I am not even a ranked player and I just started to play Zyra Bot support. I really enjoy playing her and have a very long journey before I master her. I do not understand what this upcoming nerf will do to her. Can you please explain it in a way i would understand, thank you.
NOTE THIS IS FROM THE PBE FORUMS, IDK if things have been changed or not since this was posted
Zyra Summary: Deadly Bloom's damage has been reduced but her AP ratio has been increased. Rampant Growth's passive cooldown reduction and range have been increased. The plants spawned from Rampant Growth have had their base damage reduced, but their base damage at later levels has been increased. We've also improved Zyra's overall useability with enraging plants / transforming seeds into plants by spells. Context: Our overall strategy here was to tone down Zyra's early level poke damage and, while we are reducing some of her overall power, we also wanted to improve her ability to fluidly combo cast with seeds. Additionally, reducing the base damage of her spells while increasing the AP ratios are aimed at reducing her power as a support without hurting her capabilities as a mage.
Deadly Bloom
- Range minorly reduced
- Damage reduced
- AP ratio increased
Rampant Growth
- Passive cooldown reduced
- Plant base damage reduced at lower levels and increased at higher levels
- Reduced the delay before seeds can be stepped on by enemies
- Range minorly increased
- Fixed a bug where seeds would very sometimes not be turned into plants by spells
Stranglethorns
- Stun no longer persists for some duration after the knockup ends.
- Now properly enrages plants created within the bramble zone after Stranglethorns has been cast
so basically they are toning down her early flat damage on her Q but increase the damage later on in terms of the AP ratio. Cooldown from W is lowered and plants do less damage at earlier levels.
So pretty much she won't hurt as much as she currently does at the early part of the game but towards the later game she gets a bit more damage than currently. So she will probably still be a good support, just don't expect to do big damage at the start with only a couple hits.