Zyra vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Zyra
based on 2,327 Zyra vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Zyra vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Zyra vs. Shyvana counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Zyra or Shyvana?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when taking on Shyvana, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter to Shyvana.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Shyvanaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Shyvana 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 teammates during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zyra to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often gets a similar amount of CS as Shyvana. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zyra versus Shyvana build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Shyvana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Shyvana with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Shyvana as Zyra, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zyra vs Shyvana LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Zyra are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.