Irelia vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Irelia
based on 4,261 Irelia vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Zyra
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Irelia against Zyra counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Irelia often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Zyra
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Who is Better, Irelia or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Irelia into Zyra.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Irelia is a bad counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Zyra during both the laning 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 suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average picks up much more CS as Zyra. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Zyra build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Zyra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Zyra with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Zyra as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Irelia vs Zyra face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Irelia are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.