As a jg are you always taking drag?
Because early game I not necessarily always am. I am a more tower objective , push hard and try to GG at 20 if you can type of person..
I really enjoy Gold elo because you have teammates who are somewhat smart, a little cooperative, (unlike bronze), and then the enemy is still bad enough to capitalize on their mistakes (most of the time).
As jg, I will usually take
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for jg. I try to snowball the lanes, which works pretty well if you help your lane in gold elo because most golds wont feed 15 times early game and then beg for a gank. When the enemy has 3-4 people at drag, I could steal the drag, but if we are 2-3 kills ahead and ahead in cs, i just let them have it, I probably ask a support to go make them chase them around the map, and I just take 1 or 2 towers in that time.
Drag is helpful, but I feel sometimes, one or two drags can be sacrificed.