Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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 stats shown on this page clarify some vital Zoe against Zyra counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 43.4% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zoe into Zyra.
Furthermore, Zoe also 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a garbage counter for Zyra. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Zyra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Zyra during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often gets more CS compared to Zyra. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zoe versus Zyra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Zyra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 43.4% when countering Zyra with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Zyra as Zoe, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zoe vs Zyra fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.4% win rate overall.
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