Jayce vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Jayce
based on 2,028 Jayce vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Zyra
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Jayce in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Jayce vs. Zyra counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Jayce normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Zyra
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Who is Better, Jayce or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 43.7% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Jayce does have a much lower win rate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Jayce also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jayce into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a terribly counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jayce in order 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce typically picks up much more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Jayce versus Zyra build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Jayce combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Zyra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Jayce had an average win rate of 43.7% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Zyra as Jayce, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Jayce vs Zyra face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.7% winrate overall.
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