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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Zyra against Master Yi counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Master Yi, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Zyra makes a good counter for Master Yi.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Master Yias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Master Yi matchups, Zyra is the better champ 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 Master Yi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Master Yi.
To truly master Zyra to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Master Yi build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 51.6% battling Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Master Yi as Zyra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Zyra vs Master Yi battles, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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