Zyra vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Zyra
based on 5,785 Zyra vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Garen
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Zyra vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Zyra against Garen counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Garen
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Who is Better, Zyra or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter for Garen.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Garenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Garen matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Garen. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zyra in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often picks up a lot less CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Garen build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Garen as Zyra, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zyra vs Garen counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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