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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Zyra vs. LeBlanc counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than LeBlanc. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than LeBlanc. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 57.0% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a fantastic counter for LeBlanc.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate than LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into LeBlancas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs LeBlanc matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for LeBlanc. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against LeBlanc.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average gets less CS compared to LeBlanc. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zyra versus LeBlanc build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing LeBlanc than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 57.0% when countering LeBlanc with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing LeBlanc as Zyra, you should take 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 combinations players chose for Zyra vs LeBlanc clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Zyra are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.