Time for a Zyra Buff

On OP.gg Zyra currently has 45.51% winrate [statistics for all elo's]. While on Champion.gg she has 50.41% winrate [in plat+]. These are very disturbing numbers for a champion that has nature a high winrate in lower mmr because of her earlygame strengths. And it again shows how weak Zyra really is in the lategame.

Offcourse their are some reasons why her winrate is so low right now:

• Zyra utility has consistently been nerfed over the years. And every time a nerf or adjust hit live she's becames more & more depended on her raw damage output.
• The meta has been shifting again to lategame. With games that last 90 minutes she doesn't really stand a chance.
• With the release of the it's much more difficult for Zyra to take her snowballing to the next level. It's harder to dive 2v2 with the hourglass active while it's more difficult to counter when you get dived yourself.
• The meta is also very camp bot centrical again with picks like . I had a game with these 4 on the enemy team. You ain't going to get a snowball running where you finish the game on 20 minutes.

But that are not her only problems. One thing in particular she struggles with is the risk of taking runes:

We all known how strong Scorch can be. But for Zyra it has always been a gamble. Like mentioned in the first point. Zyra is very depended on damage. If she doesn't get a snowball running in the first 5 minutes she already get's outscaled in the midgame compaired when she takes Gathering Storm. Not many Zyra player figured this out yet. But right now it's just better to run Gathering Storm & Absolute Focus together. Absolute Focus provides you with 5-40 ability power when above 70% of your max health. This is very usefull since you are focussing on getting your magic penetration first. The extra ability power is also better for your ult burst. It's basicly a route you can take that provides similar benefits to your early game but without the drawbacks in the mid & lategame.

So everything is involved arround damage now. And that's a really strange design perfective for a support. I still remember the time when was the item you would rush in your games and not so you every Zyra rushing now. When did we replace utility with damage. It just doesn't make sence add all for her.

I would like to see her running more utility gain.

#Suggestion

• New Extra Passive: Your abilities will mark enemy champions. This mark consumes & amplifies the next slow by x1.5. Targets can only recieve one mark every 5 seconds. (example Rylai's now slows for 30% for 1 second, Ekko's Timewinder slows for 90% etc...). Slow that extends 99.99..% become a root. (animation of thorns like Zyra E).

This change would help in crucial situations and further promote her as a catcher. We all known that feeling when whe catch an enemy by landing QW combo just in range for them to recieve the . I want to provide this feeling even before that by an passive like this. You would now be able to build her into two different directions. One build with where she plays like normal but now with a stronger slow. And a build without it where she uses the mark to make ally slows stronger.

Thoughts?