How does everyone feel about the Zyra rework?

TheUltimateSpear·9/10/2016, 5:53:54 PM·3 votes·712 views

I don't really like the reworked Zyra. The RNG passive is reductive and unnecessary with her W imo, and it takes away so much power from Zyra and puts it into luck. When the reworked Zyra hit live, her playrate went up a lot and her winrate went up a little. However, for people who were experienced Zyra players, their winrate on her actually went down, especially after she got the nerfs. The new passive makes her easier to play, since now you can just spawn plants by throwing your abilities around the now plentiful amount of seeds. But at what cost? Her plants base damage and ratio, her Q's base damage and ratio, were taken down. Zyra was made easier to play, but the rework reduced her power when played at maximum potential.

And that's just bad design IMO. They made Zyra more accessible, but I don't think that's a good thing. The fact that you had to manage your seeds because you only had 2 at most at a time and they had a long cooldown. The difficulty in managing seeds when I played Zyra was part of what made her fun, the difficulty it took to use Zyra made her more worthwhile to master. But now, you just spawn plants wherever you can manage to, it doesn't require you to think as much to play as her.

And what's the point of pouring time into a champ if you can milk the maximum efficiency out of them with minimum effort?

That's just me though. I'd love to hear others thoughts in the comments.

2 Comments

Handy Sandy 9/10/2016, 5:55:42 PM3 votes

It gives her more control of the lane (since she's a zone control mage) while also giving her 2 seeds to use offensively.

Weathered9/10/2016, 5:54:47 PM1 votes

I like it with the exception of her passive, which you mentioned, and her amount of damage. I still feel like she is able to do a lot of damage for a normally CC teamfight champion.