Zyra vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Zyra
based on 2,489 Zyra vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Zyra vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Zyra in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Zyra against Poppy matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Poppy..
Zyra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Poppy
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Who is Better, Zyra or Poppy?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Poppy, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a great counter for Poppy.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Poppy, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Poppyas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Poppy matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Poppy. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Poppy.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zyra
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How We Calculated Our Zyra vs Poppy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra usually picks up less CS relative to Poppy. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zyra versus Poppy 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 against Poppy than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Poppy with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Poppy as Zyra, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zyra vs Poppy fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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