Zyra

Zyra Build

Rise of the Thorns

Role: Support Pick Rate: 2.6% Win Rate: 51.93%

Recommended Build

Summoner Spells

Flash Flash
Ignite Ignite

Skill Priority

E Q W

Items

Start
World Atlas
Health Potion
Core
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike Zaz'Zak's Realmspike
Liandry's Torment Liandry's Torment
Sorcerer's Shoes Sorcerer's Shoes
Late
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Morellonomicon

Runes

Most Played
Sorcery
Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet 63.2% · 51.6% WR
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band 77.2% · 51.5% WR
Transcendence
Transcendence 74.9% · 51.5% WR
Scorch
Scorch 76.2% · 51.5% WR
Domination
Taste of Blood
Taste of Blood 1.6% · 50.6% WR
Relentless Hunter
Relentless Hunter 1.4% · 51.5% WR
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Health Scaling
Health Scaling
Best WR
Sorcery
Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet 63.2% · 51.6% WR
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band 77.2% · 51.5% WR
Transcendence
Transcendence 74.9% · 51.5% WR
Scorch
Scorch 76.2% · 51.5% WR
Precision
Legend: Haste
Legend: Haste
Cut Down
Cut Down
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force
Health
Health

Skill Order

Q
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
W
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
E
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
R
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Win Rate by Elo

Iron Iron 46.07%
Bronze Bronze 49.84%
Silver Silver 51.17%
Gold Gold 51.25%
Platinum Platinum 51.51%
Emerald Emerald 51.30%
Diamond Diamond 51.55%
Master Master 51.61%
Grandmaster Grandmaster 50.00%
Challenger Challenger 57.50%
All Elos All Elos 51.27%

Best Counters and Matchups for Zyra

See all counters for Zyra

Top 5 Counters Against Zyra

Galio
47.1% WR -1.4%
Anivia
47.1% WR -2.9%
Yuumi
47.5% WR -3.7%
Elise
48.2% WR +0.3%
Rell
48.2% WR +1.4%

Top 5 Best Matchups for Zyra

Swain
60.5% WR +10.1%
Zoe
58.8% WR +8.2%
Mel
57.9% WR +2.6%
Neeko
55.6% WR +5.8%
Morgana
54.9% WR +7.0%

Patch History

V14.15
  • Garden of Thorns Cooldown increased to 13.6 − 9.05 (based on level) seconds from 13.33 − 8.8 (based on level).
V14.14
  • Garden of Thorns Cooldown reduced to 13.33 − 8.8 (based on level) seconds from 13.5 − 9.25 (based on level). Plant base damage reduced to 15 − 75 (based on level) from 16 − 84 (based on level). Plant AP ratio increased to 20% AP from 18% AP. Plant bonus monster damage reduced to 50 − 100 (based on level) from 60 − 100 (based on level).
V14.9
  • General Adjusted splash artwork for SKT T1 Zyra.
V14.8
  • Garden of Thorns Bug Fix: Certain single target abilities no longer deal an incorrect amount of damage to Thorn Spitters and Vine Lashers instead of the intended 8.
  • Street Demons Zyra Stranglethorns Bug Fix: Area indicator now renders correctly over terrain.
V14.4
  • Garden of Thorns Plant base damage reduced to 16 − 84 (based on level) from 20 − 88 (based on level). Plant bonus non-epic monster damage increased to 60 − 100 (based on level) from 40 − 100 (based on level).
V14.3
  • Stats Base mana regeneration reduced to 7 from 13. Mana regeneration growth increased to 0.8 from 0.4.
  • Deadly Spines Mana cost reduced to 55 from 70.
  • Rampant Growth Seed charge on enemy kill increased to 35% from 20%.
V13.21
  • Stats Base attack speed increased to 0.681 from 0.625.
  • Garden of Thorns Plant base damage reduced to 20 − 88 (based on level) from 20 − 100 (based on level). Plant AP ratio increased to 18% AP from 15% AP.
  • Deadly Spines Base damage increased to 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200. AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 60% AP.
  • Grasping Roots Base damage reduced to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240. AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
V13.14
  • Garden of Thorns Plants: Monster damage reduced to 100% from 150%. New Effect: Now deal 40 − 100 (based on level) bonus damage against monsters. Damage taken from ranged champions increased to 5 from 4. Area of effect damage taken reduced to 3 from 4.
  • Rampant Growth Number of seeds upon first rank increased to 2 from 1.
  • Grasping Roots New Effect: Missile now casts from the position of post-cast instead of pre-cast. Removed: No longer locks out Flash while casting.
  • Stranglethorns New Effect: Now casts at maximum range instead of walking into range. Tick interval reduced to 0.25 seconds per tick from 0.5 seconds per tick.
V12.16
  • Grasping Roots Post-cast lock out timer reduced to 0.15 seconds from varying between 0.4 to 0.15.
V12.10
  • Stats Base health increased to 574 from 504. Health growth increased to 93 from 79. Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3. Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
V11.22
  • General Bug Fix: Voiceover issues for many skins have been fixed.
V11.10
  • Rampant Growth Recharge timer reduced to 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 seconds from 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12.
  • Grasping Roots Vine Lasher slow increased to 30% from 25%.
V11.2
  • General Bug Fix: Horizon Focus' Hypershot no longer resets when she triggers it and applies Scorch.
V11.1
  • Stats Base attack damage reduced to 53 from 53.376.
V10.14
  • General Recommended items now includes jungle items if the player has Smite equipped.
V10.13
  • Garden of Thorns Bug Fix: Plants are now able to properly activate Manaflow Band.
V10.6
  • Garden of Thorns New Effect: Plants now deal 150% damage against non-epic monsters.
V10.1
  • Grasping Roots Vine Lasher slow reduced to 25% from 30%. New Effect: Slows from multiple Vine Lashers stack up to 2 times.
V9.17
  • Stranglethorns Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 100 / 120 / 140. Cooldown reduced to 110 / 100 / 90 seconds from 130 / 120 / 110.
V9.10
  • Garden of Thorns Damage from basic attacks that doesn't trigger on-hit effects (ex. Corki's Hextech Munitions, Miss Fortune's Love Tap, etc.) no longer deals a separate instance of damage to her plants.
V9.6
  • Plants New Effect: Now triggers effects that are triggered by pets (i.e. on-ability-hit effects).
V9.4
  • General Bootless walk animation added.
V9.3
  • Thorn Spitter and Vine Lasher Plant base damage reduced to 20 − 100 (based on level) from 24 − 109 (based on level).
V9.2
  • Stats Base mana regeneration reduced to 13 from 15.335.
V9.1
  • Rampant Growth New Effect: If Zyra casts Rampant Growth during Deadly Spines' or Grasping Roots' cast times, she'll now ignore movement commands until both abilities have been cast.
V8.21
  • Garden of Thorns Bug Fix: Plants no longer attempt to target stuff without health bars (ex. Jarvan IV's flag, Thresh's lantern).
V8.11
  • Grasping Roots Root duration increased to 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds from 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75.
V8.9
  • Stats Base mana increased to 418 from 334. Mana growth reduced to 25 from 50. Base mana regeneration increased to 15.335 from 11.5.
V8.7
  • Wildfire Zyra Deadly Spines Bug Fix: The back side of Thorn Spitters' leaves are now fully textured.
V8.3
  • Stats Base health regeneration reduced to 5.5 from 5.69.
V8.1
  • Grasping Roots Bug Fix: Fixed very rare instances where canceling an auto attack could also cause an in-flight projectile to disappear.
V7.24
  • Stats Base mana regeneration increased to 11.5 from 8.5. Mana regeneration growth reduced to 0.4 from 0.8.
  • Garden of Thorns Seed spawn radius reduced to 900 from 1300. Plant duration increased to 8 seconds at all levels from 5 − 7.5 (based on level). Spawned seed duration reduced to 30 seconds from 45. Plants: Gold bounty reduced to 3 from 5. Base health increased to 8 from 4. Ranged champion damage increased to 4 from 2. Melee champion damage increased to 8 from 2. Removed: On-hit effects dealing bonus damage. Single target ability damage increased to 8 from 4. Area of effect ability damage increased to 4 from 2. DOT ability damage reduced to 1 from 2. Large minion/monster damage increased to 2 from 1.
  • Rampant Growth Removed: Increases plants' health to 4 − 6 (based on Rampant Growth's rank). New Effect: Killing an enemy grants 20% charge toward a seed. This is increased to 100% for enemy champion takedowns, large monster and large minion kills.
  • Grasping Roots Base damage increased to 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200.
  • Stranglethorns New Effect: Enraged plants gain 50% current and maximum health.
V7.22
  • Stats Base armor increased to 29 from 20.04. Base health increased to 504 from 499.32. Health growth increased to 79 from 74.
V7.20
  • Stranglethorns Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays the correct damage bonus for plants empowered by Stranglethorns.
V7.15
  • Wildfire Zyra Bug Fix: Crown no longer stretches during several animations.
V7.12
  • General Bug Fix: Must now actually fire a basic attack to command plants to focus a target. Issuing an attack command and immediately cancelling it no longer triggers the redirect.
V7.11
  • Deadly Spines Removed: Thornspitters killed increasing the minion killed stat.
  • Grasping Roots Removed: Vine Lashers killed increasing the minion killed stat.
V7.9
  • Stats Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.
V7.5
  • General New Effect: New death animation.
  • Haunted Zyra General Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where she wasn't able to use the champion mastery emote during death. Thorn Spitter Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where enrage was barely visible on Thorn Spitters.
  • SKT T1 Zyra Stranglethorns Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where no on-ground particles would appear beneath Zyra when using Stranglethorns.
V7.3
  • General Removed: Thornspitters and Vine Lashers will no longer always target nearby enemy champions on-spawn instead of the closest enemy unit, even if the ability that spawned them didn't hit a champion.
  • Deadly Spines Mana cost increased to 70 from 60.
V7.2
  • General Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Zyra's dead body could intercept ARAM's snowball.
  • Rampant Growth Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Zyra's seeds from both Rampant Growth and Garden of Thorns weren't respecting their spawn cap.
V6.19
  • General Bug Fix: Zyra's plants now properly count as pets rather than area-of-effect abilities for the slow effect of Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
V6.15
  • Deadly Spines Base damage increased to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180. AP scaling increased to 60% AP from 55% AP.
V6.14
  • Garden of Thorns Bug Fix: Reactivating while Zyra is recalling in brush (thus giving away her location)
V6.13
  • Garden of Thorns Seed spawn time increased to 13 / 11.5 / 10 / 8.5 (based on level) seconds from 11 − 6.75 (based on level)
  • Deadly Spines Bug Fix: Thorn Spitters automatically targeting enemy champions even if Zyra doesn't damage them
  • Rampant Growth Cooldown changed to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 seconds from 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13
V6.9
  • Gameplay Update General New ability icons Stats Health increased to 499 from 479 Movement speed increased to 340 from 325 Garden of Thorns - New I Zyra spawns one (occasionally two) seeds every 11 − 6.75 (based on level) seconds in her vicinity but they do not grant vision. Seeds prefer spawning in brush and cannot do so too close together, and the timer on her next seed delays if Zyra is concealed within a brush and there is no room for additional seeds. Zyra can only have 8 seeds planted at a time, which last for 45 seconds. Casting Deadly Spines or Grasping Roots causes nearby seeds to sprout plants, which last for a short duration and deal magic damage per attack. Plants beyond the first attacking a single target deal only 50% damage. Plant health reduced to 4 from 6 New Effect: Plants take 0.5 damage per on-hit effect ( Blade of the Ruined King, Toxic Shot) and from applied damage-over-time ( Noxious Blast, Blaze) Plant damage reduced to 29 − 114 (based on level) (+ 15% AP) from 29.5 − 140 (based on level) (+ 20% AP) Plant duration reduced to 5 − 7.5 (based on level) seconds from 10 at all ranks. Deadly Spines Renamed from Deadly Bloom Area of effect changed to rectangular and perpendicular to Zyra from circular Plant-spawning area increased (relative to damage one) Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 Base damage reduced to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 from 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 AP ratio reduced to (+ 55% AP) from (+ 65% AP) Rampant Growth Removed: Passively granting cooldown reduction New Effect: Plants passively gain Champions killed with Comeuppance (R)0.4 / 0.8 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 2 maximum health for a total 4.4 / 4.8 / 5.2 / 5.6 / 6 Seed duration increased to 60 seconds from 30 Stranglethorns Removed: Enraged plants gaining 50% bonus attack speed Added: Enraged plants deal 50% bonus damage

Recommended build

What players actually run on Zyra on the current patch: summoner spells, skill priority, starting, core and late items, runes and skill order.

Every entry comes with its pick rate (how often it is chosen) and, where available, its win rate. For runes, Most Played is the page the majority takes and Best WR the variant that wins most among those with enough games: when they differ, the second is usually the sharper choice, the first the safer one.

Win rate by elo

Zyra's win rate in each rank tier, from Iron to Challenger, plus all tiers combined.

A champion that climbs with rank is usually one that rewards mechanics or game knowledge; one that peaks in low elo is often easy to pick up and punished by better players. Read the tier you play in, not the average. Tiers with no data for this patch are hidden.

Counters and matchups

A preview of the counters page: the five opponents Zyra struggles against the most, and the five it beats most often, on the current patch.

Percentages are Zyra's own win rate in each duel, with the gap to its overall win rate. The full lists, with every matchup that has enough games, are on the counters page linked below each table.

Patch history

Balance changes that touched Zyra, patch by patch, most recent first, as published in the official patch notes.

The ten latest patches are shown, the older ones fold out. Use it to read the win rate movements above: a jump right after a patch is usually a buff or a nerf, not a change in how people play the champion.