Zed vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Zed
based on 5,693 Zed vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Zyra
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Zed against Zyra matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zyra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Zyra
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Who is Better, Zed or Zyra?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter to Zyra.
While Zed does have a much lower winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Zyraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zed is a trash counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up more CS as Zyra. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Zed versus Zyra build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Zyra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 45.7% when playing against Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zyra as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Zyra LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Zed are given for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.