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Zyra ARAM Build 26.21

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Zyra grows a garden across the choke where the enemy team has to stand and fight, her plants raining thorns into the clump throughout the endless poke war. Grasping Roots snares the packed front line, and Stranglethorns erupts under all five of them at once, flinging the whole group skyward while her seeds keep blooming into more damage.

#100 of 170 champions this patch · 220 games
Win rate49.1%−1.6Games220Pick rate6.7%Last 8 patches−6.6 since 26.14Damage profilei
AP
AP 94%AD 4%True 3%
DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays
ClassicModernARAMCounter
ARAM BalanceDamage dealt-10%Damage taken+5%Ability haste-10Details ↓

Zyra Item Build

Zyra gets twice the work out of ability power, scaling both her own spells and every plant that sprouts from her seeds. Mana keeps that garden growing through a poke war with no base to refill at, and because the Abyss forces both teams to stand and fight on one choke, her itemization commits to the area damage that makes standing in her flowerbed steadily more painful the longer the fight drags.

Standard loadout · Zyra The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.
Starting items 1350g Refillable Potion×1Lost Chapter×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ››› Boots Sorcerer's Shoes84% · 48.4%Ionian Boots of Lucidity16% · 36.7%
Situational items
vs stacked resistsbuy this gameWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.BBloodletter's Curse1877.8%VVoid Staff1258.3%SShadowflame5650.0%

Best Zyra Runes

Dark Harvest matches the endless teamfighting Zyra thrives in, where her garden of plants and Grasping Roots punish a team that can never spread out on the Abyss. She is planting seeds and zoning the choke rather than hunting one target, so build around the area control that keeps the whole enemy group stuck inside her thorns.

The pre-game page Dark Harvest · Domination + Precision · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards
Domination Primary Dark HarvestDamaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim. Cheap Shot60% · 46.6%Grisly Mementos58% · 47.2%Ultimate Hunter60% · 46.6% Keystone plus three minors from Domination, two from Precision, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.
Precision Secondary Coup de Grace60% · 50.4%Presence of Mind64% · 52.5%
Stat shards OffenseAdaptive Force+9 Adaptive ForceFlexAdaptive Force+9 Adaptive ForceDefenseHealth Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)
Shards give +18Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)
Zyra wants Blackfire Torch first and then Liandry's Torment to make her plant army hit like a truck on the packed bridge. With no recall and both teams jammed on the choke, every seed she drops blooms into Thorn Spitters that rake the whole clump while Deadly Spines carves through the front. Rush the damage so Stranglethorns turns one grouped fight into an ace.

Zyra Skill Order

Grasping Roots gives up the max on the Abyss, ceding it to Deadly Spines, which claims 4, 5, 7 and 9 before the root resumes at 8, 10, 12 and 13. Rampant Growth is the one held back, waiting until 14 for a second rank.

Skill order · Zyra R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always
PriorityRR›QQ›EE›WW›Max Q first; E at level 3.
Lv 123456789101112131415161718
Q14579max 9
W214151718max 18
E38101213max 13
R61116max 16
Funnel your levels into Q so the line of thorns keeps shredding the clumped team from range, then E, then W. Deadly Spines paired with a seed lets her plants erupt on a group that has nowhere to scatter on the bridge. Save Stranglethorns for the moment both teams collide and the whole enemy pile is stacked in one spot.

Zyra ARAM Abilities

Seeds bloom into two different plants depending on what she casts near them. Deadly Spines over a seed sprouts a Thorn Spitter that fires from range, while Grasping Roots over one raises a Vine Lasher whose hits sap enemy movement speed. Rampant Growth stockpiles the seeds, recharging faster off every kill.

Abilities on the Abyss · Zyrapatch 26.22 · Abyss-tuned numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown
Garden of ThornsPassivePDeadly SpinesMax 1stQRampant GrowthMax lastWGrasping RootsMax 2ndEStranglethornsUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.
Deadly SpinesMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+36 per rank+65% APlv 15460lv 490100lv 5126140lv 7162180lv 9198220Cooldown-0.5 per ranklv 17slv 46.5slv 56slv 75.5slv 95sConstant at every rankCost55same at all ranks
Abyss changeloghow the Abyss re-balances Zyra: entries touching the selected ability light upDamage dealt−10%champion tuningDamage taken+5%champion tuningAbility haste−10champion tuning

Zyra Base Stats

Base stats · ZyraPatch 26.22
Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD53+3.2AS0.681+2.11%MS340Range575HP574+93HP55.5+0.5Armor29+4.2MR30+1.3MP418+25MP57+0.8
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