Janna vs Zyra SUPPORT Matchup Guide | LaneStomp

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Janna vs Zyra

Confidence mediumUpdated Jun 8, 2026

Overview

Prioritize shielding and peeling to protect your scaling ADC from Zyra's poke and root follow-up.
Deny Zyra's brush control with charged (Q) to reduce her plant zone dominance and root angles.
Maintain stable wave state to prevent Zyra from forcing your ADC through her zone control and plants.

Trading pattern

Hold (Q) to interrupt Zyra's root (E) engage and protect ADC access during trades.
Shield (E) your ADC's key auto attacks to negate return damage from Zyra's plants.
Use (W) slow defensively to disengage when Zyra commits to a root or plant zone control.

Danger windows

(E) root combined with plant zones creates immediate threat windows for your ADC access.
Zyra controlling brush with seeds forces you to play cautiously around fog-of-war and avoid face-checking.
Level 6 (R) can punish committed engages; hold (R) to reset fights or disengage your ADC safely.

Early game

Track the level 2 race closely and only contest brush if your ADC can follow your (Q) engage.
Use tornado (Q) to contest brush and prevent Zyra from planting seeds for poke and root setups.
Avoid overextending early to protect ADC from Zyra's root (E) and plant poke in brush and wave gaps.

Power spikes

Level 2 unlocks your shield plus knockup (Q) for strong peel and disengage against Zyra's root.
Level 3 grants full peel kit; use (Q) and (E) to deny Zyra's brush control and protect ADC trades.
Level 6 (R) enables fight resets and disengage, crucial to counter Zyra's ultimate zone control in clustered fights.

Win conditions

Convert brush denial and (Q) threat into safe ADC trades and denied enemy ADC positioning.
Ward river and control vision to prevent Zyra's roams and set up safe dragon fights.
Use (R) and shields to enable scaling ADCs to survive poke and reset bad fights, securing late-game teamfight impact.