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Rise of the Thorns

Zyra

DifficultyMedium
Role
Mage
Lane
SupportMid

Roles and difficulty from the global official site, lane from the China-server official site

Latest Meta Stats

Mid
S
Win Rate52.4%
Pick Rate3.0%#22
Ban Rate45.1%
Support
OP
Win Rate53.0%
Pick Rate5.3%#13
Ban Rate45.1%

Popular Zyra builds in game

Taken from the in-game loadout screen as of 2026-08-26. The pick count and win rate are shown exactly as the game reports them.

Build 1Win rate 54.72%Picks 9,228

Cut enemy shields with Oceanid's Trident

  • Spectral Sickle
  • Liandry's Torment
  • Rylai's Crystal Scepter
  • Spellslinger's Shoes
  • Morellonomicon
  • Oceanid's Trident

When the enemy team has champions who hand out shields

Oceanid's Trident reduces any shield an enemy champion gains for 3 seconds once you deal ability damage to them. Area of effect abilities cut shields by (5% of AP + 25)%, capped at 45%; single target abilities by (5% of AP + 40)%, capped at 60%. Liandry's Torment burns enemies hit by damaging abilities and empowered attacks for 2% max HP magic damage per second over 3 seconds. Magic damage on enemy champions also applies Morellonomicon's 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds, and the build totals +1150 Max Health.

Build 2Win rate 54.19%Picks 5,295

Percent magic penetration plus an ally heal

  • Spectral Sickle
  • Blackfire Torch
  • Liandry's Torment
  • Rylai's Crystal Scepter
  • Cryptbloom
  • Spellslinger's Shoes

When enemy frontliners stack Magic Resistance and get hard to kill

Cryptbloom adds 30% Magic Penetration and 20 Ability Haste, bringing the build to +38% and +18 Magic Penetration. Its Life from Death triggers when a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies. Allies are healed for 100 + 20% AP, on a 60-second cooldown. Blackfire Torch grants 4% AP for each enemy champion or monster burning from its Baleful Blaze.

Build 3Win rate 55.57%Picks 5,121

Shred Magic Resistance and cut enemy healing

  • Blackfire Torch
  • Boots of Mana
  • Liandry's Torment
  • Rylai's Crystal Scepter
  • Bloodletter's Curse
  • Morellonomicon

When enemy healers keep their team alive and you cannot finish kills

Bloodletter's Curse cuts a champion's MR by 7.5% for 6 seconds whenever you land magic damage from an ability or passive, stacking to a 30% maximum. Boots of Mana covers the footwear at 1200G, supplying 8 Magic Penetration, 45 Movement Speed and 75% Mana Regeneration. Ignite's Grievous Wounds, plus the 50% Grievous Wounds Morellonomicon applies on magic damage to enemy champions, cut into enemy healing. Totals come to +1300 Max Health and +50 Ability Haste.

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Skill Order (Lv 1 - 15)

1
3
2
1
Ult
1
1
3
Ult
3
3
2
Ult
2
2

Prioritize Skill 1, your main poke tool, to maximize your harass in lane.

Zyra Skills

Garden of Thorns
Passive

Garden of Thorns

A Thorn Spitter with 30 HP (30 + 22%AP) sprouts when Grasping Roots first hits an enemy champion. If no enemy champion is hit, a Thorn Spitter will sprout when Grasping Roots ends.
Thorn Spitters automatically attack targets within 6 second(s) of sprouting, dealing 10 magic damage (10 + 10%AP).
An additional Thorn Spitter sprouts with every enemy champion, large monster, or epic monster Deadly Spines or Stranglethorns hits.

Thorn Spitters deal an additional 23 damage against monsters ((Lv)).
Thorn Spitters spawned after the first deal 50% damage against the same target.
Enemy champions' abilities deal 35% damage against Thorn Spitters.
Non-epic monsters deal 35% damage against Thorn Spitters.
Deadly Spines
Skill 1

Deadly Spines

8s
Vines spread and burst into spines, dealing 60 magic damage (60 + 60%AP) and sprouting 1 Thorn Spitter(s).
DetailsLVL 1LVL 2LVL 3LVL 4
Cooldown87.576.5
Base Damage60115170225
Rampant Growth
Skill 2

Rampant Growth

18s
Nearby Thorn Spitters become enraged, resetting their duration and gaining 35% bonus HP and 50% Attack Speed.
DetailsLVL 1LVL 2LVL 3LVL 4
Cooldown18161412
HP35%40%45%50%
Grasping Roots
Skill 3

Grasping Roots

12s
Zyra sends binding vines forward, rooting enemies hit for 1 second(s), and dealing 60 magic damage (60 + 40%AP).
A Thorn Spitter spawns when the ability first hits an enemy champion or when it ends. (Large and epic monsters are also considered as champions.)
DetailsLVL 1LVL 2LVL 3LVL 4
Base Damage60100140180
Root Duration11.251.51.75
Stranglethorns
Ult

Stranglethorns

80s
Summons the fury of nature, growing a twisted thicket that deals 150 magic damage (150 + 50%AP) at a target location. After 2 second(s), the vines snap upwards, knocking up enemies hit for 1 second(s).

One additional Thorn Spitter spawns for each enemy champion, large monster, or epic monster hit.
DetailsLVL 1LVL 2LVL 3
Cooldown807060
Base Damage150225300

Base Stats

League of Legends: Wild Rift (China) official champion library (patch 7.2, as of 2026-08-25)

The site's latest patch is 7.2d, but these figures come from 7.2. The 8 champions adjusted since then — Yone, Jinx, Leona, Rumble, Nasus, Ryze, Jayce, Nidalee — no longer match the live game.

Official ratings
Damage3/3
Survivability1/3
Utility1/3
Difficulty2/3

A three-step guide set by the official champion library. For difficulty, a higher number means harder to play.

1
Health600LV15 2280
Mana420LV15 1120
Attack Damage54LV15 103
Armor37LV15 100
Magic Resist36LV15 57
Movement Speed360

Critical damage is 175% for every champion. These figures exclude items and runes.

Zyra Strengths

  • Strong zoning with plants
  • AoE burst damage and strong CC
  • Safe bush checks and vision with plants

Zyra Weaknesses

  • ×Slow with no dash or escape
  • ×Mage-level durability; fragile
  • ×Damage can vary with plant AI

Early Game

Plant-based poke and zoning are strong from the start. Time your skills for when the enemy steps up for CS, grow plants there, and take control of the lane.

Mid Game

Waiting in a bush and hitting a passing enemy with the root into a full combo is a strong play. Keep up vision control and hold the area to maintain pressure.

Late Game

Your damage matches a mage's, but Zyra herself is very fragile. Keep deploying plants from behind your team, and answer diving tanks and assassins with the root and the Ult knock-up.

Teamfights

Ideally, fight in narrow jungle spaces. Cast Ult so it covers the whole enemy team. The wide knock-up and the damage from enraged plants can swing the fight at once.

⚠️ Common Mistakes

Casting Skill 2 (Rampant Growth) with no plants out

Zyra's Skill 2 (Rampant Growth) enrages and strengthens the plants around her. With no plants out, the cast does nothing and you only lose the cooldown. The correct order is to grow plants with Skill 1 or Skill 3 first, then cast Skill 2 to empower them. That sequence brings out the plants' damage and lets you land burst reliably together with the Lv5 Ult.

Zyra Combos

Basic Combo

Bloom the plants with Skill 1 on the root from Skill 3, empower them with Skill 2, then layer Ult on top.

3
1
2
Ult

Champions Zyra struggles against (reader votes)

↑ loses the matchup / ↓ not really

Leona

Zyra Patch History

Zyra
ZyraPatch 7.2
Buff
Thorn Paradise Plant damage AP ratio: 15% → 10% [New] Plants now inherit Zyra's MR penetration and MR penetration rate when they deal damage. The AP ratio drops five points, but plants now carry Zyra's own MR penetration. Building Void Amethyst or Void Staff does more for plant damage than simply stacking AP does. It also fixes the case where plants barely scratched an MR-heavy tank or support, so seeding the ground before a teamfight keeps its value deep into the late game.
Zyra
ZyraPatch 6.3f
Adjust
Rework Zyra's whole kit is reworked to make her plants a bigger presence Plants Stats adjusted, additional effects added W Reworked to enrage nearby plants Plants are no longer a side effect of Zyra's kit — they are the main body of her damage. Because the plants themselves carry adjusted stats and new effects, how many you keep alive decides how much output you actually have. W now enrages the plants already standing around her rather than acting on its own, so the order matters: set plants down first, then press W. Holding a spot where those plants have line of sight into the fight is what decides how much Zyra contributes.

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