How is everyone doing with the new Zyra?
Hi everyone, I'm a Zyra main with 230k champion points and currently in Platinum 2. I played Zyra since I was silver 3 until now. I love the old Zyra a lot and the only thing in her kit that I didn't like was her death passive, but after the rework I realized that passive wasn't so bad after all compared to now. Because of Zyra's current passive (randomly placing seeds in a short amount of time; maximum 8 seeds), a lot of her abilities power were shift to her plants. When Zyra rework came out, I immediately went to PBE and tried it out.
After a few games, I felt something went off and it was her Q new shape, which got me really annoy to use even now. Not only it was annoying/harder to use because the shape got more narrow and longer length which make it a bit shorter range compared to the circle one, its damage also got lower. This literally change my gameplay style because I used to max her Q no matter mid or supp role. Its poke damage was just too good to not max it first when land it. Now with the new Zyra Q, I could do the same amount of damage like the old Zyra Q but it requires some plants to attack them a lot, which is very situational. I just don't feel that reward feeling when you land your Q and a seed on someone and see 30-40% of their health bar go down. I do see people like the new Q shape because it's easier to hit multiple people, but I find myself hit more people and higher burst with the old circle Q.
About her passive, it's in a weird spot to me, sometimes I find it helpful, and sometimes not at all because some seeds just place in the back and I never get to use them at all, and most of the teamfight, they don't spawn fast enough to do anything.
If I could make some adjustments, I would :
- Increase Zyra's Q range a bit and higher base damage early game but also increase its mana cost.
- Shift some power of her plants back to her abilities, maybe cut down the maximum seed can be plant from 8 to 5.
- Increase passive seeds cooldown, but lower her W cooldown, so Zyra can control her seeds more often.
- Passive seeds plant to the nearest enemy champions.
It's just my suggestions, you guys can disagree and I can understand. I just got to let it out lol. Sorry for bad English btw.