Taric vs Zyra Counter Pick

Zyra attacks from 575 units and Taric from 150, and that 425-unit gap sets the terms of the first four levels. The recorded outcome still favors the melee side: 66.5% for Taric across 182 games on patch 16.13.1, filed as an easy matchup by the computed rating. Durability explains most of it. Taric opens with 645 HP and 40 armor and finishes at 2,328 HP and 113.1 armor, while Zyra runs 574 HP and 29 armor, reaching only 100.4 by level eighteen. Bastion also passively raises the armor of Taric and of whichever ally is carrying the buff, so plant chip aimed at the marksman lands softer than Zyra needs it to.

Damage typing pulls the same direction. Zyra threatens magic damage only, so an early magic resist component blunts Deadly Spines and her plants at once, while Taric’s mixed profile, Bravado’s bonus magic hits stacked on 55 base attack damage, offers no single resistance worth rushing against him.

Execution is the last split, with Zyra rated 7 for difficulty against Taric’s 3. Her plants exist only when Deadly Spines or Grasping Roots are cast onto a seed from Rampant Growth, and a wasted seed removes most of her output for that exchange. Cosmic Radiance answers Stranglethorns by letting the knock-up land on an invulnerable target. Both champions move at 340. Kits: Taric and Zyra.