Zagara, the Broodmother of the Swarm, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the StarCraft universe. If Kerrigan is the Queen of the Zerg, then Zagara is the mother of the brood. Cunning and tenacious, she commands her vicious children on the field of battle. Encounter her brood and beware: mess with her children, and you'll answer to mama.
Zagara is a powerful global Summoner who provides Vision for her team and uses a variety of Zerg Summons to wreak havoc upon her enemies.
Base Stats
Health: 1400
Mana: 500
Attack Speed: 1.00
Attack Range: 6.5
Attack Damage: 83
Author's Note:
Zagara has been falling off from the meta lately especially with her outdated kit. I think her problem stems from the fact that she either relies too much on her Creep or too much on her Summons which she can't control. She's been nerfed over and over again due to, in my opinion, her Summons doing "free damage" without her having to risk her life. She is also very mana hungry and has no way of self-sustaining herself before very well into the late mid-game which is weird considering that she is a Solo Laner. The only way for her to have self-sustain is to take Nydus, but then her team fight abilities suffer without Devouring Maw and you can't buff Nydus because of its universal CDR. Also, she relies way too heavily on Corrosive Saliva and Bile Drop to be effective which means those 2 talents would dominate their tiers and won't allow for a lot of builds.
So, in this rework, I plan to change that by introducing new talents for Zagara so that she can be less tied by Bile Drop and Corrosive Saliva. I do this by introducing a baseline quest (I like to introduce baseline quests for heroes lol) that can allow her to ramp up her damage and eventually get additional charges on her Basic Abilities which free her from dependence on Bile Drop. On top of that, I tried to give her more reliable damage by allowing her to fixate her Summons on a specific target as well as restricting her to have to be present near them to empower them to avoid her being a broken "Leave it and be done with it" type of hero. Also, since Nydus Worm is so fun, I thought I would make it her baseline mount and make her a Global Summoner. Of course, the CDR part of it is made to only apply to Nydus Worm and it no longer gives Creep benefits.
I also tried to give her new build pathways, specifically the following 3;
1. W/E-Teamfight Build where she focuses on empowering her Hydralisk and Roaches to help her team fight capabilities. This one I think will be the most similar to the old meta Zagara with Corrosive Saliva eventually being unlocked.
2. Creep/AA Build where she focuses on empowering her own Basic Attacks and Creep spreading to make her less reliant on her Summons. I have also introduced some talents that would make her Creep spreading easier.
3. Q-Split Push Build where Zagara becomes a split push machine with her Q. She can use this in conjunction with her Nydus worms to put global pressure on the map. This build focuses more on PvE.
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