How to win the jungle race as Nunu & Willump against Zyra · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Nunu & Willump's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Zyra.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Zyra | At level 1 this window belongs to Zyra: the E root into seeded plants wins any fight near their garden, and a Grasping Roots snare into spitting plants melts you where you stand. Kill the seeds on sight and never take a fight inside her planted garden. Skip the level-1 crossing and bank tempo on the opposite side of the map. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Zyra | A Grasping Roots snare into spitting plants melts you where you stand — Nunu & Willump has no answer to that at level 2. The E root into seeded plants wins any fight near their garden on their half of the map too, so refuse the level-2 skirmish and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Zyra | Double-seed combos turn river chokes into kill zones, and Nunu & Willump has no clean answer to it at the opening scuttle — a Grasping Roots snare into spitting plants melts you where you stand. Kill the seeds on sight and never take a fight inside her planted garden, and give up the first scuttle rather than the kill. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Zyra — Path Opposite | Do not trade windows with Zyra here: she seeds lane brushes through 4-5, and a gank that starts on a grown plant is already won. Path opposite, keep your entrances warded, and answer the map, not the champion. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Zyra's R | A Stranglethorns knock-up over her plant garden deletes whoever holds the point — Nunu & Willump loses the straight post-6 duel. Fight her away from her plants — the ultimate without setup is survivable, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Stranglethorns is not on. |
| First Item Spike | Liandry's Spike | Completing Liandry's Torment puts a max-health burn on every Consume (Q), Biggest Snowball Ever! (W) and Snowball Barrage (E) hit, so camps and waves melt and brawlers who try to out-sustain you lose a chunk of health every trade. Zyra's first item is where plant damage stops being chip and starts removing a squishy health bar in one rotation. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Zyra Outscales | You lose the long game outright: she covers a choke in plants and the knock-up ends any fight taken inside it, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start your clear at the Red or Blue Buff camp utilizing your Consume true damage to maximize early clear speed without needing a heavy leash. Zyra clears fast with plants doing the work, and she reaches three with seeds already placed where she intends to fight.
Ranked by the race windows in Nunu & Willump's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Nunu & Willump vs Zyra report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Zyra pressures 6 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Zyra pressures 6 of the 7 windows, so Nunu & Willump is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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