[Rework Concept] Zyra, the Rising Thorns

SSmotzer·3/2/2020, 7:21:07 PM·1 votes·2,433 views

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Passive - Cultivating Carnage: Moving and basic attacking generates Death Blooms stacks, up to 100.

  • Death Blooms: At 100 stacks of Death Blooms Zyra's next attack consume Death Blooms and marks her attack target with a Death Bud for a few seconds. When Zyra or her plants attack an enemy with a Death Bud, the Bud grows, after 6 attacks the Death Bud explodes, after a brief delay, dealing magic damage to the enemy with the Bud, and half as much damage to surrounding enemies. Each attack against an enemy with a Death Bud refreshes it's duration on the target.

  • Vengeful Thorn: If an enemy champion dies with a Death Bud attached to them their body is consumed by the Death Bud and it becomes a Vengeful Thorn, which lingers for 8 seconds, is untargetable, acts as terrain, and fires a single massive thorn towards the nearest enemy, prioritizing low health enemy champions, dealing magic damage in a line. If the Vengeful Thorn kills an enemy champion, they will also be consumed and become a Vengeful Thorn.

Q - Cultivating Carnage - Passive: Zyra stores a charge of Deadly Spines periodically, one for each level of this ability.

  • Deadly Spines - Zyra consumes all of the charges of Deadly Spines and sprouts thorny spines at the target location that appear after a brief delay, dealing magic damage to all enemies they hit. The size and damage is increased by the amount of charges consumed. Consuming 5 charges will cause a wall thorns to spawn, equal in size to the size of a single charge of Deadly Spines. Enemy champions can walk through the thorns, but they are slowed, grounded and dealt damage over time while in the wall of thorns.

  • Thorn Spitter: If Deadly Spines hits a Seed, it sprouts into a Thorn Spitter, which remains on the battlefield for 8 seconds.

W - Garden of Thorns - Passive: Zyra periodically stores a Seed, up to 3. Unit kills grant 20% charge toward a Seed, increased to 100% for large units killed and enemy champion takedowns. Every third stack automatically consumes that stack and spawns one, two at max level, Seeds nearby, which last for 30 seconds, briefly granting sight over the surrounding area. Zyra can have 8 Seeds active at once.

  • Rampant Growth - Active: Zyra plants a Seed at the target location, which lasts for 60 seconds.

E - Cultivating Carnage - Passive: Zyra stores a charge of Grasping Roots periodically, one for each level of this ability.

  • Grasping Roots - Active: Zyra consumes all of the charges of Grasping Roots and sends a surge of vines in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit and rooting them for a short duration, the amount of enemies the Roots can pass through before stopping is equal to the charges of Grasping Roots consumed. Consuming all 5 stacks will cause Death Blooms to appear on all enemies rooted.

  • Vine Lasher: If Grasping Roots hits a Seed, it sprouts into a Vine Lasher, which remains on the battlefield for 8 seconds.

R - Stranglethorns: Zyra targets an area and then becomes untargetable for 2 seconds as she is pulled into the Earth. A thicket of vines fills the target area, dealing magic damage to all enemies in the area, and after 2 seconds Zyra erupts from the center of the thickets, knocking up all enemies around her, and transforming all active plants into Vengeful Thorns.

  • Death Willow: Zyra becomes the Death Willow for 8. Zyra's abilities gain their max stacks, and Zyra's basic attacks and spells gain bonus range. Zyra's basic attacks instead command her Vengeful Thorns to attack her target, attacking with 1 Vengeful Thorn at a time. Vengeful Thorns increase their thorn's range and missile speed. Zyra can attack once for each of her plants that became Vengeful Thorns. Once all the Vengeful Thorns have fired their thorns Zyra can fire 1 additional thorn from herself, which will end Death Willow prematurely. While the Death Willow Zyra gains bonus damage resistance and acts as terrain.

3 Comments

Arakadia3/3/2020, 5:02:56 AM1 votes

I'm gonna miss all the familiar names on this board like yours Ssmotzer.