Jungling PSA

Radiant Wukong··2 votes·252 views

If you don't actually know what it means to be a jungler, please stop going jungler in ranked games. A competent jungle has to have good map awareness, know when and where to ward and be aware of all 3 lanes as well as knowing how to path their camps to lead into ganks. That alone is only a fraction of it. Know how to apply pressure to make the other lanes paranoid. You don't have to get a kill because you ganked. Sometimes a simple, "Hey, I just cleared this jungle and killed scuttlecrab, I'll pop up and let my presence be known in lane before I recall," is sufficient. Just enough to make the enemy backup for 10 seconds so your laner can get few uncontested CS or making the enemy jungler second guess their route and objectives. Which reminds me, counter jungling/ganking is also a thing to take note of. Cloud drake up and the enemy jungler is ganking top, go top and join the fight. Mountain drake is up and enemy jungler is ganking top, go gank bottom lane and take mountain drake. You have a ward in enemy jungle and just saw them recall, you know you can attack mid without consequence now.

At the very least, if you completely fail at being a jungler but you like the role, then pick up a champ like MasterYi so you can still make a difference when things go south.

And I don't even want to think about you, "I can't gank until level 6," junglers. If you have red buff and you're level 2, auto attacking alone is more than enough. Top/mid has to recall, you can tax lane a little for compensation, your laner now has a level advantage.

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Dukues4 votes

Wait... people actually think grading system in games mean something? LOL.

Well... just looking at first page of your op.gg and most played champs all your k/d/a's are less then 2.00. Which is really low. https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=radiantwukong

Your cs/min in your last like 15+ ranked games in lane never exceeds 6 cs/min, the highest being 5.6 on trundle. Most games it's under 5. That is pretty low.....

Your warding compared to your teammates is low..... I mean hell your support game you placed 7! green wards the whole game. Your top in that game placed 19.

It's hard to look at objectives but based of your other stats I feel you are blowing that number out of proportion as well.

Rank silver 5 with 43% win rate. Not exactly something to brag about.

So yea. You could improve on a lot of things rather than wasting time worrying about your jungles skill.

Besides... not like your last jungle game went that well (Talon 2-8-4 with 2.6 cs/min.

Radiant Wukong1 votes

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Dukues1 votes

when I got permabanned.

Enough said? LOL

Dukues2 votes

Well.... seeing as there is a slot for jungler in every game (ranked) and seeing as how there are games from challenger to bronze 5.... you need to realize there will be ranked games of different skill level. And since those games are different skill level.... so will the skill level of the junglers in those games.

I am sure your 4-11 showing as top wukong was the jungles fault.

Or your 0-9 Alistar game.

Maybe if you worked on being a more competent teammate your jungler wouldn't have to carry your ass every game?

Just a thought.

Radiant Wukong1 votes

Of my 200 A+ games, you choose to highlight the roughly 15 games I did bad and without even comparing my KDA/CS/Objectives to the rest of my team? I hope you never get jury duty so you go into cases and reach a verdict without reviewing all the information. #awkward

sn not to mention my over 60% win rating when I'm jungler

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