I'm beyond frustrated with the lack of attention Zyra gets from RIOT

TTV MandiRAWR·9/11/2019, 3:49:28 PM·14 votes·8,683 views

She has like 3 skins, no emotes, no skin chromas, old outdated textures.

I think she has the capability of having an amazing skin, but RIOT wants nothing to do with her, as they mentioned on twitter that it's too time consuming to make a skin for her. This is extremely frustrating for me, someone who mains Zyra. Believe it or not, there are tons of other Zyra mains, like myself, that would pay $$$ for a good skin.

And please, save the "WhAt AbOuT tHiS cHaMp" responses, I'm not talking about other champions, I'm talking about Zyra.

18 Comments

AIQ9/11/2019, 4:40:41 PM6 votes

You don't like Dragon Zyra? I thought that was a top tier 1350 Skin.

Zyra also just got a new walk/death animation not too long ago.

She certainly needs some more love, but she is certainly on of the closest to being balanced as a support. The META does not favor her, but she still is looming waiting to strike. If Damage dies down a bit, Zyra will be S+ tier again. Some DS Chromas would be nice though or maybe Coven Zyra?

Diävolo9/11/2019, 5:24:24 PM4 votes

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EdgeLady9/11/2019, 5:23:35 PM3 votes

Zyra is basically the namesake of champions who are hard to make skins for. In order to make an epic skin, which is the lowest tier of skin considered good quality these days, there has to be a lot of remodeling effort on all of her abilities. That's why she gets skins so rarely even though she's popular.

Now emotes on the other hand...well, I think that she could use a few. There could be some pretty nice plant puns with them too.

But she's pretty solidified in lore, with a full bio, a color story, and a longer story that highlights her far-reaching abilities across the jungles. The one thing she could use is a general explanation of her species, as the concept of the plant spirits in Runeterra is very ambiguous and diverse in all three of the current incarnations we see (her, Ivern/the God Willow, and Maokai). I suppose it's a reflection or an extension of their respective environments? The thing is, that confuses things a bit more since we don't know how Maokai could have reflected the Blessed Isles before the curse, because we have no idea what they were like (yet, at least; we might know soon if the next champion is indeed from Helia).

But I wouldn't say she's in a terrible spot regarding how much attention she gets. She just has an unfortunate ability set when it comes to skins. Champions with entirely particle effect abilities like Garen, Ahri, Ezreal, you name it, they'll always get more skins than champions with model effect abilities like her. It's simple, yet sad, cost-effectiveness.

elfmage9/11/2019, 9:38:32 PM3 votes

Honestly as a Zyra main I'd just love chromas for the base skin to go with the 4 seasons.

Jimmy Rustles9/11/2019, 3:56:06 PM3 votes

Yea but sadly for riot it's either

A - Sink the time and resources into a Zyra skin that will be 1350 minimum sue to the effort

Or

B - Make another 975 tier skin for Ahri or Kaisa but sell them for 1350 and make 10x the money they would from the Zyra one

bewarefeeding9/11/2019, 5:45:28 PM2 votes

Zyra is cancer

Don Lupus9/13/2019, 5:53:33 AM1 votes

The "it's hard to make skins for her as it requires so much remodeling on all of her abilities" is really not working anymore when they put so much more effort than necessary in basically EVERY other skin they release at the moment.

Charmy Bird9/11/2019, 8:31:08 PM1 votes

bruh at least she has 3 skins my boi ornn has no skin lmao apart from the one he got from release

FourWardHorizon9/11/2019, 9:13:12 PM1 votes

Logged in just to upvote this. I'm also a Zyra main,(M7, 100k+ points) and even though I love all of her skins, I strongly agree that she deserves SOMETHING. It's been far too long and plants die without enough attention. 🐸☕

Chembaron Yamada9/11/2019, 10:50:17 PM1 votes

I think her Dragon Sorceress skin already is fairly amazing, tbh.

But yeah, she is one of the champions which get neglected because of the workload needed to create skins for them. Feel the same about Zac, but unfortunately we can't help it. Riot has to make business decisions and when they have the choice between making a skin for Zyra or making a skin for another champion who requires less work and will probably sell better, then the outcome is pretty obvvious.

King Braum9/12/2019, 12:01:56 AM1 votes

Im still really dissapointed in Wildfire Zyra.

Really cool looking splashart and then just a splat of orange in game.

Ascended Azir9/12/2019, 1:40:20 AM1 votes

I don't disagree with you, but there are a ton more champions that have seen much less support than Zyra.