Nidalee vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Nidalee
based on 1,122 Nidalee vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Zyra
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Nidalee versus Zyra counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Zyra
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 42.0% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Zyraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Zyra. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Zyra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 42.0% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zyra as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nidalee vs Zyra matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.0% winrate overall.
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