Zyra vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Zyra
based on 10,789 Zyra vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Zyra vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Zyra against Jax matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jax. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Jax. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Jax
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Who is Better, Zyra or Jax?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Jax, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a good counter for Jax.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Jax, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Jaxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Jax matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Zyra is a decent counter to Jax. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zyra in order to counter Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates less CS compared to Jax. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zyra versus Jax build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Jax than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Jax with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Jax as Zyra, Zyra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zyra vs Jax LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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