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.
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
The Zyra Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zyra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Zyra perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zyra is paired with Leona, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Leona helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zyra is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Zyra plays with Leona on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of covering Zyra in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Zyra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Leona is a good ally for Zyra. By being on the same team as Zyra, she improves their win rate by 2.2% to 54.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Zyra and Leona that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Zyra. That means Zyra players don't need to be very careful when finding Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Zyra and Leona together, you may not be providing your other allies very much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to work well with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Zyra and Leona synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 54.8% helping carry Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Zyra players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Leona with Zyra are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.