Thanks for the feedback.  I'm actually trying out quite a few different setups, but sadly, out of my 7 or so games yesterday where I chose mid/support for roles, I only rolled mid once, so I didn't get experiment a bunch with a mid setup.  I did go with an aggressive support setup (yielded mixed results - hyper carry if doing ok, so so if not).

Anyway, let's see.  I actually felt great against the vlad in that one game.  I traded fine with him and actually whooped him just fine until his friends showed up and aramed it up for a long time.  You are right - I went with the scaling health, but I felt pretty comfortable.  That said, the vlad seemed to have a pretty low skill level, so it wasn't much of a threat.  

hm... so, I actually watched that fellas guides a few times.   I'm debating on whether or not to setup specific rune pages for her.  Sadly, I like to specialize A BUNCH, so I'll end up having to blow away some pages to get zyra specific.  Maybe someday dr rito will let me give them more money for additional rune pages.  

Anyway, playing zyra mid is impacting my support zyra game - a bit in a negative way.  Mana usage and harass vary quite a bit.  When supporting, I'd generally use less mana and try to converse for a bigger burst pattern.  As mid, I spam a bit more (not over the top, but more).  But I'm carrying that over to the support role and I don't have quite as much sustain for the early stuff.  

I've been trying with and without the mastery that either gives a % of your mana back added dmg if below 40% hp.  Without the % mana has a huge impact on me at various stages in either role.  The added dmg seems pretty valuable though.

I did ok vs a LB in my one game as mid last night even with my jungler running mid with low hp for no reason to die and give lb dbl buffs 5 min in... 

I think I would have been better off if I had a flat MR setup... so maybe I'll make one of those. My traditional zyra support is actually just a safe support page (mpen, arm, mr, maybe health - can't remember).  That was my only other option for runes vs lb that game.  The lb clearly had some ideas of how to play around the zyra matchup.  She'd dash to an angle then reposition a bunch to try to avoid getting snared by my e.  Anyway, quite a few matchups to learn.  Hoping I don't burn out on her too quickly.  Started to yesterday. 

Yeah - I saw that in the guide also - just not used to the motion 100%.  Something to work on for sure. thx

oh boy.. patch notes indicate that 4k resolution is fixed...

Another PSA for folks.  Just decided to use this again. It's a LoL page sorter.  It enables you to move your rune and mastery pages (sort them or copy others if you want).  Takes about 2 minutes to setup.  Instructions here.  Still works (used it before and just used it now).

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1iq79d/tool_copy_sort_runemastery_pages/

OK - so here's what I think is currently the best in game stat tool around.  Worth a look.

http://www.soloq.gg/

you use it 2 ways.  1 - when you hit the lobby, copy the names (x player joined the room) and paste them into the multi search tab.  This pulls stats so you have an idea of what you have in the lobby.  Once the load screen pops up, hit lookup live game.  It loads a TON of good stats in a very nice interface.  Seems really well done and I think its worth a look.

Ranked stuff - I'm 1 and 1.  Both games were kind of a mess.  

• Game 1 - we have a nice late game comp (amumu/malph/zyra), so Aoe doom pretty much.  Early/mid its a bit of a stomp in the enemy teams favor.  Many well coordinated rotations resulting in 4 man dives, etc. Poor responses from our team and folks just doing some derpy going to go die by myself things. Late game we run 3 back to back aces nd put the game way.  Very rough. One annoying shite ffing over and over that fed the crap out of his lane, but our comp just had too much lockdown and damage late, so we put em away. Yasuos tend to like malph/zyra ults as well.  
• Game 2 - dynamic queue officially fugs me.  We have a 3 man pre including an intentional feeder and some pretty low skill level folks vs a rengar and some folks with decent skill levels. My adc is pussy.  I set him up for about 3 kills where he only had to do 100 dmg period, but did crap.  He fed and then went afk for the last 15 minutes of the game.  My jungler was a feeding graves that spammed flash every time it was up for giggles and spent the majority of his time feeding and talking to the other team in all chat.  And our other lanes did not do so hot.  Anyway, 1 intentional feeding troll and 1 shitbox that afks for 15 minutes.  No idea why I ended up in game with the shitters, but I did.  Boo.

There are so many epic hard counters, I'm more annoyed at how utterly hosed people are based on pick order, not so much overall win rate...

Well, most champs don't have high durability and an on hit ability kit, including a stun, to go with it.  He's one of the best split pushers, excels at pursuit, and with those two items, will dish out horrendous damage as he procs huge bonuses from phoenix and tiger stance.

When I'm boozed playing ranked, I always listen to dj bby d

http://www.twitch.tv/djbabydee

What's the difference between peter and hunny?

Peter has high enough elo that I can invite him to a ranked game.  

in promos now for gold I.

So far i'm digging my win rate as support in s6 ranked. 75% (16 games w/ zyra, 4 w morg).  Good stuff.  And folks seem to be more relaxed about elo and just having fun climbing so far w/ dynamic.  

What's that?  1 less ban available in ranked?  Looking forward to see how that pans out.  On my alt account when I was spamming a few weeks back, I think I got 1k IP for 1 game and then 860 ip a pop or so.  Account had some IP boosts from rito from awhile back.  

Apparently brands ult is bugged. It just disappears if his target is ablaze which is pretty much always. I noticed this 3 or 4 times while playing him since the jihn patch came out. Thought I was imagining things but there is a reddit post with riot comments on it.

I'm leaning towards udyr being on the must ban list.  56.7% win rate.  Seem some in ranked... unpleasant.  

Sion and panth are way up the win rate tree as well now.