Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Yasuo vs. Zyra counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Yasuo normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Zyraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Zyra. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yasuo against Zyra.
If you would like to truly master Yasuo in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo typically gets much more CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Zyra build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Zyra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zyra as Yasuo, Yasuo players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Zyra face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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