Ziggs vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Ziggs
based on 2,488 Ziggs vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Zyra
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Advice to Win Against Zyra
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.
Ziggs vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Ziggs versus Zyra counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zyra..
Ziggs usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Zyra
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Zyra.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs 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 team members during teamfights.
Ziggs is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ziggs in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically accumulates more CS relative to Zyra. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ziggs versus Zyra build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Zyra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 46.5% battling Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zyra as Ziggs, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Ziggs vs Zyra fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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