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.
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
The stats provided here underscore some important Zyra versus Lux counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lux’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Zyra normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lux. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Lux, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a good counter for Lux.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Lux, when facing one another, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Luxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Lux 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 team members during team fights.
Zyra is a good counter for Lux. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Lux.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often racks up less CS relative to Lux. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zyra versus Lux build consist of Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Zyra included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Lux than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Lux with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Lux as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Zombie Ward runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Zyra vs Lux counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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