Zyra main discussing what I would like to stay on Zyra and what not.

Hi, my in-game name is vermouthblanc (you can probably guess who my other main is). I play Zyra for about 2 years now and I'd like to give my opinion on her current state in the game and how I feel the rework should look like. I would like to take this moment and tell you guys though, that this is my opinion. Feel free to disagree!

Zyra is a great champion, because she does everything moderately well. She has enormous burst damage, crazy sustained damage, solid cc, moderate range, pretty low cooldowns (her Q especially!), nice waveclear and good poke. The two things she is absolutely horrible at are her passive and her atrocious mobility. That said, I like Zyra being immobile, she has defined weaknesses and strenghts.

Currently, Zyra is at the best state she has been in a long time now. Her good base damages make her a decent damage dealers without much ap and ap items cost lots right now. Thunderlords and Deathfire Touch add a lot of damage to her kit and she has great snowball potential. If there is one thing I'd like Zyra to always have is that she can both burst hard and do high sustained damage. This is arguably what Zyra is all about for me. With recent reworks, Riot has focused on giving assasins, mages more identity than just burst and run. Gragas rework was centered around this, Kassadin too has less damage on his ult, Ahri has been changed from a dfg assasin to a kite-mage with rather mediocore damage compared to other mages. Please don't change Zyra solely into a plant mage, let her burst damage stay. There is no other champion that distinctly does both forms of damage such as Zyra, and I'd like her to stay that way. She should continue to chunk hard and whittle people down at the same time.

However if there is one thing I'd change about her, it is her goddamn passive. It is just awful. Instead of having a passive that is super clunky, delayed and does meh damage, let her have a passive that gives her utility. For example: Whenever Zyras plants kill a unit, they live longer. This of course is reduced with neutral monsters and minions, but with champions they'd live longer for 1-6 seconds based on level or something. Again, this is just what I feel like would fit on her.

I would also change her vine lashers, the plants that spawn with your E. These plants are focused on slowing people. But once you have rialys, both type of plants slow for the same amount. There is no diversity in what plant she wants to use. Give her vine lashers a special type of cc, like crippling, or attack speed slows.

Other than that, I honestly feel Zyra is in a decent spot.

Thanks, for reading. =)