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Zyra Guide
Patch 26.19 Diamond+·Difficulty:
Zyra is a farming mage who wins by clearing faster than the enemy jungler and then fighting from a range nobody can answer. Rush Fated Ashes, full clear, and gank only when E can land on a slowed target. Your plants carry every item effect you buy, which is why Liandry's Torment comes first every game. Hold E for the moment someone dives you: it is your most important defensive spell, more important than Flash. From level 6, R and the plants around it decide fights, so play every fight slowly, from behind your frontline, at the edge of your range.
Runes
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Farm over fight in every scenario, you clear fast enough to finish your camps before the fight starts
- •Never chase or overcommit to kills, you are a poke champion
- •Q plants have more range, E plants slow but reach less, use Q plants most of the time
- •Electrocute is the pick for ganks, Dark Harvest is the greedy pick that trades early gank damage for scaling
- •Your full build has no ability haste, so Legend: Haste and the haste shard are the only haste you get
- •Cut Down turns your long range poke into the damage that starts a fight before it starts
Skill Priority
Q
›E
›W
Q
1
·
·
4
5
W
·
2
·
·
·
E
·
·
3
·
·
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 2:46, and by 2:34 once you are Master
- •Clear bot to top, then take the scuttle
- •Walk straight to your first camp when the game starts, your passive drops plants around you and you want them there when the camp spawns
- •On the first clear, wait a moment for your passive plants before you throw Q and E into the camp
- •Place W on the next camp while the current one is still dying, so you never sit on a full stack of W charges
- •Large camps give you a W charge back, so spend them freely on buff camps and Krugs
- •Plants hold a camp on their own for a few hits, so leave the end of a camp to them and start the next one, Krugs over the wall from Red works
- •You are not strong early, full clear every camp and only interact with lanes once your camps are done
- •Gank only when E can land, slow the target with red buff or your Scorchclaw first and root them after
- •Electrocute makes one early kill worth taking, and once you are ahead your items carry the poke from there
- •Only take dragon if you or a teammate can stand in front of your plants, dead plants do no damage
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Core Build Examples
Default
Snowballing
Rylai's
vs divers
AP heavy team
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Liandry's is your first real spike, from here every plant burns whatever it hits
- •Clear your camps with two W's placed, then join the fight, you should be farming between every play
- •Before a dragon or grubs, put one seed where it sees the river and another where it sees the pit, then stand in Smite range
- •Bait with your plants, place two just out of reach so the enemy walks into them thinking they are safe
- •How close you stand depends on their team, with no hard CC or dash walk up and Q in their face, into a Vi or a Draven stay at max range
- •Play every fight slowly and to poke, never overcommit
- •Always stand behind your teammates and step away from the threats
Situational
vs divers and assassins
Good Vs
vs melee comps
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
vs magic resist
Good Vs
vs tanks
Good Vs
vs late game scalers
Good Vs
Late Game
4+ items
- •Group with your team for objectives, alone you die to anyone who reaches you
- •Hold E for the dive, a target mid dash cannot cancel it, so it cannot miss
- •When they commit onto you, R on top of yourself
- •Drop R on the engage, not the chase, plants do nothing if the enemy is already running
- •With Zhonya's, cast R, spawn your plants and sit in Zhonya's while they do the damage
- •Stand behind your frontline at max range, one step too far forward and you are dead
- •Only farm a side lane with vision and an escape, getting collapsed on there can lose the game
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Zyra Guide
Patch 26.19 Diamond+·Difficulty:
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Runes
Skill Priority
Q
›E
›W
Q
1
·
·
4
5
W
·
2
·
·
·
E
·
·
3
·
·
Core Build Examples
Default
Snowballing
Rylai's
vs divers
AP heavy team
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Situational
vs divers and assassins
Good Vs
vs melee comps
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
vs magic resist
Good Vs
vs tanks
Good Vs
vs late game scalers
Good Vs
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Farm over fight in every scenario, you clear fast enough to finish your camps before the fight starts
- •Never chase or overcommit to kills, you are a poke champion
- •Q plants have more range, E plants slow but reach less, use Q plants most of the time
- •Electrocute is the pick for ganks, Dark Harvest is the greedy pick that trades early gank damage for scaling
- •Your full build has no ability haste, so Legend: Haste and the haste shard are the only haste you get
- •Cut Down turns your long range poke into the damage that starts a fight before it starts
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 2:46, and by 2:34 once you are Master
- •Clear bot to top, then take the scuttle
- •Walk straight to your first camp when the game starts, your passive drops plants around you and you want them there when the camp spawns
- •On the first clear, wait a moment for your passive plants before you throw Q and E into the camp
- •Place W on the next camp while the current one is still dying, so you never sit on a full stack of W charges
- •Large camps give you a W charge back, so spend them freely on buff camps and Krugs
- •Plants hold a camp on their own for a few hits, so leave the end of a camp to them and start the next one, Krugs over the wall from Red works
- •You are not strong early, full clear every camp and only interact with lanes once your camps are done
- •Gank only when E can land, slow the target with red buff or your Scorchclaw first and root them after
- •Electrocute makes one early kill worth taking, and once you are ahead your items carry the poke from there
- •Only take dragon if you or a teammate can stand in front of your plants, dead plants do no damage
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Liandry's is your first real spike, from here every plant burns whatever it hits
- •Clear your camps with two W's placed, then join the fight, you should be farming between every play
- •Before a dragon or grubs, put one seed where it sees the river and another where it sees the pit, then stand in Smite range
- •Bait with your plants, place two just out of reach so the enemy walks into them thinking they are safe
- •How close you stand depends on their team, with no hard CC or dash walk up and Q in their face, into a Vi or a Draven stay at max range
- •Play every fight slowly and to poke, never overcommit
- •Always stand behind your teammates and step away from the threats
Late Game
4+ items
- •Group with your team for objectives, alone you die to anyone who reaches you
- •Hold E for the dive, a target mid dash cannot cancel it, so it cannot miss
- •When they commit onto you, R on top of yourself
- •Drop R on the engage, not the chase, plants do nothing if the enemy is already running
- •With Zhonya's, cast R, spawn your plants and sit in Zhonya's while they do the damage
- •Stand behind your frontline at max range, one step too far forward and you are dead
- •Only farm a side lane with vision and an escape, getting collapsed on there can lose the game