Arcane Comet allows Zyra to have stronger laning presence, and is a reliable source of extra poke with all your abilities. It's easy to proc, try to poke when it's off CD and use it with Grasping Roots as you'll be sure it will hit.

Zyra's mana costs can ramp up quickly. Manaflow Band helps negate running out of mana in laning phase as fast, and grants passive mana regen when you reach the 250 threshold.

Absolute Focus is very good for Zyra, she stays at range using her abilities and plants to poke the enemies - staying safe from damage, and this rune increases her damage output as long as she stays above 70% HP. You can take Transcendence if you don't think you can sustain higher HP, giving you an extra 10% CDR at level 10 and converting extra CDR into AP.

As we know, the main reason for choosing Zyra is her high damage output in lane, and Scorch is used for early game, laning harass. It adds extra damage on your first ability used, and then again after the 10s cooldown.

Perfect Timing provides you with a free stopwatch after 10 minutes, which can be used to build a Zhonya's Hourglass, saving you 600g and enabling you to complete one of Zyra's core items quicker - as well as giving you the extra stasis effect one time before you complete your Zhonya's Hourglass.

Biscuit Delivery is a great rune for sustain. It restores 10% of your missing health and mana, and increases your maximum mana by 50 anytime you consume or sell a biscuit. This is a great rune if you are facing a poke heavy opposition, and it also synergizes well with Manaflow Band.

Taste of Blood is very good sustain for Zyra, especially if you are going to be taking Absolute Focus - it heals you any time you damage an enemy - which should be often! - giving you extra sustain in lane, and it will proc during teamfights.

What synergizes with Taste of Blood and Absolute Focus the best? Ravenous Hunter! It heals you any time you do damage with your abilities, increasing with every bounty hunter stack you have - which you gain for every first takedown on an enemy. You should easily be able to stack this as you want to be getting early kills.

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Sorcerer's Shoes > DAMAGE Zyra focuses on damage, and the +18 magic penetration is going to increase her damage output and burst exponentially. These are the best boots to take on Zyra. Mercury's Treads > MR/TENACITY If the enemy team has a lot of CC, or a lot of AP damage, you can trade Sorcerer's Shoes out for these. They offer +25 magic resist, along with reducing the effect of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes by 30%. Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED These are the cheapest boots in the game, but can be the most useful - especially if you do plan on roaming the map. They're the best pick up if you're behind, or you're going to be concentrating on roaming, or peeling.

Liandry's Torment > DAMAGE/SURVIVABILITY In terms of damage output, Liandry's Torment is the best item on Zyra. She uses her plants to deal damage, which will melt the enemies health, especially if they're a tanky team with lots of HP - as they take 1.5% of their maximum health in damage, up to 2.5% if movement impaired - which is core to Zyra's kit.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter > DAMAGE/UTILITY/SURVIVABILITY Rylai's Crystal Scepter slows enemies by 20% for 1 second, giving them less chance to escape from your burst. Your plants autos also slow the enemy, along with the Vine Lasher - who slows the enemy with it's autos already. Rylai's Crystal Scepter will increase your burst damage, along with increasing your survivability due to the +300 HP it provides.

Morellonomicon > DAMAGE/UTILITY/SURVIVABILITY While increasing your overall damage output and magic penetration, and increasing your survivability with an extra 300 HP, Morellonomicon is a brilliant pick up if the enemy team has healers such as Sona, Soraka or enemies like Vladimir, or a Draven with Bloodthirster. Morellonomicon inflicts grievous wounds, reducing their healing on themselves and others by 40% for 3s.

Zhonya's Hourglass > UTILITY/SURVIVABILITY/DAMAGE If the enemy team has a lot of burst damage threats, you can take Zhonya's Hourglass to keep yourself alive longer, or negate damage spells such as Zed's Death Mark or Ignite. Zhonya's Hourglass is generally a core item on Zyra as she is squishy, and she takes Perfect Timing already. It can spell the difference between living or dying, you also gain a nice chunk of AP for your burst damage, 45 armor and CDR.

Luden's Echo > DAMAGE/SUSTAIN/CDR Luden's Tempest provides a nice amount of AoE burst damage, which applies spell effects - such as Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Morellonomicon's effects - along with 600 extra mana, which helps with wave clear, and spamming abilities in teamfights.

Twin Shadows > UTILITY/DAMAGE A great item to help you chase down enemies faster with the slow, up to 40% - synergizing with your Vine Lasher and Rylai's Crystal Scepter - or if you want vision of where enemies could be, helps you not to face check brushes or while taking objectives. You gain 70 AP, adding onto your high burst damage, 10% CDR and extra movement speed.

Banshee's Veil > UTILITY/DMAGAGE/SUSTAIN Banshee's Veil offers protection from long range engage, such as Malphite or Blitzcrank, that Zhonya's Hourglass cannot - if you're cc chained, you can't activate it! You gain 60 magic resist, so a good pick up vs heavy AP teams such as Fizz and LeBlanc.

Void Staff > DAMAGE If your team is AP heavy, the enemy team is most likely going to start stacking MR - Void Staff negate's 40% of their magic resist, which then applies magic penetration, making this a very strong item vs MR.

You'll most likely want to start with Deadly Spines, due to the Thorn Spitters it spawns. It's very strong harass in lane if you can hit it on a seed.

Before laning phase, if you will be leashing your jungler, you will want to stand around their buff - outside of brushes! -, to spawn nearby seeds. Once the buff has spawned, you can use Deadly Spines to grow your Thorn Spitters, which helps leash your jungler, and they will also tank the buff.

You'll want to utilize your Deadly Spines in lane, safely harassing the enemy ADC from range, when they go for last hits on minions. Use Grasping Roots to root the ADC or support (or both if they're stood together) for a lot of damage, guarantee to hit your Arcane Comet, and spawning Vine Lasher's - slowing the enemies. Hopefully resulting in a Flash burn, or a kill, at best, two!

You can cast your Deadly Spines and Grasping Roots, and as they are casting, plant a seed where they will target, catching your enemy off guard - as generally they will know you're going to cast your abilities over your readily spawned seeds.

You have a very high burst combo at level 6, if you land a root or if your ADC has a CC they've landed, or your jungler comes to gank. Use your Stranglethorns, Deadly Spines and Ignite - bonus damage if you get to buff your plants with Stranglethorns - you'll get easy kills.

Make sure to ward the brushes nearby your lane, and you can roam to midlane to set up an easy gank with Grasping Roots if your ADC has backed. Use your plants to help tank the drake - they can take 2 attacks before they die.

You can actually solo Rift Herald with your plants, keeping them being the ones to tank her, while you maneuver around to attack the eye. You ideally will want to have finished your Liandry's Torment prior, and make sure you have good vision around the pit, you don't want to accidentally leash for the enemy!


During the mid - late game teamfights and skirmishes, you will be trying to lock down multiple enemies with your Grasping Roots, while deadly high amounts of damage with your Thorn Spitters, along with the burn from Liandry's Torment. You can use your Stranglethorns to knock up enemies, enabling a Last Breath from an ally Yasuo, buffing any of your plants, or zoning out the enemy from important objectives such as Baron Nashor.

When you've exhausted your damage combo, you can focus on peeling your ADC with Grasping Roots, or slowing the enemy down from engaging - or escaping - with your Vine Lashers, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter slow.

When you're roaming, you can spawn your plants in specific places for vision, like the drake pits, or where you know you will benefit from the true sight of enemies as they destroy them.

You can proc an enemies Banshee's Veil with one plant auto attack, use this to your advantage, making them easier to CC and be bursted down.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats. Remember, you're also a very high damage threat, and very squishy! Utilize your Zhonya's Hourglass at critical times to survive burst damage, especially if they have a blue Kayn or a Zed.

You'll want to be sticking close to your ADC, while roaming efficiently and safely as possible to place deep wards.

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision.

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