Zyra vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Zyra
based on 2,561 Zyra vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Annie
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 Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Zyra vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Zyra in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Zyra against Annie matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Annie..
Zyra often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Annie. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Annie
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Who is Better, Zyra or Annie?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Annie, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a good counter to Annie.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Annieas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Annie matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a good counter to Annie. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates less CS as Annie. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 a lot of 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 prioritize in your Zyra versus Annie build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Annie with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Annie as Zyra, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Zyra vs Annie clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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