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 on this page clarify several strategic Zeri against Zyra matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zeri usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 44.9% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Zeri does have a much lower winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Zeri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zeri into Zyra.
Furthermore, Zeri has some amount of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zeri 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.
Zeri is a garbage counter to Zyra. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Zyra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zeri to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri typically gets much more CS compared to Zyra. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zeri versus Zyra build include Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better vs Zyra than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zeri boasted an average win rate of 44.9% when countering Zyra with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Zyra as Zeri, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zeri vs Zyra LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.9% winrate overall.
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