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 shown on this page show some strategic Volibear versus Zyra matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zyra..
Volibear usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Volibear does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Volibear also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Volibear into Zyra.
Furthermore, Volibear also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Volibear is a bad counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Zyra.
If you would like to truly master Volibear to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear on average racks up more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Volibear versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Zyra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 45.6% when countering Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Zyra as Volibear, Volibear players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Volibear vs Zyra counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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