Shyvana vs Zyra Counter Pick

A 41.5% record across 147 games on patch 16.13.1 is the harshest reading Shyvana takes on this patch, and the sample is small enough that the exact figure will move even if the direction does not.

Zyra owns the frailer statline by a wide margin, 574 base health, 2,155 at level 18, 29 armor and 30 magic resistance, and never intends to be reached. She attacks from 575 range against 150, Garden of Thorns spawns seeds around her without a cast, and both Deadly Spines and Grasping Roots grow those seeds into plants that fight for her. The plants absorb the approach, and Grasping Roots ensnares anything travelling a straight line toward her. Rated 7 for difficulty against Shyvana’s 4, she also carries only 53 attack damage, so none of that threat comes from attacks at all.

Her damage is magic, the resistance Shyvana neither builds nor emphasizes; Scalemail improves defenses on a takedown, but the armor half of that reward goes unused. Stranglethorns then knocks a target airborne as the thicket contracts, enough to strand a champion who already spent Dragon’s Descent to close the gap. The realistic angle is 350 movement speed against 340 plus the fact that one connected Emberstrike and an Inferno Aegis detonation cover most of a 574 health frame. Timing that entry before the seed field matures is the whole matchup. Kits: Shyvana and Zyra.