Rise of the Thorns

Previous Lore

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"Closer to the flower, closer to the thorns." - Zyra

Longing to take control of her fate, the ancient, dying plant Zyra transferred her consciousness into a human body for a second chance at life. Centuries ago, she and her kind dominated the Kumungu Jungle, using thorns and vines to consume any animal that set foot in their territory. As the years passed, the animal population steadily died off. Food became increasingly scarce, and Zyra could only stand by helplessly as the last of her kin withered away. She thought she would perish alone, until the appearance of an unwary sorceress presented her with an opportunity for salvation.

It was the first time in years Zyra had sensed a creature wander so close. Hunger drew her to the sorceress, but some other, deeper instinct compelled her. She enveloped the woman in thorns with ease, but as she savored this final meal, foreign memories invaded her thoughts. She saw great jungles of metal and stone where humans and animals thrived. Potent magic surged through her vines, and she devised an elegant but risky plan to survive. Using the woman's memories, Zyra poured her newfound magic into the creation of a human-shaped vessel. She didn't know what sort of world awaited her, but she had nothing left to lose. When Zyra opened her eyes, she was overwhelmed by the raw power ready at her fingertips. It wasn't until she noticed the shriveled remains of the plant she once was that she realized how vulnerable she had become. If this body died, there would be no network of vines to retreat through, no roots to regrow her... but she felt truly alive. She beheld the world for the first time as animals did, and a dark smile crept across her lips. She was reborn, and there was so much now within her grasp.

Previous Abilities

Rise of the Thorns

Rise of the Thorns
RANGE:	70
SPEED:	1900

Innate: Upon taking fatal damage, Zyra returns to her plant form for up to 8 seconds. While in this state, Zyra becomes untargetable and all her learned abilities are replaced with Vengeful Thorn, which she can cast after 2 seconds of having transformed.

Active - Vengeful Thorn: Zyra fires a single piercing thorn in the target direction, dealing Template:Pp18 true damage to all enemies it passes through.

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Targeting input	Rise of the Thorns is an on-death effect. Vengeful Thorn is a direction-targeted area of effect.
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	True
Sub-type	True
Counters
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

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Deadly Bloom

Deadly Bloom
COST:	75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 Mana
COOLDOWN:	7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5
RANGE:	800

Active: After a 0.625 seconds delay, Zyra sprouts thorns at the target location, dealing magic damage to all enemies hit.

Magic Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ 65% AP)

Rampant Growth: Seeds hit by Deadly Bloom sprout a Thorn Spitter for up to 10 seconds that automatically attacks nearby enemies (plants beyond the first attacking the same target deal only 50% damage)

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Targeting input	Deadly Bloom is a ground-targeted area of effect.
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic

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Rampant Growth

Rampant Growth
COST:	1 Seed
RANGE:	850
Recharge Time:	16.7 / 15.4 / 14.1 / 12.9 / 11.7

Passive: Zyra permanently gains cooldown reduction and stores a Seed periodically (up to 2 stored at once)

Cooldown Reduction: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10%

Active: Zyra plants an untargetable Seed at the target location, which lasts for 30 seconds and grants sight of a small area around it. Zyra can only have a total of 4 Seeds planted at any given time (planting a fifth destroys the oldest one)

Enemy champions can destroy Seeds by stepping on them after 1.5 seconds of been planted (doing so grants true sight of them for 2 seconds)

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Targeting input	Rampant Growth is a ground-targeted trap.

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Grasping Roots

Grasping Roots
COST:	70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 mana
COOLDOWN:	12
RANGE:	1100
SPEED:	1159

Active: Zyra sends a surge of vines in the target direction, dealing magic damage and rooting all enemies hit for a short duration.

Magic Damage: 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+ 50% AP) Root Duration: 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75

Rampant Growth: Seeds hit by Grasping Roots sprout a Vine Lasher for up to 10 seconds that automatically attacks nearby enemies (plants beyond the first attacking the same target deal only 50% damage)

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Targeting input	Grasping Roots is a direction-targeted area of effect
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic
Counters
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

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Stranglethorns

Stranglethorns
COST:	100 / 120 / 140 Mana
COOLDOWN:	130 / 120 / 110
RANGE:	700

Active: Zyra summons a monstrous thicket at the target location, dealing magic damage to all enemies in the area as it expands.

Magic Damage: 180 / 265 / 350 (+ 70% AP)

After 2 seconds, the vines snap upward, knocking up all enemies caught in the thicket for 1 second.

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Targeting input	Stranglethorns is a ground-targeted area of effect.
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic

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Pets

• Thorn Spitter
• Vine Lasher

Thorn Spitter
Bounty
Gold	10
Exp	0
CS
Statistics
Health	6 (modified)
Magic damage	Template:Pp18 (+ 20% AP)
Attack speed	「 0.8 」「 1.2 」
Range	750
Incoming damage modifier 1 from minions and monsters 2 from champion basic attacks 3 from champion area of effect abilities 4 from other champion abilities 4 from Dragon 6 from turrets 6 from Smite, Feast, and Consume
DoT resist.	100%
CC resist.	Blind, Disarm, and Airborne
Mov. speed	Static

Control type	Zyra's basic attacks apply a refreshing, high-priority mark on champions for 3 seconds (Thorn Spitter applies a non-refreshing, lesser-priority one on its target for the same duration)
Target type	Minion
Spell effects	Applies spell effects as pet damage (magic)
Protection	Thorn Spitter's attacks can be dodged ( Counter Strike, Spirit's Refuge Spirit's Refuge) but cannot be blocked. Spell shields will block one Thorn Spitter attack's worth of damage. Silencing Zyra will prevent Thorn Spitter from attacking. Thorn Spitter deals 50% damage when not being the first plant attacking a target.
Priority	Taunt sources (even if out of range) High-priority marks (prioritizing most recently applied) Lesser-priority marks (prioritizing nearest to Thorn Spitter) Champions within 350 units of Thorn Spitter (prioritizing nearest) Non-champions Zyra has recently attacked (prioritizing most recent) Any unit in range (prioritizing closest)
Abilities Enrage Thorn Spitter enrages if hit by Stranglethorns, gaining 50% bonus attack speed.

Vine Lasher
Bounty
Gold	10
Exp	0
CS
Statistics
Health	6 (modified)
Magic damage	Template:Pp18 (+ 20% AP)
Attack speed	「 0.8 」「 1.2 」
Range	400
Incoming damage modifier 1 from minions and monsters 2 from champion basic attacks 3 from champion area of effect abilities 4 from other champion abilities 4 from Dragon 6 from turrets 6 from Smite, Feast, and Consume
DoT resist.	100%
CC resist.	Blind, Disarm, and Airborne
Mov. speed	Static

Control type	Zyra's basic attacks apply a refreshing, high-priority mark on champions for 3 seconds (Vine Lasher applies a non-refreshing, lesser-priority one on its target for the same duration)
Target type	Minion
Spell effects	Applies spell effects as pet damage (magic)
Protection	Vine Lasher's attacks can be dodged ( Counter Strike, Spirit's Refuge Spirit's Refuge) but cannot be blocked. Spell shields will block one Vine Lasher attack's worth of damage. Silencing Zyra will prevent Vine Lasher from attacking. Vine Lasher deals 50% damage when not being the first plant attacking a target.
Priority	Taunt sources (even if out of range) High-priority marks (prioritizing most recently applied) Lesser-priority marks (prioritizing nearest to Vine Lasher) Champions within 350 units of Vine Lasher (prioritizing nearest) Non-champions Zyra has recently attacked (prioritizing most recent) Any unit in range (prioritizing closest)
Abilities Ensnare Vine Lasher's attacks slow its target by 30% for 2 seconds. Enrage Vine Lasher enrages if hit by Stranglethorns, gaining 50% bonus attack speed.

Patch History

V8.1

• Grasping Roots
  • Bug Fix: Fixed very rare instances where canceling an auto attack could also cause an in-flight projectile to disappear.

V7.24

• Stats
  • Base mana regeneration increased to 11.5 from 8.5.
  • Mana regeneration growth reduced to 0.4 from 0.8.
• Garden of Thorns
  • Seed spawn radius reduced to 900 from 1300.
  • Plant duration increased to 8 seconds at all levels from .
  • Spawned seed duration reduced to 30 seconds from 45.
  • Plants:
    • Gold bounty reduced to 3 from 5.
    • Base health increased to 8 from 4.
    • Ranged champion damage increased to 4 from 2.
    • Melee champion damage increased to 8 from 2.
    • Removed: On-hit effects dealing bonus damage.
    • Single target ability damage increased to 8 from 4.
    • Area of effect ability damage increased to 4 from 2.
    • DOT ability damage reduced to 1 from 2.
    • Large minion/monster damage increased to 2 from 1.
• Rampant Growth
  • Removed: Increases plants' health to .
  • New Effect: Killing an enemy grants 20% charge toward a seed. This is increased to 100% for enemy champion takedowns, large monster and large minion kills.
• Grasping Roots
  • Base damage increased to 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200.
• Stranglethorns
  • New Effect: Enraged plants gain 50% current and maximum health.

V7.22

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 29 from 20.04.
  • Base health increased to 504 from 499.32.
  • Health growth increased to 79 from 74.

V7.20

• Stranglethorns
  • Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays the correct damage bonus for plants empowered by Stranglethorns.

V7.15

• Wildfire Zyra
  • Bug Fix: Crown no longer stretches during several animations.

V7.12

• General
  • Bug Fix: Must now actually fire a basic attack to command plants to focus a target. Issuing an attack command and immediately cancelling it no longer triggers the redirect.

V7.11

• Deadly Spines
  • Removed: Thornspitters killed increasing the minion killed stat.
• Grasping Roots
  • Removed: Vine Lashers killed increasing the minion killed stat.

V7.9

• Stats
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.

V7.5

• General
  • New Effect: New death animation.
• Haunted Zyra
  • General
    • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where she wasn't able to use the champion mastery emote during death.
  • Thorn Spitter
    • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where enrage was barely visible on Thorn Spitters.
• SKT T1 Zyra
  • Stranglethorns
    • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where no on-ground particles would appear beneath Zyra when using Stranglethorns.

V7.3

• General
  • Removed: Thornspitters and Vine Lashers will no longer always target nearby enemy champions on-spawn instead of the closest enemy unit, even if the ability that spawned them didn't hit a champion.
• Deadly Spines
  • Mana cost increased to 70 from 60.

V7.2

• General
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Zyra's dead body could intercept ARAM's snowball.
• Rampant Growth
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Zyra's seeds from both Rampant Growth and Garden of Thorns weren't respecting their spawn cap.

V6.19

• General
  • Bug Fix: Zyra's plants now properly count as pets rather than area-of-effect abilities for the slow effect of Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

V6.15

• Deadly Spines
  • Base damage increased to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180.
  • AP scaling increased to 60% AP from 55% AP.

V6.14

• Garden of Thorns
  • Bug Fix: Reactivating while Zyra is recalling in brush (thus giving away her location)

V6.13

• Garden of Thorns
  • Seed spawn time increased to seconds from Template:Pp18
• Deadly Spines
  • Bug Fix: Thorn Spitters automatically targeting enemy champions even if Zyra doesn't damage them
• Rampant Growth
  • Cooldown changed to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 seconds from 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13

V6.9

• Gameplay Update
  • General
    • New ability icons
  • Stats
    • Health increased to 499 from 479
    • Movement speed increased to 340 from 325
  • Garden of Thorns - New I
    • Zyra spawns one (occasionally two) seeds every Template:Pp18 seconds in her vicinity but they do not grant vision. Seeds prefer spawning in brush and cannot do so too close together, and the timer on her next seed delays if Zyra is concealed within a brush and there is no room for additional seeds. Zyra can only have 8 seeds planted at a time, which last for 45 seconds. Casting Deadly Spines or Grasping Roots causes nearby seeds to sprout plants, which last for a short duration and deal magic damage per attack. Plants beyond the first attacking a single target deal only 50% damage.
    • Plant health reduced to 4 from 6
    • New Effect: Plants take 0.5 damage per on-hit effect ( Blade of the Ruined King, Toxic Shot) and from applied damage-over-time ( Noxious Blast, Blaze)
    • Plant damage reduced to Template:Pp18 (+ 15% AP) from Template:Pp18 (+ 20% AP)
    • Plant duration reduced to seconds from 10 at all ranks.
  • Deadly Spines
    • Renamed from Deadly Bloom
    • Area of effect changed to rectangular and perpendicular to Zyra from circular
    • Plant-spawning area increased (relative to damage one)
    • Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95
    • Base damage reduced to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 from 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210
    • AP ratio reduced to (+ 55% AP) from (+ 65% AP)
  • Rampant Growth
    • Removed: Passively granting cooldown reduction
    • New Effect: Plants passively gain 0.4 / 0.8 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 2 maximum health for a total 4.4 / 4.8 / 5.2 / 5.6 / 6
    • Seed duration increased to 60 seconds from 30
  • Stranglethorns
    • Removed: Enraged plants gaining 50% bonus attack speed
    • Added: Enraged plants deal 50% bonus damage

V6.2

• Rampant Growth
  • Bug Fix: Plant attacks ignoring dodge change from targets

V5.22

• Stats
  • Mana regen increased to 8.5 from 6

V5.18

• Rampant Growth
  • Bug Fix: Plants sometimes still trying to attack targets they cannot see (thus preventing them for attacking new ones)
  • Bug Fix: Plants second attack sometimes taking a long time to trigger
  • Plant AI updated so they rotate faster to face their next target
  • Plant attack priority order updated
    • Zyra's basic attacks apply a refreshing, high-priority mark for 3 seconds against enemy champions, while plants apply a non-refreshing, lesser-priority one for the same duration
      1. Taunt sources (even if out of range)
      2. Most-recently-applied high-priority marks
      3. Nearest lesser-priority marks to plants
      4. Nearest enemy champions within 350 units of plants
      5. Non-champions Zyra has most-recently attacked
      6. Closest unit in range

V5.3

• Rampant Growth
  • New Effect: Plants display their range when sprouted

V4.5

• Stats
  • Armor increased to 15 from 11

V3.13

• Deadly Bloom
  • Range reduced to 800 from 825
  • Damage changed to 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ 65% AP) from 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+ 60% AP)
• Rampant Growth
  • Range increased to 850 from 825
  • Passive cooldown reduction reduced to 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10% from 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20
  • Plant damage changed to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18
  • Seed destruction delay reduced to 1.5 seconds from 3
  • Bug Fix: Seeds sometimes not sprouting plants
• Stranglethorns
  • Removed: Stunning after completing displacement
  • Bug Fix: Plants sprouting within the thicket not becoming enraged

V3.7

• Rampant Growth
  • Bug Fix: Tooltip display for Thorn Spitter and Vine Lasher bonus damage from AP ratio
  • New Effect: Thorn Spitter and Vine Lasher benefit from Banner of Command's Legion

V1.0.0.152 - V1.0.0.154

• General
  • Lore updated ('Kumungu Jungle' from 'Plague Lands')

V1.0.0.153

• Rise of the Thorns
  • Base damage reduced to Template:Pp18 from Template:Pp18
  • Projectile speed reduced to 1900 from 2200
  • Projectile width reduced to 70 from 90
• Rampant Growth
  • Bug Fix: Vine Lasher sometimes slowing for higher than the intended 30%
• Grasping Roots
  • Projectile speed reduced to 1150 from 1325

V1.0.0.152

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 325 from 300

V1.0.0.145

• Rise of the Thorns
  • Bug Fix: Incorrectly canceling spellcasts upon activation
• Rampant Growth
  • Removed: Seed destruction breaking spell shields
  • Plant selection radius increased slightly
• Grasping Roots
  • Particle updated for visibility

August 7th Hotfix

• Stats
  • Movement speed reduced to 300 from 310
• Rampant Growth
  • Per-extra-plant single-target damage reduced to 50% from 75
• Grasping Roots
  • Damage changed to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240
• Stranglethorns
  • Base damage reduced to 180 / 265 / 350 from 200 / 300 / 400
  • Cast range reduced to 700 from 800

V1.0.0.143

• Added