Zyra has always been critiqued for looking like a sexy lady dressed up in leaves; she should have looked like a human-shaped plant-queen.
Elderwood LeBlanc really is an excellent execution on a non-human attractive lady character. If Zyra ever gets a model-update THAT is what she should be like!
Duke Anax27 votesTo be honest you could say Elderwood Leblanc simply looks like a sexy lady dressed up in leaves. Just the style of dress is a bit different. Both even have very simmilar bark like limbs.
A Superb Villain9 votesThe awkward boob-job annoys me. I don't care what kind of support a woman is wearing, breasts are not balloons. Elderwood Leblanc looks great, but that one detail sets the amateur artist in me screaming.
Ralanr2 votesI know it's supposed to be a dress, but considering it's a nature spirit I can't see it as such.
Effectively her and Zyra are naked in their eyes.
Celio Hogane HD2 voteswhat are you talking about, dude, Elderwood leblanc is made of ElderWOOD
VulcanIsHere6 votesWell she sure got me an ELDERWOOD ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
YCitizenSnipsY2 votesLe Blanc has got big tits that pop like that in like all of her splashes. Its not like this is something they just started doing with her. I get that its not your thing but i don' think its a fair critique, its a really nice splash . I mean to give you two example to follow my train of thought. Miss Fortune had huge tits n her old splash and it was still hideous. And Pharaoh Nidalee doesn't have a huge chest but can you really say that its a redeeming quality to an other wise poor splash.
You can like and not like what every you want, I'm not saying you should change your views. I just don't think that is a fair enough reason to dislike this particular work.
A Superb Villain2 votesI never said I disliked it, or that the overall work was poor. I only mentioned the chosen anatomical details bothered me.
YCitizenSnipsY2 votesEh I guess. I could see if it were something inconsistent, I just don't think its worth getting hung up on with a really well done splash.
333lom3 votes...And you got downvoted for criticizing the obvious flaw in the design.. League playerbase... I'm sorry I can give only one upvote.
A Superb Villain3 votesSome confuse criticism with insults, what's done is done.
And thank you.
GreenLore14 votesTo be fair,Zyra is obviously meant to somewhat look like poison ivy,who doesn't wear that much more.
ABlueQuaker5 votesAhri and Zyra are very similar in that their lore indicates that they wanted to become Human, and they ended up as Human as a Fox or Plant could get. She was never marketed as a living plant-champion.
GreenLore1 votesYeah and I think the more human-like aspect of zyra is also meant to differentiate her from maokai.
Ralanr14 votesZyra didn't want to be human, Zyra wanted to survive. A human host was the best way at the time.
Overlord Forte5 votesAs a point of clarification, Zyra ate the mage and then assumed a constructed form that she made. The mage itself was never overtaken in typical parasitism.
Ralanr2 votesReally? I always assumed the latter.
Overlord Forte6 votesThat was a fast reply, I blinked and I was like 'wait, what'. lol
"Using the woman's memories, Zyra poured her newfound magic into the creation of a human-shaped vessel."
The implication is that a whole new body was made, with the sorceress' knowledge as the template. If this were not the case, it would be more direct in saying she simply possessed the woman instead.
Ralanr1 votesAhh.
Also sorry, I just respond quickly sometimes.
Overlord Forte1 votesIt's fine, merely surprising.
Celio Hogane HD5 votesActually Ahri and Zyra lores are exactly the same, but Zyra is basically "i could use this thing, sounds usefull" and Ahri is "Oh shit yes i want to be human"
Ralanr1 votesThen she felt sadness after a few human deaths.
iamthegoatofwar2 votesAhri COULD become more human from what I understand but it would require her to kill more people which she doesn't wish to do.
The Last Ballad1 votesExcept murderers. She feels no guilt about that.
Overlord Forte7 votesUnfortunately, Elderwood LeBlanc is still the same problem as base Zyra, just with less caucasian/peach colored skin (?).
Something like this is more fitting to the alien, elf of the forest connotation: http://pre11.deviantart.net/8e6e/th/pre/f/2014/079/e/4/female_monster_redesigns_by_vegacolors-d5c3dn4.jpg
l Helios l2 votesThis
Fay S0ff2 votesMy god yes. That is the Zyra I want.
The Last Ballad1 votesI agree with the Zyra. But the Elise needs to be beautiful to lure people in, and that is anything but. It's awesome, but not siren-esk beauty. (Unless her lore was changed, then YEEEEESSSSSS)
Peridition4 votesI disagree.
EW Leblanc just looks like a human dressed up as a fairy.
Zyra at least has some non-human anatomy to here like her yellow eyes, or her four leaf ears.
Bladerunner77773 votesMorningwood Leblanc
delonix3 votesThey look pretty similar to me. I really can't tell what you are seeing in Elderwood LeBlanc.
ABlueQuaker2 votesYeah, but it was also something done 3 1/2 seasons (and thus 3 1/2 years) later. The game and its graphics were still fairly crude and rudimentary back in Season 2 - not to mention Riot clearly tunnelled more on the gameplay aspect of the character which they undeniably nailed.
GreenLore1 votes[{quoted}](name=A Blue Quaker,realm=OCE,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=J9tkdcRZ,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-03-02T09:21:48.231+0000)
not to mention Riot clearly tunnelled more on the gameplay aspect of the character which they undeniably nailed.
If they nailed that aspect so well,then why is she getting a rework this year?
ABlueQuaker1 votesI'm not saying her kit is without flaws, but the abilities themselves and how they interact are great and fulfil the archetype that Zyra fills. Her rework will be more about how her abilities work, not what they are.
Celio Hogane HD1 votesBecause the new champions, reworks, items and rules made Zyra become not the best choice.
GreenLore1 votesTo me some parts of Zyras kit always felt a bit off. I mean her passive is often seen as one of the worst passives in the game due to how extremely clunky it feels,her plants attack randomly and buffing them with her ult feels extremely situational and rarely useful.
Not to mention that it is a bit weird for a champ who should feel like she lets the surrounding bloom to have some instant plants who quickly wither after a few seconds.
ForgottenLuck2 votesI disagree with this post don't really see the difference in it, they look pretty identical, plus Zyra at the moment does not really need an update, neither for her splash or model
SithesisLord4 votesYes, she does, actually. Her texture is awful. The colors are too dead.
The green should be more intense and slightly darker. Her eyes should have her slit-shaped irises. Only the thorns are pink on the vines wrapped around her arm.
Overall, her ingame appearance is just a mess of inaccuracies and dead hues. It just makes her far too meh visually.
ForgottenLuck1 votesi don't really see it especially in comparison with other champions in need of it like WW, Kennen, Morgana, Urgot which I find should be take an more urgent matter, when I see her in game she does not seem clunky like them and is better in many other ways.
Celio Hogane HD2 votesCompare it to Sejuani, not WW. (Yes sejuani the champ that got the less deserved VU, i mean can't complain her old base skin sucks)
ForgottenLuck1 votesyeah but it has happen'd which i cant say much of it but Zyra could really wait for now
Mannysmoker1 votesHave you seen that thigh gap tho, holly molly.
IxtaliKing1 votesZyra should definitely have an elder wood skin, that much I'll say. They could even make a Legendary skin out of it for Zyra, would be amazing.
TheImpLord6 votesTbh although it would be nice she doesn't really need one. It would probably end up like spirit guard udyr were it looks like it should have been their base skin but now you have to pay for it.
IxtaliKing1 votesI guess that's a big possibility, but it would all depend on its execution.
Celio Hogane HD1 voteswhy people say that? Spirit Guard Udyr and regular Udyr don't look similar to be a new skin, Primal udyr feels could be the base skin, but Spirit Guard no.
Is like saying Pulsefire Ezreal should be his base skin, just because Ultimate skins are the most probable future in their lifes doesn't mean is a base skin, is Future Trunks the base trunks? no.
Celio Hogane HD1 votesBut zyra IS a "Woman in costume" literally she got a dead female corpose and say "Oh i could use that shit"
Von Revanchist1 votesWell zyra was a mage lady that wandered into komunjuu jungle and a plant took over her body sooo... I mean a lady with plants on her is on point.
OneDeadPixel1 votesZyra is a plant demon wearing a human corpse as a suit, not a plant that happens to be humanoid. Thematically, she is fine the way she is.
