Gragas vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Gragas
based on 2,694 Gragas vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Zyra
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Gragas against Zyra matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zyra..
Gragas typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Zyra
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Who is Better, Gragas or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a poor counter for Zyra.
While Gragas does have a much lower win rate than Zyra, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Zyra.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically accumulates more CS relative to Zyra. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Zyra than with many other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 45.4% battling Zyra with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Zyra as Gragas, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Gragas vs Zyra counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.4% winrate overall.
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