How do you deal with Invasions?

OwlMechanic·10/4/2014, 8:45:46 PM·2 votes·573 views

I don't know if it's the difference between gold 4 and gold 3, or if something is catching on from worlds but it seems like every game since i've been promoted I've been extremely heavily invaded constantly by not just the enemy jungler, but the enemy support/top as well. I've tried warding up, making sure I have my pink up at all times but I can't handle the pressure of ward clearing/maintaining and still make an impact in the game (because I can never make it even, much less take their vision down to counter jungle them.)

So my question, how do you defend against this what champs that are not lee sin or khazix (cause **** those guys, seriously.) can handle constant invasion/give some of their own. I've tried trundle most recently which is okay... but I don't know. I feel like this tiny tier change and I'm in a whole different class of jungling that I'm just getting whooped in.

4 Comments

KING ATTILA10/4/2014, 10:14:28 PM3 votes

Counter invade, perhaps.

Worgslarg10/4/2014, 11:08:16 PM2 votes

It depends on what jungler you're playing. If you're someone like lee sin or udyr, you're not gonna get invaded because of your amazing early game. It's quite different for rammus and nautilus.

MrBuffington10/5/2014, 2:14:49 AM1 votes

Call for help from your laners if it's just one person invading; if it's the entire team, you can try a counter invade or just hard farm your other side of the jungle and try to recover; if your entire team is grouped and prepared to respond to the team invading, you can try to contest, but you need to know who has the stronger lvl 1, etc. Sometimes just contesting a bit and forcing the enemy to stick around in your jungle can provide a good advantage to your laners, who basically get to free farm while the enemy team is stuck in your jungle, but I would be careful not to die.

Pantheon is a very strong early jungler, and can out duel a lot of champions early. I'm pretty sure Udyr and Shyvana are also pretty tough to 1v1 early. Amumu's early game also isn't as weak as a lot of people seem to believe (he's no Lee Sin, but he's not super weak either; I've seen Amumu's turn an invade around on an over aggressive Lee Sin).

FantasySniper10/5/2014, 8:40:20 AM1 votes

Hide better, work with your team, and keep vision on specific paths they have to take. Catching them in the act is the first step, work with your strategy for dealing with them from there.