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a tip for fellow junglers

ReySolomon·3/22/2019, 9:50:50 AM·3 votes·3,803 views

Alright so I've been playing ranked for 2 years now and it's always the same thing..

I pick weak early gamers like Kassadin, Vladimir, Swain, and my junglers always make aggressive plays in the river expecting me to insta-delete the enemies at lvl 2..

THEN when they die they spam ping me and say ''no pressure'' OR ''no followup gg'' like?? i'm barely lvl 2-3 and you're expecting me to follow up and expect me to help when i could easily be deleted at those lvls? NOT only that but have zero DMG too.

SO! Junglers please, if you see your mid is weak early AND top don't make aggressive plays in the river NOR don't expect them to followup either (Especially if they get countered who can easily get killed early vs not only that if they dare to followup they'll get deleted lol) and the worst thing is after you just explained why you can't do such things at the moment they keep doing it and then blaming you the entire game.

so please to the junglers out there, look at your mid/top if they have strong early or weak early to make decisions on going aggressive or playing it passively

ALSO! if your teammates get countered... help them xD? wouldn't make sense not to gank when you see the enemy keeps shoving your teammates in and because of that they will most likely fall behind/not be on time for dragons/not being able to help you when you really need them at later lvls.

16 Comments

Sir Saltarin3/22/2019, 12:21:05 PM4 votes

Lmao why dont you help me with the invades Tristana - Janna botlane, the fact that you are against a Jhin - Zyra bot is irrelevant because I dont know what lane priority means.

ContDeCaterinca13/22/2019, 11:57:24 AM3 votes

Even better scenario,, Nasus has like 10-15 minions pushed into tower, and instead of stacking he has to follow up and potentially get 1 vs 2ed.

DecapitationKing3/22/2019, 9:38:25 PM2 votes

i'm a jungle main, normally play j4 or another jg with very strong ganks. If i go for a gank when my laner is low hp or weak early game, i'm more or less able to solo it and just want my laner to toss out a shot for some kill participation if possible . If my laner has enough hp/ mana and isn't on all cooldowns and i ping that i'm going in, ill be pretty irritated if they don't jump in for a couple shots, since j4 gank at any level is a pretty for sure thing if done right.

heroikc3/22/2019, 2:31:33 PM1 votes

'nother scenario, late game team comp + Khazix , Kha spends more time farming, with the 3-5 ganks given being less than optimal (no kills or spells). Enemy Eve goes on a ganking rampage and make sure her team is fed well, particularly a top lane Kayle. We lose hard and Kha proceeds to feed.

The thigh guy3/22/2019, 8:38:55 PM1 votes

Funny how the “it’s always the junglers fault” train continues. XD

Monlyth3/22/2019, 9:29:43 PM1 votes

{quoted} ALSO! if your teammates get countered... help them xD? wouldn't make sense not to gank when you see the enemy keeps shoving your teammates in and because of that they will most likely fall behind/not be on time for dragons/not being able to help you when you really need them at later lvls.

Doesn't this kind of contradict your earlier advice (that you shouldn't make aggressive plays when your allied laner is weak and can't follow up)? Getting a successful gank on a losing lane is much harder than on a winning one. The advice that I hear for jungling is that you should almost always gank winning lanes, instead of trying to salvage losing ones.

If you gank a winning lane, that lane can easily snowball into a victory. But if you try to gank a losing lane, the chances of failing that gank or dying are much higher, and the enemy will just snowball even more.