Zyra Build Guide by Cancerqt

Greetings Summoner

Welcome to my Zyra build.

This is my first guide on my favorite champion in the league of legends. She is a fairly new champion that was released on July 24, 2012.

The reason Zyra is my favorite champion is for the reasons that will be detailed below for example her poke, CC, high burst, 30sec vision, and amazing synergy with other champions with high AoE, snares, and stuns.

Since this is my only guide i will check and update this guide accordingly with upcoming patches and nerfs.

Feel Free to comment and let me know what changes you feel i should make and i will look it over and test it multiple times to see the outcome.

Pros / Cons

Pros [+] Fun to play [+] High Burst [+] Great CC [+] Team Comp synergy

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Cons [-] Weak vs Gap closer [-] Squishy [-] Build expensive [-] Movement

Skill Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

- When you are killed zyra's passive turns Zyra into her plant form which allows her to fire a projectile skill shot. The thorn deals 99 + (25 × level) true damage to each enemy hit by it. The form lasts 8 seconds and has an estimated range of 1,500. Personally i find this passive to be very useful in securing a kill.

Be careful of spamming abilities before death. While Zyra is transitioning into her plant form and you're spamming your abilities to try to do damage before dieing her passive tends to go off immediately even when you don't want it to.

- Zyra shoots thorns from the ground, dealing 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+60% per ability power) magic damage to enemies within the area.

You want to use this in combo with your Grasping Roots and your Rampant Growth for poke and aggressiveness.
When Deadly Bloom comes into contact with Rampant Growth, a thorn spitter will appear for 10 seconds and deal 26 + (6 × level) + (20% per ability power) magic damage with an attack speed of 0.800.

- Zyra periodically stores seeds and she can hold up to 2 seeds at any given time. Zyra cannot plant any more than 4 seeds at a time. Extra plants striking the same target deal 25% less damage.

When Deadly Bloom comes into contact with Rampant Growth, a thorn spitter will appear for 10 seconds and deal 26 + (6 × level) + (20% per ability power) magic damage with an attack speed of 0.800.
When Grasping Roots comes into contact with Rampant Growth, a Vine lasher will appear for 10 seconds and deal 26 + (6 × level) + (20% per ability power) magic damage with an attack speed of 0.800.

- Zyra Sends a wave of vines dealing 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+50% per ability power) magic damage and rooting all enemies it comes into contact with for for 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 seconds.

I use this ability to start an aggressive attack on enemy players if they are successfully rooted.
When Grasping Roots comes into contact with Rampant Growth, a Vine lasher will appear for 10 seconds and deal 26 + (6 × level) + (20% per ability power) magic damage with an attack speed of 0.800.

- Zyra grows a twisted thicket at the targeted location, dealing 180 / 265 / 350 (70% per ability power) and knocking the enemy champions up after 2 seconds. In addition any Vine Lasher or Thorn Spitter in the area of the Stranglethorns effect will be granted an extra 50% attack speed.

Items

Item Sequence
Boots of Speed 350	Health Potion 35	Health Potion 35	Mana Potion 35	Doran's Ring 475	Doran's Ring 475	Sorcerer's Shoes 1100	Needlessly Large Rod 1600
Zhonya's Hourglass 3410	Needlessly Large Rod 1600	Blasting Wand 860	Rabadon's Deathcap 3300	Rod of Ages 2800	Giant's Belt 1000	Rylai's Crystal Scepter 2900	Void Staff 2295

Boots of Speed, Health Potionx2, and Mana Potion is my standard opener. i choose boots 3 pots to easily dodge the enemies skill shot and potential early ganks. The 2 health pots also help with the enemy poking you and for any avoided ganks. As for the mana pot this will help keep sustain in your lane without backing while be able to harass.

The Doran's Ringx2 gives you an additional sustain after backing allowing for even more harass with a bit more mana regen and a fairly decent health increase. With the 2 Doran's Ring your looking at a 160hp 30ap 10MP5 at this point you should be able to harass with no mana issue.

Sorcerer's Shoes are Pretty standard AP boots. However i find using Mercury's Treads to be useful against veigar's.

After i have my 3 core early/mid game items i'm looking at how my laning opponent is build or playing. For example in ranked the player's are fairly decent and are about evenly matched i tend to work for my Zhonya's Hourglass first so i can engage in team fights while being safe knowing i have ZHG if the enemy focuses me or i get caught out of position. On the other hand if i'm getting great ganks and i'm well ahead in my lane i tend to work toward a Rabadon's Deathcap then Zhonya's Hourglass after. Personally my positioning is good and i find that ZHG and Rabadon's pointy hat is better than having a Rod of Ages.

That being said after i have ZHG and RDC i work on getting my Rylai's Crystal Scepter starting with the Giant's Belt then coming back later to fully buy it. If your someone who feels Rod of Ages is better to get early then by all means u can get it after ZHG or RDC or even before both. It really depends on your play style.

Here is were things can be very situational. From here you should just about have your boots, ZHG, RDC, 1 ring and (RCS or RoA). Here we look at the enemy team. We should start to see Magic resist being a common thing on the enemies' build so personally i would go void staff but abyssal scepter is also good for now before they nerf the range of it. and the final item of choice i'd go with for bursty opponents is Banshee's Veil. I see alot of other people working with Deathfire Grasp or just having a set that looks like boots,ZHG,RDC,RCS,RoA, and VS, which is also a great and mostly optimal build for sustain, damage, and survivability. But as i said its mostly up to your play style, team composition, and even the opponents' build.

Farming

When farming early as zyra it pretty simple. Like all champions there are ways to farm aggressively and defensively.
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Aggressive - I push my lane using Deadly Bloom and creating thorn spitters so i can apply pressure to my lane opponent's turret and help my team ganking.

Defensive - This is usually if i had recently been ganked or i am waiting for my jungler to gank mid, I use my thorn spitters to farm for me along with the damage from Deadly Bloom sometimes if the opposing champion is in there with my creep i throw in some Grasping Roots causing seeds to turn into vine lashers which in turn slow champions by 30% when they attack.

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Credits

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