Zyra vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Zyra
based on 9,424 Zyra vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Akali Counter Build
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Core Zyra Items
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Guide to Countering Akali as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Akali
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Zyra vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Zyra in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Zyra versus Akali matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Akali
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Who is Better, Zyra or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when taking on Akali, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter for Akali.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Akalias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Akali matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zyra is a great counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra typically picks up less CS compared to Akali. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zyra versus Akali build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Zyra included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Akali than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 53.6% battling Akali with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Akali as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zyra vs Akali LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.6% win rate overall.
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