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.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Zyra against Yorick matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Yorick. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when facing off against Yorick, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Zyra makes a great counter for Yorick.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Yorickas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Yorick 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 allied champions during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Yorick. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Yorick.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Yorick. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Yorick build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Yorick than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Yorick as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Zyra vs Yorick clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.8% win rate overall.
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