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 shown here clarify several strategic Yone vs. Zyra matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Yone often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yone usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Yone does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yone into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yone is a trash counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yone to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone usually racks up much more CS compared to Zyra. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Yone versus Zyra build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Zyra than with most other typical builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Zyra as Yone, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Yone vs Zyra matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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