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Is Camping Mid The Optimal Strategy In The New Jungle?

Shadow Gilgamesh··2 votes·1,063 views

So I've been playing the S5 preseason jungle and I noticed myself camping mid a lot more than the old jungle. The new camp timers seem to really favor the jungler camping mid over the other lanes, and provides a disincentive to ganking the other lanes. If I go to top or bot (especially bot with the supports sightstone) and get caught by a ward, my walk is typically all the way to wolfs for bot or wraiths for top, instead of the old jungle having one of the camps up or almost up on a side after you go for a gank to the outer lanes.

Has anyone else felt this? I'm relatively new to jungling, but it really feels like it pays off to get me and my mid lane carry kills where if I don't make the play it's a short walk, over trying to feed my ADC or a top laner where failing multiple times can really put me behind. I've found this to be true with all my usual junglers: Vi, Nocturn, Wukong, and Warwick.

Obviously helping bot lane if they get a down couple kills or going in to help a top lane who keeps getting poked out of lane is still worth trying, but if everything is going about fair in all the lanes, I've got a camper van parked on midlane, and only go top or bot when they're REALLY overextended.

5 Comments

Renaille3 votes

camping bot is the best strategy assuming all lanes are pushed equally.

ujf2qEqxi91 votes

Go watch the end of last season. The changes made to the jungle are a direct response to the support chasing the jungle around for the first 5 minutes of the game.

Saevum1 votes

Nah.

Just try to take out the enemy most "aggressive" laner. If its not the enemy mid laner, you'll find yourself camping other lanes than mid.

Skia Asteri1 votes

I find it impractical to camp lanes other than mid in the sense that I stay fairly close waiting for a chance to gank, as there are more easily accessible camps to farm near it.

Hullabaloo9071 votes

Bottom is probably has the highest reward for ganking, because you might get two kill, and you can usually take dragon or the tower. Mid is pretty nice to gank because a fed mid helps makes games easy. Top is the worst to gank after the first few levels, because they might go for dragon while your top, and top laners are usually hard to kill after they get there first item. There are other factors, like how pushed the lanes are or where the enemy jungler is, but this is the basic flow of it.

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