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.
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Zyra against Draven matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Draven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Draven. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Draven, with a 54.1% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter to Draven.
While Zyra does have a much higher winrate compared to Draven, when facing one another, Zyra also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Dravenas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Draven matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Draven. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Draven.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Draven. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Zyra versus Draven build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Zyra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Draven than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Draven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Draven as Zyra, Zyra players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Zyra vs Draven battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Draven as Zyra are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.