Garen vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Garen
based on 5,785 Garen vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Zyra Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Zyra
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Garen against Zyra matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Garen normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Zyra
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Who is Better, Garen or Zyra?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Zyra.
Furthermore, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen 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 teammates during team fights.
Garen is a garbage counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Garen 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often racks up much more 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. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Garen versus Zyra build include Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.6% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Zyra as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Garen vs Zyra face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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