Katarina vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Katarina
based on 5,484 Katarina vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Zyra
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Katarina vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Katarina vs. Zyra counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Zyra
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Who is Better, Katarina or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Katarina does have a much lower winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Katarina into Zyraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a terribly counter for Zyra. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Zyra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 45.8% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Zyra as Katarina, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Zyra matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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