Not sure about the Zyra rework..

misfortunas·5/4/2016, 6:33:37 PM·5 votes·1,337 views

Her Q damage was nerfed by a noticable amount, it hurts her laning phase. Her plants feel very weak in earlier stages of the game, they are squishier, deal less damage and the duration of them being alive is super low compared to how long Zyra's plants could be kept alive pre rework. All this for a passive that is unreliable. To sum the Zyra rework up to you: Quantity over Quality. Your plants aren't that strong, but you can cast so many of them, that your overall damage is increased. But to then reduce her burst and her individual plant damage, health and duration is odd. To me, it is a lame gimmick and isn't fun. A small increase in her Q damage would be appreciated.. Any thoughts?

8 Comments

Mirage Night5/5/2016, 7:36:22 AM2 votes

I had a really terrible 1st game with her mid. Couldn't land skill shots, couldn't hit q.

However, she is going to be OP. I am calling it now. I won lane just simply hitting up the numerous seeds I had out. Simply hitting 1 root crushed the shit out of my lane opponent, who btw was a zed.

I just need to get better playing her.

Surisack5/5/2016, 7:33:23 AM2 votes

Zyra is no longer meant for mid lane.. makes me sad as I used to main her when she was actually good. A very unreliable passive (50% of the time they spawn within the lane, the other 50% they go off to the side somewhere) and her Q damage is nerfed into the ground, to the point that it can't even one shot the caster minions.. even late game! Her plants don't do enough poke damage, unless you have 3 or more there. They are also really squishy. Of the 6 mage changes, Zyra's is probably the worst..

A Liberal5/4/2016, 6:58:27 PM1 votes

I like the rework but... Why keep her w? I mean I get sometimes you want a seed right there right now, but idk... It just feels weird to have two sources of seeds

MrLlamaWaffle5/4/2016, 7:01:56 PM1 votes

play her as support. She's fantastic right now, guys.

Fovere5/4/2016, 7:38:20 PM1 votes

They had the rng from illaoi and wanted to use it

Shadowteen205/4/2016, 6:37:08 PM1 votes

She is more of a poke support, her utility is not supposed to have a lot of massive dmg in a lategame team fight.

chaoscommencer5/6/2016, 2:26:30 AM1 votes

These changes have definitely been a huge nerf to Zyra. Check out the Discussion here which enumerates all the nerfs that came with these changes: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/1G1j1nFv-zyra-changes-patch-69-huge-nerf-why

Lord Sessshomaru5/4/2016, 6:52:20 PM1 votes

The passive is really lame. The q is nerfed, and the fact that they can just walk over the passive seeds is bad. What was the point of this, she is basically unplayable. They should have just made the w better with a higher rate of seeds, increased the radius of the Q, tweeked the R a bit...maybe make it so you could target a character with it or the ground? Give her something good on the passive, and I don't mean reducing the scaling of the plants, or reducing the time you even get them. She was playable before, in need of some nice buffs...now I just see a 6300 or whatever price hero that is basically useless. Really, who makes these changes? Why does the game keep getting worse and worse and worse. This is the first season I really am thinking of quitting. If I don't play like a handful of 5 or 10 champs, and find a pre-made to roll with, this game isn't even worth playing anymore=( Why have 300 or so odd heroes when the meta is so strict. INCOMPETENCE.