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How to Play an Effective Zyra Support






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Introduction
Hello and welcome to my first League of Legends guide! I am a Gold V player and I have a very good understanding of how to play in the bottom lane, be it the ADC or the Support role. Zyra is my favourite support to play and she has everything to offer in her kit... except mobility! This guide is for people who are familiar with the basics of the support role that wish to give Zyra support a try. |
Pros - Very versatile kit in general - Above average base movement speed - 575 attack range, easy to harass with in lane - Tons of CC with ![]() - Excellent engage follow-up and disengage - Excellent at defending objectives and zoning - Never falls off, always a relevant threat - Residual damage from plants adds up quickly - Decent burst, can delete a squishy champion |
Cons - No mobility outside of summoner spells - Plant DPS is very limited against AoE and DoT - Skill shot based abilities with long wind-ups - Below average AP scaling on abilities - Very squishy due to her absurdly low base HP |
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Core Items
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Start with this trinket and use the wards to ward the river when you push the lane. Use the wards to keep vision in the lane bushes when the enemy support tries to abuse these bushes. |
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Warding with a Sightstone is a key part of playing support. Buy this right after upgrading ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This item gives you every stat you could ever want on Zyra. Build into it after ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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These are your core boots. Do not buy any other type of boots or you will be losing out on too much damage to perform your duty of zoning the enemy ADC with your damaging abilities and plants. In most cases you'll buy them after ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Build a ![]() ![]() |
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Build this item as soon as possible after ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This will be the very last full item you build. I'll even buy ![]() |
Situational Items
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Buy this if you are against multiple mobile assassins or one fed assassin. Since Zyra lacks mobility, she is a sitting duck when assassins jump on her. To counterplay an assassin that dives on you, throw up ![]() ![]() |
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Buy this if you are against at least two champions that deal large amounts of magic damage. It will mitigate their damage dealt to your entire team while also providing you with much-needed survivability. Upgrade this into ![]() |
Zyra needs to get to level 3 before she can really start dishing out damage in trades through reliable plant placement. In the early levels you'll be using your Q -



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This summoner spell is for the more aggressive Zyra players. It will secure early kills quite handily. Use it when you land your ![]() ![]() |
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Exhaust is as good as you can time it. Use it in lane on the enemy ADC when both sides are committed to the fight. ADCs lose a catastrophic amount of their damage while they are exhausted. This summoner spell turns fights around completely when used correctly in the bottom lane and its impact as the game goes on scales much better than ![]() |
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This is the best summoner spell in the game and absolutely mandatory on Zyra. It is your only escape so position yourself correctly in order to avoid having to use Flash defensively! |
Zyra can fit into almost any team composition as a powerful counter-engaging mage. It is more important to consider the enemy's team composition when picking Zyra because she is countered handily by several champions (both ADCs and Supports) in the bottom lane.
While playing Zyra you have to always pay attention to the positioning of your opponents (ALL of them!) and your ADC! I cannot stress this enough. Your cc gives you the ability to peel very effectively. You have to ensure that both you AND your ADC stay alive during fights so position yourself accordingly. I like to be near enough to my ADC so that I can use



Remember: Use every ability you have available when the enemy commits to a teamfight. It will ultimately fall on you to keep as many of your teammates alive as possible with your cc while also catching out and deleting as many of your enemies as possible. You have a very powerful kit at your disposal while you are playing this champion so fully abuse it in the environment that Zyra shines the brightest in: teamfights!
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Lucian can out trade you early and abuse your low base HP by bursting you down. He has a dash that allows him to minimize your plants' damage while also dodging out of the way of your skillshots. Excluding ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Miss Fortune is THE counter to Zyra right now as evident from her being picked in the support role against Zyra during Worlds 2016. Miss Fortune's damage is huge and plants provide her more means through which to land ![]() ![]() |
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Though Blitzcrank's ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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