@High elo jungle mains, if Top Mid and Bot are all losing lane, what do you do?

AquariusGine·Apr 22, 2018·1 votes·1,488 views

Can anything be done, or is it a goner?

Example: Enemy Irelia took the first tower and pushing in your helpless Swain (who is 0-5 by the way) Enemy TF is constantly shoving in your midlaner (Who didn't die that much, but is struggling to CS) Your botlane is also being shoved in, because the enemy support has a better pick (Slightly behind and struggling to CS)

What do you do in this situation?

I've been trying to learning jungling but whenever all lanes are losing, I don't know how to salvage the game. It's very hard to gank because the enemy has control wards everywhere and an Alistar..

5 Comments

DreadlocksApr 22, 20183 votes

You lose and hope next game your team doesn't lose the game for you before 4 mins.

AptestApr 22, 20183 votes

I am not a jungle main, however here is my assessment.

First of all, you look at your team and figure out who is the most useful player on your team. You are now alone and behind and you need help and what you are going to do, is focus on getting the player who can help you strong enough to help you out.

The most useful player on your team is not the "top lane player" or the "mid lane assassin" or the "bot lane wins game" or any of that bullshit. It's the player who has the presence of mind to make plays on his own and/or to back you up in the plays that you are making.

The next thing you do is you start beefing up that player. You will gank around him and you will try to involve yourlself in his plays in a useful manner and make plays that use this player's ability and insight.

once you do that, Now there are 2 people carrying the team, not just 1.

AzurifyApr 22, 20182 votes

Not much context but you always want to try and focus bot lane this meta cause of how easy it is for the adc to get fed and useful. No game is really lost until everyone gives into the mentality that it is and starts giving up the win because they're kinda just throwing by accident cause of their consensus that they can't do anything.

PiggyTheAstroApr 22, 20182 votes

All replies here are rather negative, I barely play jungle (I am a top main) but I could still give you some help.

Firstly, you must tell your team to stall the game as long as possible while poking their health bars to annoy them and make them recall, if you have a Mundo/Vlad/Nasus/Warwick/any other high sustain champ in the top lane, it's likely you'll catch up.

Now you have to FOCUS bot, since your top doesn't need help since his champ has high sustain. Assuming you are not underleveled you can annoy the bot lane with frequent ganks. Help your mid if he pokes the enemy to 40% hp ish (Vel koz, Xerath and Ziggs are amazing for doing so).

Assuming your top and the enemy top are (kinda) equal you can now gank their lane, this is what you should do if you have trouble ganking bot (Alistar).

By helping ONE lane snowball you'll first catch the attention of the enemy jg, who will help, which will allow your bot and mid to be careless. If 1 lane is overleveled, it may even need 3 people to defend the deep push you'll be cooking up later.

If catching up via agressive ganks doesn't work, try to just stall the game and passively farm, sooner or later, you'll be at the same level with the enemy which will raise your odds.

If the enemy team has a snowball heavy champ, focus him down, a Jinx/Warwick can carry games.