Zyra vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Zyra
based on 6,346 Zyra vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Zyra vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Zyra versus Kai'Sa counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Zyra or Kai'Sa?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 55.5% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a fantastic counter to Kai'Sa.
While Zyra does have a much higher winrate than Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Kai'Saas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Kai'Sa matchups, Zyra is the better champ 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 for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra to counter Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zyra versus Kai'Sa build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Kai'Sa than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 55.5% when countering Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kai'Sa as Zyra, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zyra vs Kai'Sa matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.5% win rate overall.
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