Advice on Jungling hopeless lanes?

DiViND·6/25/2019, 9:27:06 PM·1 votes·1,309 views

I've just come out of a game (one of many) which included me jungling lanes in which no matter how many ganks or kills they get, they still lose.

I was playing Udyr vs a Kayn, I've at one point this week completely given up jungling for a while just then to realize Im much better off as a jungler than a laner as 80% of my games have been playing jungle and my top game wasn't the greatest as I wasn't really having fun with some of the champions I do good with, but had fun with some of the champions I knew very little about. I've lost 2 ranks because of very poor teamwork efforts from teammates and unfortunately 3 AFK/Disconnecting teammates.

In this particular game where I was vs a Kayn, we were up to a good start, we had a tahm vs a garen in top and ganking top first was my first priority because if we get tahm to get an advantage top shouldn't be much of a problem for a while. However, my first attempt ganking Tahm was horrendous, he did not respond to my ping and I ended up 1v1ing garen until he ran to his turret, the second gank I spam pinged that I was coming top, and again, there was a slow response in attacking him and a huge delay in him taking action, after that, I knew top was hopeless and that I should be ganking other lanes.

Mid was winning, velkoz vs a malza, velkoz had picked up a few kills, however malza was playing very safe and very rarely did he overextend making ganks against him difficult, however I did try pull off a few ganks, nothing troublesome in mid.

Bot, Our Vayne ended up 1/12.. and the 1 kill being a kill I let her have, I unintentionally stole 2 other kills due to my red buff but she wasn't that far behind at that time. Right after top, I prioritised bot as I believed it was manageable, yet again, there was quite a delay with vayne, although yuumi was doing very well and would assist me anytime I came for a gank.

My start was really good, I was 6/2 in the mid-game with a lot of damage potential, however, top was impossible to gank as there was no hope 1v1ing a fed garen, and bot became more dangerous as time went on, I tried to cc as much I could so my team could do some damage or pick some kills up but we were already far behind.

What bothers me is that Kayn was absent for pretty much most of the game until late. There were no ganks from Kayn until maybe 15minutes into the game (Just a guess) and spent most of his time farming his jungle, so there was very little competition/pressure from the enemy jungle and yet we still lost 2 of our lanes..

I am nowhere near a good player, I've still got a lot to learn but I'd really like to avoid such losing streaks in future, are there any suggestions or advice in which I could counter-act such situations?

6 Comments

Thingamajig6/25/2019, 9:31:29 PM2 votes

Step 1: Open Tab Step 2: Figure out which lane you have that should technically win on it's own Step 3: Figure out which lane you have that has easy straight forward engage Step 4: Figure out if that lane will be getting pushed in or pushing in You will want to hover or dive depending on Step 4 Step 5: Play EXCLUSIVELY around that 1 lane or maximum that 1 lane and Mid Step 6: If your SIvir soraka start begging for ganks on the Draven braum you should full mute them and continue with the established plan from Step 1 to 6

A lane that wins on it's own can destroy the game outright if it gets the camp as well. This is how you win with jungle NEVER and i mean NEVER play around your weak side

The thigh guy6/25/2019, 9:34:02 PM1 votes

Tbh. If you have no winning lanes as a jungler. You May as well just give up.

You honestly have no solo impact. It’s sad but it’s true. Cause remember. 1 kill is not just 300 gold.

It’s 300 gold + 320 turret plate gold + minions + xp.

Demented Lemur6/26/2019, 8:04:44 AM1 votes

Never gank a lane thats already far behind. Always try to snowball the winning lane so they can roam and help other lanes.

But also make sure the winning lane could have won on their own nothing worst then you getting someone ahead who doesnt know how to maintain a lead or push a lead and roam