Zyra vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Zyra
based on 1,388 Zyra vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Zyra vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Zyra versus Ryze matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Ryze
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Who is Better, Zyra or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Ryze, with a 55.1% win rate. As a result, Zyra makes a fantastic counter to Ryze.
While Zyra does have a much higher winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Ryzeas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Ryze matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zyra is a great counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Ryze during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often picks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zyra versus Ryze build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Ryze than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 55.1% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Ryze 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Zyra vs Ryze counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.1% win rate overall.
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