Leona vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Leona
based on 5,742 Leona vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Zyra
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Leona versus Zyra matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Leona normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Zyra
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Who is Better, Leona or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when taking on Zyra, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes an ok counter for Zyra.
While Leona does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Zyra.
Furthermore, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often racks up less CS relative to Zyra. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Zyra build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Zyra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Zyra with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Zyra as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Leona vs Zyra counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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