Zyra vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Zyra
based on 1,272 Zyra vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Zyra vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Zyra vs. Kalista counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Kalista
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Who is Better, Zyra or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 59.4% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zyra into Kalistaas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Kalista matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra typically accumulates a lot less CS as Kalista. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zyra versus Kalista build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Kalista than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 59.4% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Kalista as Zyra, Zyra players 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 rune combinations players chose for Zyra vs Kalista face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 59.4% winrate overall.
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