Things a bronze jungler should know?

NuggeTech·1/10/2018, 5:35:34 PM·1 votes·1,335 views

Hey guys! With the new season coming up in a few days, I wanted to be ready for it. I used to play support in the previous season but now I have started to jungle. I have been playing jungle exclusively this entire pre season, and I do think I have improved considerably. But I feel that I am still missing something and my teammates can’t help as they are busy insulting each other.

So I wanted to ask you guys, what should a low elo jungle know besides the basics stuff. If you want to yo can check out my profile and tell me what I’ve done wrong, what was done right, what should be improved and what should not be taken into consideration. The jungles I play are Rammus, Evelynn, Sejuani and Vi

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12 Comments

Lanyr1/10/2018, 6:30:25 PM2 votes

Mute all at the beginning of the game. I’ve managed to climb up to plat through the jungle and games feel much better when you can ignore the flame that comes with jungling. Learn lane matchups, which lane will be easiest to gank (does your lane add dps or cc?) You want to help your weak lanes but focus your strong ones and through them take objectives and snowball to make up for the lead lost in the weak ones. I would say don’t tax or ruin the wave however in bronze there is little to no wave management so I don’t think it’s as important. Stay with your team and play around objectives. You make the decision when to go, especially with ram and sej.

Ping lots, place lots of wards

Good luck!

AlienPrimate1/10/2018, 6:06:46 PM1 votes

The most obvious thing I see from something that only shows builds is exactly that. You need to look at your enemies when deciding what to build. A game that really stands out is the 41:48 loss on Rammus yesterday. The enemies were Teemo (magic), Lux (magic), Nautilus (magic), Warwick (hybrid), and Miss Fortune (physical with some magic). Even though the majority of the enemy's damage was magic, you still went ninja tabi and thornmail first items on Rammus just like every other game. Build paths shouldn't be decided by the champion you are playing. It should be decided by the champions on the other team. As it turned out, Teemo did 61k damage and Miss Fortune who was the only one you were counter building only did 29k damage.

VeganScout1/10/2018, 6:09:38 PM1 votes

Dont play stuff that s not for your skill cap like lee sin or kindred start with easy junglers to understand jungle like rammus or warwick.

Care for your team

Demon King Maou1/10/2018, 6:46:17 PM1 votes

Just mute all at start of game you'll thank everyone that reccomended this at the start of your games

Schenix1/10/2018, 6:50:29 PM1 votes

Don't want to give you too much to ruminate on. There isn't a ton of specialization required for decent performance. Exceptional great performance requires a chess game of detail.

Keep track of where the enemy jungler began, usually easy to tell with which lane comes in late
Use this, to path or countergank. Early leads, or denying them, is very beneficial
Counterjungling based on pathing helps as well. Make sure to deep ward.
Always get a Control Ward.
If they flash, it's worth; don't overextend yourself.
If one of your lanes is falling behind, take objectives like dragon or turret(s), or counterjungle and wait.
3 player bot lane turret dives are nice if they work.
Type out what you would ping. Lower elo tends to love chat more than pings. But that is it, no other chatting.
My philosophy is: both junglers are out to kill me. Yours should be, both laners are out to kill me. Play accordingly.
Don't be hesitant to use flash early. It removes it from another player most likely, and they won't have it to escape your next gank, or to help their own gank. If it nets a kill, even better. Be wary of the other jungler or mid coming for you.

RookPusher1/10/2018, 6:54:40 PM1 votes

As a bronze player, here's what I'm going to advise based on my experience:

Do not assume anyone in lane is going to help you. If they do, great. But don't be surprised.
Pings, typing, checking of mana - basically anything you do isn't necessarily going to be seen, so don't go into these things without having an escape plan.
Gank early if you have the kit. No one is prepped for it.
Teams warding is binary. Either that team is going to have a lot or none.
Taking Ghost Poro, while not helpful for you, does give your ganked lanes some advantage
I tend to prefer tankier junglers like Amumu because it gives your allies more reaction time, and CC works wonders.
Your job is to make sure carry-champs get fed. Don't worry about kills, or who is sucking. If you have a Garen Top Lane, get him fed.
Speaking of Top Lane, handing it to your team gives you a massive leg-up. Remember Bronze is flamesville and if you help him take a tower in the first 15 minutes, that typically tilts them into oblivion.

Based on a comment it sounds like you don't recover well from set-backs, to that end open up positively and make attempts on ganks as much as you can. Being seen in Bronze counts for a lot.

Verxint1/10/2018, 5:46:40 PM1 votes

It's always hard to make a judgement just from op.gg, but you do seem to have one thing common among bronze and silver players - you do fine when ahead, but don't seem to know what to do when behind. I can't say exactly why just from these stats, but learning to make good decisions when behind turns a lot of losses into wins. People in bronze will throw so much you'd think it was an MLB pitcher tryout.

ClickerKiller3/28/2018, 12:13:38 AM1 votes

Learn which champs are late and which early game and also some matchups. Prevent counterpicks from snowballing.