Noob Question About A Zyra Build
So I'm trying to learn the game and the weekly rotation this week has Zyra. I heard from my more experienced friends that Zyra is a support/mage so i decided to learn some items and become familiar with them by attempting to make a build for her. I figured i'd learn by fooling around with items and learning what items exist. So i'm not going to post my build but i started with Doran's ring because i figured she supported with damage rather than heals or shields. I then went AP and used Rylai's Scepter and Zhonya's Hourglass because i figured i could play around my plants and stasis while the slow kept the enemies at bay. Then i played a game to test it out.
So after that colossal failure I looked up an actual guide to compare and see where i went wrong. Why does this guy go all magic penetration? Is this actually what i should do? He says her skills don't scale (Idk how that justifies Magic Penetration) so he uses magic penetration instead of AP because it somehow gives him more damage but why would he build static Magic Penetration if the enemy team isn't even guaranteed to use Magic Resistance? Am i just a noob who read the guide wrong? I'm so confused.
and then see what the team needs. The damage early from just eye and sorc boots is good enough and the peel you can provide from plants with rylais is underestimated. you dont need liandrys right away and getting it a bit later will keep your damage on par against tanks and squishies.
Grabbing abyssal after this is there are a lot of tanks help do damage to tanks and youll blow up squishies as well.
The reason Mpen is more important is because she is a dps mage who hits many times. Getting your damage to do true damage basically outputs a lot more damage than hitting a lot and just barely increasing the damage because of her low ratios.