Azir vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Azir
based on 2,496 Azir vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Zyra
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Azir versus Zyra counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra..
Azir normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Zyra
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Who is Better, Azir or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Azir into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir 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 late stage team fights.
Azir is a garbage counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average gets much more CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Zyra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 46.4% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zyra as Azir, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Azir vs Zyra fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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