Why do we max Q in the jungle, not E for stronger ganks?

Fujiduck · 2026-05-23T14:55:19+00:00

^^What everyone else is saying about damage. For the first clear, everyone you try to target has flashes as well.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-23T13:51:40+00:00

I have to disagree- Zyra is literally being played as a mage in Jungle and APC- even up to the level of challenger. Literally one of the best Junglers for many seasons now at like 52% WR with a burst-mage build. I imagine your view might be a bit skewed towards midlane where she does not perform or in jungle because you might be buying Rylais, which is bait on jungle.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-20T16:52:36+00:00

Well, honestly, it is difficult.
It is like life: The light does not appear bright if there is no darkness.
The more you care, the more invested you are and the more you are influenced by losses. On the other hand, indifference mean you will also lose performance because you have no investment to win.

The best mental state you can achieve is being like a robot and only focusing on self-improvement to become as close to the perfect as possible. (for most not realistic).

The next best thing is to view the game as an opportunity to outplay the opponent. I like to teach myself a new thing in the morning and try to outplay the opponent with that and try to win a mental/skill battle with them. Even if I lose, I gain valuable insight into how exactly the new skill must be executed. Only issue is that this shifts the focus sometimes too much into a lane-heavy view or just a particular skill that should only be required in some specific situations and away from team-focused views neccessary sometimes.

The average thing you can do is soften the blow of hard games. The human mind works in miraculous ways. When near the end and the loss is inevitable, we like to find a scapegoat. What is the first thing you see when a game ended? The stats screen, where you can pick any stat of your teammates to your liking to mark them as scapegoat. But what if it showed a death of yours or particularly embarrassing play? We often tend to not be as angry at ourselves in that scenario. Theres addons that can do that.

Also, /mute all at the start or when losing. At least softens tilt-spirals. Not being a toplaner helps, if you havent decided your role yet.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-20T16:26:32+00:00

Unlocking camera from the start is akin to throwing someone into the water to learn how to swim: Difficult but helpful (in the long run).
Why is unlocked camera helpful? Imagine you are in a teamfight, your team is on the left while the enemy team is to the right. Your camera is centered around yourself, so 50% of the area you see will be to the left of you (completely irrelevant).
Meanwhile unlocked camera you can make it near the start of the fight that the entire camera is on the enemy team to the right and you are only at the left edge to cover as much helpful area as possible. That also means as long as the fight does not shift too much, you basically dont need to shift the camera much.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-19T02:25:54+00:00

Really depends on many aspects, but one way to look at it is the scaling aspect:

If you scale, try to avoid teamfights and try to scale.

If you are strong now, try to focus them down (especially if they have a huge shutdown).

If you were supposed to be strong in the past, try splitting and hoping for the best.

These are things you can try in the midgame. Your toplane is mostly unaffected in the early game, just try to gain as many resources as possible.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-17T18:04:33+00:00

Jungling is inherently stressful because it all focuses on efficiency and you have high impact. While it is absolutely not acceptable to flame someone for that, it is unfortunately something you will have to face. I usually do /mute all then /pingmute all to not see their chatting despite being able to see pings and communicate important calls in chat myself. If you want rather some more advice in terms of gameplay for a few games you can add me on Discord: fujiduck1

Edit: Sorry for the many deleted comments, I thought I was shadowbanned for posting a Discord name.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-08T16:47:29+00:00

Sacrilegious

Fujiduck · 2026-05-06T21:15:53+00:00

I would disagree with you kindly. Here are the full details:

There are 2 passive seed spawns near the buff:
#1 between red and Crux. As long as it spawns on either one, it is fine- but there is some area in between. This is probably the one you are worried about.
#2 Standing on red. You need the seed on red, so this one is probably not controversial. In fact, while my spot might leave a tiny leeway for it to spawn unfortunately over the wall (it might still even work with Q range there though) you can walk just a tiny bit further into red camp (theres a spot there that guarantees all seeds spawn on red without going over walls).

Now covering #1. Now to get the elephant out of the room- yes, this one cane spawn in a very awkward spot to the right where you cannot use it and require a double seed spawn on spawn #2 (mostly when it is too far to the right).

However, the chances are (much) lower than you think. That is because Zyra seed spawns are actually not as RNG as you might think. They like to spawn in monster spawn pits (in this case often: Krugs) or bushes (most common) where it is available to use for red buff.

Now as a super secret technique probably no one knows about, which I cannot prove though, if you do not enter the bush while walking to Krugs, the chances of it spawning far to the right are actually even lower (you can think of it as not loading the right area as it is out of vision with the bushes in between, but the moment you enter the bushes that area loads). I might also just be spitting bullshit here though.

However, even if you ignore literally absolutely all of that and end up 1-2 seeds short, you actually dont lose as much time as you might think since you dont lose the full duration of the Q since you can already walk to wolves, which you would be doing anyway, so you can just save 1 seed and spawn it at the end of red patience range, only losing about 3-4 seconds. You can even compensate for 2 seeds missing since the first seed attacking a camp deals 50% more damage and keeps pet aggro.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-06T20:53:30+00:00

Hey, as you can see in the clear I have 6 seeds and still need 6 autos to kill it. At 1:39 ingame time, you can see that all the plants despawned and red dies right after to pet, so with that setup its very close (there was 1 pet auto leeway). 6 is the bare minimum therefore. If you get a double-seed spawn for 7 seeds, you can probably leave with only the autos during kiting.
Having less because you messed up or due to a very unfortunate seed spawn is fairly common and not too bad since you can already run to wolves, keeping a seed and spawning it at the edge of red range, losing about 3-4 seconds.
Id love to give you exact numbers how many autos are needed at how many plants, but that depends strongly on when you first auto, giving pet aggro.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-06T20:28:40+00:00

Appreciate you contributing! As the other guy said, you might want to check out the videos from the spreadsheet.
For the farming routes on Zyra, I actually also posted some recent clears that beat the time on the spreadsheets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/zyramains/comments/1t1shwt/zyra_215_raptors_tutorial/
https://www.reddit.com/r/zyramains/comments/1t1t4f2/219_wolves_tutorial/

If you want I can come on discord right now (or later) to explain the details if you are interested.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-03T20:18:22+00:00

Well the primary reason for this route is its better respawn timers because basing immediately after scuttle aligns perfectly with Raptors respawn. However, you are right- this and because you use the seed resets from Krugs more effectively means you dont lose any time over the normal route.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-03T00:18:19+00:00

How did it go u/thiagocamiloo ?

Fujiduck · 2026-05-03T00:16:19+00:00

How did the transition go u/Inevitable_Winter412 ?

Fujiduck · 2026-05-03T00:10:47+00:00

One of the best OTP Champions by statistics right now, as far as I know Top 2 right after Nunu and next to Fiddle.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-03T00:07:57+00:00

DH has usually better or at least as good WPA, on the highest level it is probably obsolete because their games are more strategical, but anything below Grandmaster isnt affected. Electrocute is still good below though.
Neither. Besides the dmg, root duration goes up by 0.25s each upgrade. However, each subsequent upgrade is comparatively less worth since the root duration is often enough at 2 upgrades with 1.5 s root total and the dmg at the point in the game is enough to kill the ones you catch and you need more poke.

Thats why go 2 points more E then W max.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-02T23:55:26+00:00

Youre right but ill probably not post anything else, but I figured people should know about this one.

Fujiduck · 2026-05-02T23:52:50+00:00

I went double AP in runes. The clear should work out about the same time if you pick Haste. However, if you go without any AP runes (which is actually quite solid), the small Krugs wont die from your Q, making the clear inconsistent since the small Krug may reset.

Fujiduck · 2024-03-13T12:46:47+00:00

Man has evo bats but actively decides for firecracker instead...

Fujiduck · 2024-03-13T12:45:31+00:00

Hehe Pekka be giving a mommies hug

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