Zyra vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Zyra
based on 5,742 Zyra vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Zyra Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Zyra vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Zyra in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Zyra vs. Leona matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between these two champs. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Leona..
Zyra typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Leona
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Who is Better, Zyra or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually fairs equally well when taking on Leona, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Zyra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zyra into Leonaas her relative depth means 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 Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Leona matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zyra is a decent counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often accumulates more CS as Leona. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zyra versus Leona build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Zyra combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Leona as Zyra, you 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 rune sets players used for Zyra vs Leona fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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