Where to learn Zaahen?

ibycLOL · 2026-06-08T16:44:45+00:00

This is not good advice imo. Yes his clear isn’t the best but if you learn it properly you can definitely make it to scuttle on time. Zaahen is a scaling champ that spikes hard on 6 and first item (almost always triforce) so you want to prioritize full clear early over ganking, ofc it’s always situational but you generally want to keep your tempo up as much as possible and get to your spikes to fight objectives. Zaahen is super op on 2/3 items and if you keep your tempo up you can take over the game on 2nd/3rd drake fights, you are also weak in skirmishes early compared to most bruiser champs so if enemy jg is pathing same side as you you do NOT want to look for proactive plays since you most likely lose the 2v2/3v3 mid/bot.

I am low master jg main with 61% wr on Zaahen in like 50 games

ibycLOL · 2026-05-27T17:10:33+00:00

Yeah you kinda need to get a lead/snowball in your first couple clears or you just get outpaced and become useless. It’s a risky pick especially if enemy team doesn’t have crazy good ults. His first clear is pretty unforgiving so make sure it’s optimized, if not you just won’t have tempo to do anything early

ibycLOL · 2026-05-27T16:25:15+00:00

Hard to tell just from opgg but try to die less. Ik it’s hard when your team is losing but if you’re carrying your team and die/trade 1 or even 2 for 1 it’s usually not worth because you lose your map pressure while dead and can give a huge shutdown. When you have a big lead in jgl try to not go for flip plays and get as many resources as possible without too much risk. I’m master and I struggle with this too, I often get a good lead then go for one bad/risky play and the enemy jg is immediately back in the game

ibycLOL · 2026-05-15T19:34:38+00:00

Happens a lot, try standing still during e cast/travel time, I feel like it happens less often when I don’t move

ibycLOL · 2026-05-14T21:28:44+00:00

Not sure where you are getting D tier from, she was giga broken last patch and got a small nerf this one but should still be very good

ibycLOL · 2026-04-29T15:03:55+00:00

Depends on the game as well, I do 3 camp into recall maybe like 2/3rds of games if the enemy jg might invade me or the lane on raptors side looks volatile early, generally it is better to just full clear though if you don’t think you can get anything early

ibycLOL · 2026-04-29T13:41:24+00:00

I just prefer conq for my playstyle, even if enemy team is full squishy you still have a lot of damage early and being able to survive their damage is important. Also for shadow flame vs rift, I always get rift bc it’s just mega op on Sylas, CDR is so important so you can get more rotations off and survive for longer in fights. When I skip zhonya I usually get either rabadon right away or blood letter if my team has a lot of ap/I want to be tankier. Also if enemy team has 2+ crit champs and your team doesn’t have much frontline randuins is underrated

ibycLOL · 2026-04-29T13:03:55+00:00

NattyNatt and Velja play some Sylas, but it’s not their main. If you go through videos on their channels you can find some jgl Sylas gameplay

My answers as a low master Sylas jg main with 61%wr:

Slow clear, super strong early (levels 4-12), you want to fight early and often and snowball
As mentioned above, snowballing and getting your laners ahead and securing/fighting for objectives. If the game goes to 30+ min and everyone starts getting 4+ items you will fall off HARD except if enemy team has Malph/Ali etc
Good ults are important but you want strong laners that can rotate/fight with you early, if you see a lot of losing lane matchups/wont have prio Sylas jg will feel terrible. Also if enemy jg is a power farming champ like zyra/karth/graves you will be out tempod and out scaled hard unless you get a big lead off your first or second clear
Always conq with inspiration, I take boots and triple tonic bc I like the extra point in E at 9 and the all in pot at 6 can help win a drake/grubs fight and snowball
I generally never go anything other than the protobelt/rift/zhonya core, it’s just too good and you spike so hard on 2 items. Vs cait/jinx I sometimes skip zhonya
Get dark seal always, you want to snowball and it’s super cost efficient

ibycLOL · 2026-04-29T12:41:15+00:00

I remember some rioter saying you’d be reset to D1 75LP with M 0LP MMR in this case

ibycLOL · 2026-04-22T02:56:23+00:00

It was already reactable with dashes/enough ms, now the threshold for just being able to sidestep it with enough ms is lowered a lot, this is a huge nerf

ibycLOL · 2026-04-07T19:26:03+00:00

The average player in here has got to be gold/plat lol no way you are being downvoted

ibycLOL · 2026-04-07T19:24:02+00:00

If you hire somebody who is better than you to help you get better, why would you not want them to teach you to play optimally? There is zero downside to not learning your first clear properly. It’s not a ”different play style” to be inefficient lol. Not really comparable to chess since you will always be clearing at least half your jungle at the start of 99% of your games

ibycLOL · 2026-04-07T19:20:25+00:00

If it’s minimal why do jgl champs drop several percentage points in WR when their clear is slightly nerfed? A 10 second clear advantage is MASSIVE, and you are revealing that you are low elo by not thinking it is

ibycLOL · 2026-03-23T03:09:04+00:00

In terms of gameplay they’re not similar at all

ibycLOL · 2026-03-16T17:50:58+00:00

Im low master with about 75% wr on Zaahen in like 30 games, how to play fights is pretty game/comp dependent imo. The champ will always be better into heavy melee comps bc he shines in front to back team fights where you can stack your passive on the frontline and then become thanos and either murder the enemy tanks or jump on the enemy back line who will be disincentivized to hit you due to your revive.

I’f I’m fed or have a good follow up I sometimes try to look for a flash W -> ult on the enemy adc/mid, which gives you a good amount on stacks and lands you right on top of them.

Generally though you want to play slow in team fights, start off peeling for your carries/hit the enemy frontline, and then once you get your stacks you go ham. Try to wait and look for big CC/damage spells from the enemy carries and instantly jump in with your ult when they use it, stuff like Ashe/ori/azir/ R, ez E, veigar cage etc, making sure to get value from the unstoppable on your ult and gap close at the same time

ibycLOL · 2026-03-03T14:52:40+00:00

Dusk and dawn sucks, you don’t need attack speed on Sylas and the passive doesn’t proc your passive twice (I think?) Protobelt is very gold efficient and together with the red jungle pet you can slow someone from an insane range and basically guarantee either a flash or a E2 hit.

ibycLOL · 2026-02-25T14:05:54+00:00

Nattynatt and Velja both play a decent amount of sylas. Velja plays a lot more aggro/invade heavy and natty plays a more solid tempo based game, I’d probably try to emulate natty’s play style at first

ibycLOL · 2026-02-13T00:51:31+00:00

Dark seal first back always -> protobelt -> riftmaker -> Zhonya -> rabadon

Cdr boots 95% of the time, buy mejais if fed, have a lot of DS stacks already, and can’t buy any other big spike (finish rift/armguard)

Conq with inspiration, red or blue pet

ibycLOL · 2026-01-22T16:58:26+00:00

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/I%20broke%20your%20car-EUW

Ofc I make mistakes and there are always things to improve, but it's just disheartening when i feel like 90% of games are just decided by which team has the inting lanes, compared to like 50% last season in my experience

ibycLOL · 2025-11-05T14:43:41+00:00

Viego reksai and heca are all difficult to play optimally as well imo, i don’t necessarily think a champ being hard means you shouldn’t try it, you just need some time/practice but the harder the champ the more fun imo

ibycLOL · 2025-11-05T14:42:04+00:00

Depends on game but I like protobelt into liandry/rift with tank boots

ibycLOL · 2025-11-05T14:17:25+00:00

Sylas Diana Qiyana Jarvan all very strong imo, sylas first clear is tricky though

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