[Quick Question(s)] Jungle Decision Making

MrBuffington··1 votes·90 views

Just had a quick question(s), since I'm kind of a new jungler.

So I was playing Wukong on purple side vs. a Rammus (Had to pull this match history from Summoner Caoil's match history, since for some reason this game isn't listed on mine. She played Thresh, and did really well I might add). I started blue, went wolves, and my top lane pinged that they warded my red, so I (like I usually do) face checked my red side bush and sure enough, there was a Rammus sitting there. Why a Rammus would go for a lvl 2 invade on a Wukong, I have no idea (maybe there's a legitimate reason, but I don't know what that reason would be), but we danced around for a bit trading a little damage and I decided, since he was just sticking around, to ward my red and go do my wraiths. My thinking was: If he decides to stick around (which he did for a while), he's just wasting time, meanwhile I'm just farming wraiths so I don't lose any time, and if he goes for my red I can easily make it back to contest. Was this a good decision to make? He left soon after and I just went back and did my Red.

Even with this time Rammus wasted, I was still behind like half a level (he was lvl 4 when I was ~3.75), I don't know why but I always end up a little behind as Wukong, maybe I'm not picking good jungle paths (I try not to walk past dead camps) or maybe I'm not soaking lane experience (I didn't see any easy gank opportunities after I hit lvl 3-4, we had a Ryze mid pushing in a Xerath, Olaf vs a Nidalee top who is really hard to gank, and my bot lane Lucian/Thresh was pushing vs Fidd/Varus, so I farmed another camp or two and backed, idk). Also I never ganked for Olaf; I figured I wouldn't be able to do much vs. Nidalee, plus Olaf was up ~20+ CS on her most of the game. Should I have snowballed that lead harder, or was it okay to gank bot/mid/work for dragons more? Thanks!

2 Comments

Worgslarg1 votes

"we had a Ryze mid pushing in a Xerath" ..... how the hell...

All joking aside, if one lane is a little ahead, you want to help the ones that are behind. if one is nightmarishly behind, you need to get the others fed so it's a game of their fed carries vs our fed carries.

If you were someone that had a decent amount of cc( like amumu) ganking top once would have been decent, as nidalee would have trouble running if you landed your bandage toss

MrBuffington1 votes

Lol ikr, when I checked Ryze had Xerath farming under turret. No idea how this happened; I was planning on ganking mid first but I didn't see an opportunity so I just kept farming. It was a normal game, our Ryze seemed pretty good and the Xerath seemed a bit new to the champ, so that may have had something to do with it (there was also one point where Xerath just walked past me when I was stealing Rammus' red. He didn't even notice me, it was hilarious.)

Thanks for the help though!

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