Talk:Zyra/@comment-87.11.19.40-20120731063357/@comment-24.246.78.135-20120801163805

Are you comparing Swain's Nevermove to Zyra's root? That makes absolutely no sense. The delay on Nevermove is noticeably more than the delay of Zyra's root (relatively fast travel speed compared to other skillshots) unless you are talking about how long Zyra's root takes to reach someone at max range, which is unnecessary in most situations. The travel speed of Zyra's snare is around that same of Ezreal's Essence Flux--that is to say, pretty fast for a multitarget skillshot. If you compare her root to other snare abilities by mages, such as Morgana's Dark Binding, and Lux's Light Binding, Morgana's does more damage and snares for a longer duration, but is noticeably slower and easier to dodge, not to mention it only hits one target. Lux's snare, on the other hand, does slightly more damage to the first person, and snares the first target for a slightly longer duration, but beyond the first target Zyra's performs better in both categories (and Lux's hits a maximum of 2 units). Finally, while her damage does not seem high when comparing the abilities themselves directly to those of other champions, I think you are forgetting about her plants, which is a reliable source of damage, and does about half of her overall damage in a teamfight. Don't forget, one of the reasons the snare is so strong on Zyra especially is because it keeps the enemies within range of her plants, which do tons of damage (at level 18 with about 400-500 AP, 2 of her plants do 400-500 magic damage per attack, which is sped up by her ult). While her other abilities are arguably avoidable, to get to her you still need to take huge amounts of damage from her plants.