Bard vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Bard
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Bard vs Zyra Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Zyra
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several important Bard versus Zyra counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Bard often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Zyra, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Bard makes an ok counter for Zyra.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Zyra matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Bard is a decent counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually racks up less CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Zyra build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Zyra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 50.1% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Bard vs Zyra LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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