Why Dont Junglers Gank Anymore?

ItsOrval·Sep 25, 2016·4 votes·620 views

Past 5 games had the enemy pushing all the way to my tower, freezing the lane right next to my tower, 0 ganks from my jungler, but yet im still getting ganked from theres? Lol? Junglers, your role is to gank to get a lane fed so they carry. If in your mindset youre thinking that you are suppose to be carrying, then you shouldnt play jungle, because its harder for a jungler to carry compared to any other role besides support. Not only do they not gank my lane, but they dont seem to gank anyone else either. Ill look at their kda and it will be 0/0/1, or 1/0/0. Its like after they get the first assist/kill, theyre done ganking for the game and now just going to farm.

6 Comments

TalinisSep 25, 20164 votes

Only noob junglers don't gank. You can tell you are most likely going to lose the game when you have a passive jungler who just farms and doesn't gank. Ganking is one of the primary jobs of the jungler. Watch map, watch for extended lanes, watch for when lanes leave or where enemy jungler is so you can counter gank or get an objective. Gank lanes constantly to get your laners ahead and not just 1 lane but multiple. Visit all lanes, focus on a lane for a few kills and then help the others. Farming is ok when there is nothing else to do but farming is secondary to map control and pressure and getting the team ahead. You should be hitting camps on the way toward the lanes you are going to target next. If you focus mid/top then get top ahead and swap to mid/bot etc and get those camps on that side.

So if you get the jungler that doesn't gank etc then he is prob one of those team mates that would've fed in lane. That's the jungler version.

Darkslayer85Sep 25, 20161 votes

THANK YOU

Zero Skill TankSep 25, 20162 votes

This minus "visit all lanes", and "farming is ok when there is nothing else to do". Farming is just as important as ganking, if you can't keep up with both you should probably try easier jungler.

TalinisSep 25, 20161 votes

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This minus "visit all lanes", and "farming is ok when there is nothing else to do". Farming is just as important as ganking, if you can't keep up with both you should probably try easier jungler.

Farming is important but you should never give up good ganking opportunities for that farm. If you just tell people farm is as important, in their minds that will mean, well they are super pushed up to tower with no flash but getting this raptor camp is just as important. NO.

And visiting all lanes, yes, not every game should you visit all lanes, especially if one of those lanes is just straight bad and ganking it won't help him do any better or it's a laner that can 1 v 2 you. However, you should try to visit all lanes, if you give a few kills to one lane and snowball them so they are doing well, swap the focus to the other lanes. Even if a gank is not successful for your laner that is behind, it will help curb the aggression against him, knowing you may show up.

Remember, this is dynamic queue not LCS. People are much more apt to feed and die to ganks than LCS so it is easier to snowball lanes. The more aggressive junglers in ganking usually win as a result. LCS/challenger etc is a bit different because people more or less know where you are for the most part. They have you waste time by ganking which could have been used for farming since you got nothing out of it.

ScorpionexSep 25, 20162 votes

I have repeated this multiple times to multiple teammates my job is to secure objectives and help the team spread our gold more by farming the jungle that is literally the two things we have to do...

now if it helps to secure objectives that is when i will gank...

say i see an opportunity to take drag but bot is also very gankable then i will gank...

but if your just asking for a gank when i could get a tower with mid or get a drag then no

Unstoppable MonkSep 25, 20161 votes

It's also a very get-to-6 meta for the jungle. If you're not good at gank junglers you really should just farm and not give your team ideas with picking something dumb like picking LeeSin Khazix JarvanIV Rengar to steal camps.