Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 provided here highlight several important Trundle against Zyra matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra..
Trundle typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Trundle usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zyra, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes an ok counter for Zyra.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Trundle also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Trundle into Zyra.
Moreover, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Zyra matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Trundle is a decent counter for Zyra. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Zyra.
If you would like to truly master Trundle to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often picks up more CS compared to Zyra. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Trundle versus Zyra build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Trundle incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Trundle had an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Trundle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Trundle vs Zyra LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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