Idea for Zyra's Passive

Nymeria··2 votes·187 views

I think Zyra's passive could be updated to make it slightly more consistent. I wouldn't want a change that was too strong, as I think her kit is in a good place. At the moment I think her passive is easily the EASIEST spell to dodge in the game (as long as you forget about her passive). It's almost at the point of uselessness. Yes, sometimes you can get a kill or 2 or 3, but that is pretty rare, especially when you are playing against people who are completely aware how easy it is to avoid. There is a delay on the shot (which also feels inconsistent, sometimes it feels abnormally long, maybe it's just me) which almost always allows any champ to flee out of the range before it's even casted. On top of that it shoots really slow and has a very small hitbox for something that isn't often enough rewarding.

There are a serveral ways you could make it more consistent:

  1. Make the range on the passive longer

  2. Have the passive shoot faster/with a shorter delay.

  3. This one is kinda out there, but I think it's a cool idea: if she dies with her plants up they remain alive for few bonus seconds longer than they normally would (this includes leaving the current passive as is)

Would love to hear some feedback!

3 Comments

SSShutTheDuckUp1 votes

I just left some topic about that, more joky than serious, though: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/PikEXtTZ-some-not-exactly-serious-suggestions-about-zyra

Well, if I have to serious - Zyra needs completely different passive. She is some mix of a burst/control/cc mage, her job is to keep enemies away, so she is not supposed to get a reward when failing to do that. Out of all "revenge" passive her is the worst. Sion is beefy frontline, supposed to take all the dmg, in order to protect his carries. Anivia is low-mobile, so her passive helps her to have a chance, if she dies on the "correct" spot and so on. They make sense, but Zyra 's passive don't, cause all it provides is unreliable clunky nuke, which can be only useful if you fail you position really hard.

Nymeria2 votes

I am not opposed to a completely new passive, but I am worried doing this would make her TOO strong. That's why I was thinking of ways to add more consistency to her passive so that it can be slightly more rewarding for a mage.

SSShutTheDuckUp1 votes

As i said - my suggestion was more joky than real, it was just a thought, that would kinda fit in her theme. and the main problem with Zyra 's passive is not how clunky it is. Sure, it is very clunky and this is a problem. Even if it weren't - it still would not make sense. Then it would be similar to KogMaw - though being somehowt reliable (compared to Zyra ) it is still bad and does not make sense

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