Zyra vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Zyra
based on 3,304 Zyra vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Gwen Counter Build
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Core Zyra Items
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Zyra vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Zyra versus Gwen matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gwen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Gwen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Gwen
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Who is Better, Zyra or Gwen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 54.3% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a great counter for Gwen.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate than Gwen, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Gwenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Gwen 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Gwen 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra usually racks up less CS compared to Gwen. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zyra versus Gwen build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Gwen than with most other common builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Gwen as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zyra vs Gwen fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.3% win rate overall.
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