% winrate overall.
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