Zyra vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Zyra
based on 5,484 Zyra vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Zyra vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Zyra against Katarina counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Katarina. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Katarina
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Who is Better, Zyra or Katarina?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a great counter to Katarina.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate than Katarina, when facing one another, Zyra also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Katarinaas her relative depth means 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 Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Katarina matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zyra is a great counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often accumulates less CS compared to Katarina. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zyra versus Katarina build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Katarina than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 54.2% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Katarina 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 runes we have analyed for Zyra vs Katarina counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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