Elise vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Elise
based on 1,091 Elise vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Zyra
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Elise versus Zyra matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Zyra
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Who is Better, Elise or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Elise does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when facing one another, Elise also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Elise into Zyraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise 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 team members during team fights.
Elise is a trash counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise 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 tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often picks up less CS compared to Zyra. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Elise versus Zyra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Zyra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 45.4% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Zyra as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Elise vs Zyra fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Elise are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.