Nasus vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Nasus
based on 4,766 Nasus vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Zyra
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Nasus vs. Zyra matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra..
Nasus normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Zyra
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Who is Better, Nasus or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Nasus does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nasus into Zyra.
Furthermore, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nasus is a trash counter for Zyra. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus 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 presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average picks up more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Zyra build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Zyra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Zyra as Nasus, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nasus vs Zyra counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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