Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-98.65.173.174-20121230181722/@comment-69.59.86.65-20130323200515

Anyone who recommends building something besides Liandry's on Zyra has obviously never built one on her. Zyra's plants proc Liandry's allowing her to burst even tanks from from 50-0 if even and tanks from 75-0 if fed, her melee plants slow allowing them to automatically apply the double damage proc. For mana issues and CDR morellonomicon is the goto item. Starting item (for mid lane) should be faerie charm, and whatever combination of ward/pots you like. First item is kages, followed by haunting guise for lane dominance or sorc shoes for roaming then finish the other pen item(shoes if you got guise, guise if you got shoes). If you have blue control you can rush liandry's if not go ahead straight for morellonomicon.

If you are being bursted too quickly you can buy a giants belt for the rylais you will eventually be building however I find this is more related to playstyle. Remember your role is to land bind, drop your plants, then run BACK OUT. POP back into the fight as your Q comes off of CD, if you are dying you are probably just playing poorly or being focused. Being focused on zyra is actually okay...just make sure to get your combo off on 3+ people and land your passive.

Core Build is Sorc shoes, Liandry's, morellonomicon, Rylais...Finishing items would be abyssal/zhonya's (team dependant) and personal preferance. You already have a TON of magic pen so a void staff is pretty overkill unless everyone on their team is stacking negatrons....at which point it is GG anyways since your ADC is going to kill them all

For the Athenes VS Morellonomicon. Athenes does give more mana true...However Morello's costs less gold (600 less) builds out of a gp10, has the same CDR, offers the healing reduction that WILL help you kill people like voli/singed/ADC's and the mana should be a null issue since you have blue buff and should be backing often anyways. Buy some blue pots if you find yourself out of mana all the time.

Harass by putting ranged plants just behind the caster minions...they will often auto attack your opponent and hit harder then you expect.

ROAM. Landing a bind with melee plants is almost a 100% kill or flash if the lane can follow up. Make sure to ping BEFORE go to their lane and BEFORE you actually go in.

Due to the way jungle aggro works you can use your plants to tank dragon. This is good and bad, if you have a high damage jungle put your plants close to dragon to tank for him...tanky jungler? put them further away to maximize your damage