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Laner PSA: How to Prepare Your Lane for a Gank

RainblowCupcakes··12 votes·2,389 views

Gold jungler here, with tips that some players need in order to ensure that when their jungler ganks, it succeeds.

  1. Let your jungler know you want a gank! Letting your jungler know you want/need a gank will put you high up on their priority list. Don't blame your jungler for not ganking if they've been ganking other lanes.
  2. Let your team know about wards! Saying "ward in river" will let your jungler know where it is, when it dies, and whether or not it's safe to gank. Not to mention it allows ganks from alternate routes to be much more effective and surprising to the enemy.
  3. Announce when the enemy uses defensive spells When the enemy uses Flash/Ghost/Heal/Barrier/Cleanse/Exhaust, your jungler will be much more likely to gank the enemy while they have a disadvantage.
  4. If you don't want a gank, tell your jungler! It's a waste of everybody's time if the jungler shows up to gank, and waits 10 seconds for you to tell them to leave. Communication is key.
  5. Use your pings! If you want your jungler to help push the tower after a gank, target ping the tower. If you want them to screw off after a gank, retreat ping them. Communicate your intentions clearly and the jungler will understand.
  6. Announce the enemy junglers position! If the enemy jungler is spotted at top lane, make sure your jungler at bot lane knows. They can turn this knowledge into a safe dragon or counter jungle.
  7. Stay Aware! If your jungler shows up to gank, make sure you notice and follow up their gank with your own cc/damage. Most junglers announce their ganks via pinging and team chat.

12 Comments

flibitydoo8 votes
  1. Do not push the daylights out of your lane! This forces the gank to become a tower dive (which can work, but can backfire way more often). It also pulls the enemy jungler towards your lane as they will be more inclined to show up to either gank you, countergank the dive or cover the lane while their teammate recalls. A 2 v 2 under tower tends to favour the duo with the tower (in early and mid game). Note that pretty much all junglers will never towerdive an enemy who is at full health as it tends to result in a 1 for 1 which doesn't achieve much in the long run.
Mr Borg2 votes

For some reason this applies to top laners must often. If you push all game and flame me for not ganking I'm probably not going to help much unless it's the most obvious gank imaginable. Partly because you make me not like you while bot and mid have been typing "ty :D" every gank. But more importantly you're showing me that 1) you don't play jungle and 2) you don't know how ganks work, so I'm not going to believe you know how to take advantage of it. And no, just because you were pushed under tower for thirty seconds doesn't mean I'm going to sprint across the map to save you. My world doesn't revolve around you.

One last thing. If their jungler is setting up a tent top, good. Your job is to not feed and cs as much as you can. Unless I happen to be in the area, I'm not helping much. I'll be bot getting the carries fed and taking every drag.

SeargentAnus5 votes

Right before the gank is happening. Walk on the opposite side of where your jungler is sitting. Your lane opponent will naturally walk toward where your jungler is making the gank much smoother.

You can act extremely aggressive the next few minutes after the gank if they lack vision. Make it seem as if they're being camped by your jungler.

Clomph2 votes

Thankyou for posting this.. You should also make one for Junglers

Like:

  1. Let whoever has a stun (or any form of CC) engage
  2. Be on the same side of the minions as the enemy, or ready to flash in
  3. etc.
IceKingChernobog1 votes

This needs to be a thing!

SexyTaylorSwift1 votes

If only this were true, I wouldn't hate to jungle.

DSRM Mobius2 votes

jungle isn't bad even if your teammates are not that cooperative being a good jungler is too know where to gank at the right time and having a plan to clearing the jungle

AmazingGoat1 votes

Great list. Thanks for the helpful advice!

NewGrange1 votes

sticky this thread mods, please.

TeemoHunter13371 votes

i hate it when im a zed. and vi sits in the bush 2 minutes for me to initiate, when the enemy is still pushed up. and yeeh i was pinging the overpushed enemy with no flash while vi counter pings me and tells me to initiate which is bad choice.

if i go in i have no CC.this enemy will run back causing the gank to fail.if vi goes in she can use Q to smack them or use ult while i can back her up.

tainteddaze1 votes

be nice if the stupid junglers gank in general instead of going 20mins without ganking a single lane

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