Hecarim vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Hecarim
based on 3,888 Hecarim vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Zyra
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Hecarim versus Zyra matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Hecarim typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Zyra
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Zyra?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Hecarim also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Zyra.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Hecarim is a garbage counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim typically accumulates less CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Hecarim versus Zyra build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Zyra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zyra as Hecarim, Hecarim players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Hecarim vs Zyra counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Hecarim are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.