Vex vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Vex
based on 3,183 Vex vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Vex
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.
Vex vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Vex in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Vex against Zyra matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Vex often has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Zyra
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Who is Better, Vex or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when trying to fight Zyra, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Vex does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Vex into Zyra.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vex is a trash counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vex against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Zyra during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex typically racks up more CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vex versus Zyra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vex bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Zyra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Zyra with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Zyra as Vex, Vex players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vex vs Zyra counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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