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Zyra Q plants pulling minion aggro (dear god please fix)

Vekkna·10/19/2018, 10:06:30 PM·9 votes·6,173 views

Title pretty much explains it. If a thornspitter attacks an enemy champion, it will draw minion aggro if you're close enough to the wave. This was not a documented change.

My belief if that this started with 8.11 when Zyra's root duration was increased. Around that time plant attacks also stopped proccing manaflow band.

This has been reported multiple times already. It's impactful enough to not be ignored for 5 months.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYi3IDe9zO0

Here's a running list of the rest of them:

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  • Thornspitters pulling minion aggro. Since 8.11/8.12

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/QLTLM3cs-zyra-plants-triggers-minions-agro

  • Plants dying in 1 hit to some ranged attacks (Corki, MF, Siphon Power discharge) but not other similar attacks (eg Tumble, Energized). Plants dying in 1 hit to aoe melee attacks (Yasuo Q). Plants taking damage as "aoe" rather than "DoT" with some spells (eg Corki E). Since 7.24

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/J8lRnYE7-zyra-plant-interaction-bugs

  • Ult tooltip says enraged plants deal 200% damage. In-game enraged plants only deal 150% damage. Since 7.20.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/tyWcLx0b-zyra-stranglethorn-plant-buff-not-matching-tooltip

  • Plant attacks not counting as "ability" for purposes of manaflow band. Since 8.7.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/e4tTuw16-gameplay-zyra-manaflow-band-and-plant-interaction-bug

  • Plant attacks treated as "basic attacks" by Tabi, Counterstrike, and Spiked Shell (also 1-shotting them)

23 Comments

DarkTree110/20/2018, 1:33:53 AM3 votes

at this point, with this and the fact that plant ai sometimes just doesn't exist, i'm thinking that riot's trying to make zyra into Mordekaiser 2

PopCorn Chick3n10/20/2018, 3:45:07 AM2 votes

OMG! I was gonna post something like this because I shouldn't lose 30% of my health just because I'm trying to poke the enemies with my Q and range plants somehow draws aggro on me.

Pika Fox10/20/2018, 4:21:44 PM2 votes

They changed it so single target abilities draw minion agro. Probably for the best that zyra plants draw agro to zyra. Hopefully means she can get buffed elsewhere.

The Ecdysiast10/19/2018, 10:29:37 PM1 votes

Evidently, considering her performance is still fine and the very fact they haven't fixed it yet, this isn't actually as big an issue as you're making it out to be.

Ðeath XIII10/20/2018, 3:54:12 AM1 votes

If I had to guess, the plants are getting treated as basic attacks. That covers the aggro, the tabi/spiked shell, and the manaflow band part.

Magi Mayvin10/20/2018, 4:18:58 PM1 votes

If a champion's ability or basic hits an enemy champion minions attack it, why shouldn't minions kill plants if it's a champion ability?

Zethro10/20/2018, 12:08:10 AM1 votes

shouldnt the thorn spitters pulling aggro be a good thing? it helps push the lane