Zyra Plants Harder to Zone With [GAMEPLAY]

Chubbles·9/20/2015, 12:54:22 AM·8 votes·618 views

I find Zyra's plants to be more difficult to zone with after patch 5.18. The problem is that Zyra's plants prioritize whatever I have last SUCCESSFULLY auto attacked. This means if they lose target on an enemy champ and I auto attack a minion they won't retarget the champion unless I land an auto on them. Before you just had to right click the enemy, you didn't need to get the attack off, and your plants would switch targets.

Patch 5.18 makes zoning a lot more difficult as I have to run up to the enemy champion and auto attack them each time they run out of range of my plants. That's a dangerous thing to do for slow squishy Zyra. This could be an intended change but it wasn't in the patch notes. I would like to see the plants always prioritize champs within their attack range or prioritize what I have last right clicked, not just what I have last auto attacked.

2 Comments

A Miss Fortune9/20/2015, 6:42:17 PM1 votes

Zyra's plants for me, so far have:

  • Altogether stopped attacking and kind of AFK'ed for a few seconds?
  • Stopped attacking what I'm attacking and switch targets to a random, close one
  • Flat out refused to attack what I was attacking from the start

The changes to Zyra's plant AI have yet again nerfed an already very weak and underwhelming champion. I don't understand the issue with Zyra's plant AI. Just let them prioritize champions regardless of who Zyra is attacking and make them do more than just force you to over extend.

Ulquiorra9959/21/2015, 10:13:54 AM1 votes

I've played 3 games with Zyra since the plant AI "upgrade", and this shit happened in every one of them: Plant AA's a champion once, then, I shit you not, switches to a nearby minion although I didn't AA anything and said champion didn't even leave plant range. So I need to: a.) Not be near minions (if I wanted to play the isolation mini game I'd be playing Kha) or b.) Risk using my AA's which barely tickle as a squishy immobile champion. Good luck doing that against a Zed in mid or Leona on bot.

And to add insult to injury, Haunted Zyra's plants are missing their AA particles.