PSA From All Junglers to Everyone

This thread was inspired out of a few recent games I've had as a jungler, one with Udyr and one with Shyvana. If this is in the wrong forum, please let me know. (Wasn't sure where it should go! :) )

To give a little bit of backstory for my recent Shyvana game:

The game I had with Shyvana, the game started, the opposing team had a Kha'Zix jungler and I was playing Shyvana jungle. Naturally, Kha'Zix likes early game pressure ganks, not surprisingly, he starts ganking lanes about 7 minutes into the game, and he was not doing amazing per se. Registered a few kills but also gave up several deaths. He left the laning phase 6 and 5 with no assists if I remember correctly.

Being Shyvana, I got my devourer/Cinderhulk and proceeded to power farm for the first 20 minutes, only coming out of the jungle to counter jungle when I knew Kha'Zix was in the bottom lane when I was top, or vice versa. Or if not that, to provide pressure on to a lane that needed help pushing the lane back in their favor. I left the laning phase with no kills and no deaths, getting flamed for the lack of provided kill pressure in the laning phase, yet nonetheless, I still maintained a lane presence (I will digress, not as strong as I would want.)

Meanwhile, Kha'Zix had around 50 CS when I had 80 CS, I did not take any lane creeps at all during this time, so this is purely jungle CS. Not only that, I slowly, but surely was gaining level advantages over him very quickly.

For those you that are junglers, you know how big of a CS advantage that is for junglers, for those that don't, its quite massive, each CS for a jungler is worth approximately 30-40 gold overall? I could be wrong, if someone knows the exact answer let me know. Point being, I had easily several thousand gold over Kha'Zix as well as two levels.

In other words, despite the lack of kill pressure in the lane, I was destroying Kha'Zix and his team in gold income and the lanes overall were not doing too badly, despite the ganks. Nonetheless flaming was occurring telling me I am a terrible jungler etc, quit the game etc, you get the idea.

Finally, after farming for around 25 minutes, I had 4 and half completed items, item wise, it was clear I had the highest gold income out of everyone by several thousands. Most had JUST finished their third item, with the exception of our WW who had a beautiful double kill on their top lane Irelia and their jungler Kha'Zix early on in the game to start his snowballing.

At that point, I came out of the jungle to start fighting. And to end what is turning into a long story, proceeded to destroy the opposing team for the final 7 to 8 minutes of the game, racking up 7 kills, 13 assists and only 1 death, and tallying a much higher kill participation than their Kha'Zix. Despite the flaming from the team, I ended up carrying my team incredibly hard. I tallied a grand total of 226k damage done overall. The next closest person tallied only 168k of damage done overall.

My game as Udyr occurred a few weeks ago, which was what originally prompted this idea for the thread. Similar start and similar end. Was first to reach full build, proceeded to split push the entire game and force the entire team to come towards me to save their tower in complete vain. In other words, carried that game, got flamed for lack of early game pressure.

So what's the point I'm trying to make here?

The point is, for you folks who prefer to stay in the lane: please understand the type of jungler you are working with. Not all Junglers are the same in the way they play the game and how/what point they are strongest at.

To use Shyvana as an example, if you are playing with a Shyvana, understand that Shyvana is at her strongest when she's allowed to power farm, in the jungle, she is capable of reaching full build the fastest out of pretty much any champion with a consistent time.

If you let her do that, what do you get? You get an unstoppable Dragon who is going to completely be near unkillable and impossible to deal with 20 to 25 minutes into the game. In order for that to happen, laners need to understand that kill pressure will not be strong from her, and play accordingly. Do not play overaggressive and allow for opposing junglers to snowball off of a few kills and allow her to farm like crazy. You let her do so, you have a strong chance of winning.

Vice versa if you're up against an early game jungler, play accordingly. If you do not hand over any kills to someone who is an early game jungler, you've won the jungler v.s. jungler battle.

To use another example, if you are playing with a Shaco or a Lee Sin, understand they are at their strongest when they applies lane pressure in the early game. What that means is to capitalize on the plays they make in the early game to maximize their contribution to the overall game. When late game comes around, they will not be as dominant of a force. Shaco will be at his strongest split pushing and Lee Sin is at his strongest peeling for his team or setting up plays.

So when Shaco goes to start split pushing, there should not be any flaming for the lack of team fight presence: his team fight presence is not strong and better served split pushing else where on the map.

This same message applies to Junglers with laners as well. Understand the lanes you are working with. If you have a lane which has a champion that has a poor laning phase, work to help mitigate the experience of that laning phase. If you do so, you will most likely get paid off with a champion who has a strong late or mid game series. Or work to help a strong lane destroy their lane so they have no chance of coming back whatsoever.

TL;DR : Understand the other damn 9 champions you are playing with, understand when they are strong, understand when they are weak. Understand what they excel at doing, understand what they are sub par at. AND PLAY ACCORDINGLY and do not flame because someone does not play the way they want you to play, and they are playing the way that best suits that champion.

That is all.