Skarner vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Skarner
based on 500 Skarner vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Zyra
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Skarner against Zyra counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zyra..
Skarner usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Zyra
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Who is Better, Skarner or Zyra?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Skarner usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Skarner does have a lower winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Skarner also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Skarner into Zyra.
Moreover, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Skarner 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 late stage team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter to Zyra. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zyra. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Skarner versus Zyra build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Skarner used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Zyra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing against Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Zyra as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Skarner vs Zyra counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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