Jax vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Jax
based on 10,789 Jax vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Zyra
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Jax in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Jax vs. Zyra counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Jax often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Zyra
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Who is Better, Jax or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Jax does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Jax also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Jax into Zyra.
Moreover, Jax has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax 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 team members during team fights.
Jax is a trash counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jax against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jax 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax typically gets more CS relative to Zyra. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Jax versus Zyra build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Zyra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Zyra as Jax, Jax players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Jax vs Zyra counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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