Zyra vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Zyra
based on 4,261 Zyra vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Zyra vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Zyra vs. Irelia matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Irelia
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Who is Better, Zyra or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when taking on Irelia, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Zyra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Ireliaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Irelia 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 teammates during team fights.
Zyra is an above average counter to Irelia. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zyra versus Irelia build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Irelia 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for Zyra vs Irelia counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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