Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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 underscore several valuable Twitch against Zyra matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Twitch often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Twitch makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Twitch does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when they face off with one another, Twitch also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Twitch into Zyra.
Additionally, Twitch also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Twitch is a somewhat poor counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Twitch against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Twitch in order 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch typically racks up more CS relative to Zyra. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Twitch versus Zyra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Nashor's Tooth. When Twitch used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Twitch had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Zyra as Twitch, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Twitch vs Zyra clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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