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.
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Zyra vs. Gragas matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Zyra makes a great counter for Gragas.
While Zyra does have a much higher winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Gragasas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Gragas 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Gragas. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Gragas.
To truly master Zyra in order to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra typically picks up less CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zyra versus Gragas build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Gragas than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 54.6% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Gragas as Zyra, Zyra players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Zyra vs Gragas clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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