Try to gank the losing lane or play to your strong/winning lane?
I was just wondering. Last game I didn't do too well top and my jungler kept trying to gank for me. I told him to focus on bot lane because they were winning. We ended up losing the game, and I told the jungler that he should have focused on the winning lanes. What do you all do in when in similar situations?
depends.
As a jungler you start to get an idea for if you can do anything in a lane. If the lane isnt too far behind and I know i can influence the lane ill gank for it.
Other times I will focus on Winning lanes.
Sometimes you have 2 lanes that are stomping so hard it doesnt make sense to walk over there so you go to the losing lane to help trade. You dont actually go for the kill on the gank. you just roll up hit them with some damage and back off to give your laner advantage for a bit. even if they are behind.
Its really situational. what makes a good jungler is his ability to read the match and know what to do in that situation.
now see to me this is where trickiness comes in.
first off, HOW does a ally influence whether or not the jungler would come back for a gank. For one communication. if we ping on our way, and we go in, we'd want you to go in with us as well, not just farm. if you're oom or oohp, ping it so we know.
Secondly, we are willing to go back to a lane if they do assist us and its a successful gank (getting a summoner or kill for example) if your laner co-operates with you and join in on the gank instead of cussing them out or spamming ? on them if you die, we're more likely to come back to the lane when you ping assistance.
as for behind lanes? it all honestly depends. 1) who is the enemy? 2) how far ahead is the enemy and how far behind is my ally? if say its a fiora or garen who's 2/0 at 7 minutes and my allied top laner does help me out and we were close to killing them, then i would try to come back. they arent too terribly behind, and they are willing to help with the gank.
Now say the fiora or garen is 4/0, and you're allied top laner is 0/4 and dies from solo kills. that makes the lane a little bit more harder to gank imo because now the enemy top laner is fed, and with knowledge that she can kill solo, she can fight a 2v1 and escape. So it would be harder to gank that lane, and try to not feed her anymore. If it gets to the point where i try to gank that said lane and now she's 7/0, to me, that lane is dead, and i cant gank that lane and i'd need help from say mid lane for example, or else that said laner would be even more fed.
But all and all, i would gank where the lane is strong, but not heavily pushed, since most of my junglers aren't the best towerdivers. but if they arent TOO far behind, id try to help out. if its a successful gank, they communicated with me via pings, and assisted me with ganking their lane, i personally would come back later on.
that's just my opinion anyways. im just a unranked casual player
If it lost like 1/5 and 0/3 (on bot) let's say, that can't be saved. If they are a little bit behind and need just so much bonus dmg or cc to win a 2v2 you can. But most of the time I prefer to gank a winning lane ot to pick a easy to gank lane and I camp it (I say 2v2 bcs bot is the lane that most of the time goes either really strong or really weak). But if it's between really good and winning lane vs really badly lossing lane you should instead focus on plays on the map or applying pressure bcs the fed laner is good on his own, and if you do smth around the map like herald or dragon or pick up a skirmish the fed enemies on your lossing lane will have to back off. Other thing is that you can 4-3 men gank (depends on the lane) and kill the enemy/ies and after that start ganking that lane bcs the laner has pick himself up from that shut down gold.
Not a good jungler, but practicing to be one and I've been analyzing my game decisions:
There are lots of factors that I take in before I go for a gank:
How healthy is my team mate in that lane?
How likely will the gank fuck up? This depends a lot on position, how fed each member, including me, is, and chance for countergank.
How likely it will result in kill, or at least, burn summoner, force back or deal a good chunk of damage?
In general, feeding team mates are often, bluntly, not very helpful, and doesn't follow up on ganks. There's also the factor of what champion the opponent is, some is very vulnerable to gank even when fed, some will turn that into a double. Leaving a lane to lose is more often than not, the call I'd avoid if I can, not because a team mate is behind, but the risk of said laner snowballing, as well as the reward of the shut down kill. But giving said laner a fresh 300 gold instead of the reduced bounty on my mate, is even worse.
