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karthus jungle is kind of like singed top in a few ways. and heres what i mean
as singed top, your goal is pretty much to be farming enemy minions without interacting much with your enemy. and you run away when they chase you and you have movement speed power in your kit to give you running power
but basically as singed top, when you look at the "goals" of it. basically your goal is just afk farming enemy minions to level 16 (which comes at around 26 minutes). then at level 16 you group up and start teamfighting. and singeds teamfight is very strong in the lategame (it offers alot of power to your team). so even though your enemy was also free farming (because as singed top, you sort of let your enemy freefarm at the cost of yourself also getting freefarm), and even though you and your enemy top both have equal gold / exp / items / levels . it doesnt matter. its ok because singed is very strong in lategame teamfights, so in the lategame it is a even fight between singeds team and the other team. both singed and the enemy toplaner are powerful, and it becomes a test of skill between both teams in who will win
so that is the "goal" of singed top pretty much. farm, get level 16, then teamfight and take inhibs
karthus jungle is kind of the same in many ways. as karthus jungle, you dont want to gank, you just want to powerfarm your jungle monsters to level 16. then after level 16, you are super strong and you provide alot of power to a teamfight. and you teamfight and win teamfights and get inhibs. that is the "goal" with karthus jungle, you afk farm to level 16, then win teamfights and take inhibs.
lategame karthus is so powerful in teamfights (with items / gold / levels) and your level 16 is such a strong powerspike. when i was using karthus i felt it was super strong and the only issue is the toplaner would suck sometimes (since karthus doesnt gank. so the toplaner is fighting a 1v2). and since karthus jungle is very easy to do, i want to try it where i go top and i have my friend do karthus jungle
things i learned about karthus jungle
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basically before level 16, your just farming your jungle nonstop. you can hit lvl16 at around 26 minutes if you just powerfarm your jungle. the new jungle changed camp respawn times, however after testing it i think the overall exp/gold you get from the jungle is the same in season 6 and season 7. in season 7 jungle you can get lvl16 around 26 minutes by just powerfarming your jungle. and that time was about the same in season 6 too
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ill show you the early jungle paths real quick in a custom before we play
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given the new jungle. its kind of complicated. so keep in mind that the camps have a 150 second spawn time. and try to remember the order you killed the camps so you can predict whats spawning next to farm it. try to keep farming camps when they spawn to max your gold/exp
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if the enemy jungler is good. he will be invading you. if you get invaded, just run away, let him take your stuff go to your other jungle side and do camps. because the enemy will invade, that means the "order" you do camps will change during the game. so try to remember the camps you did and the order, so you can hit them when they respawn. you wanna hit all the camps on respawn to max your gold/exp
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never do skuttle crab ever . karthus is terrible at killing skuttles. just let your teammates kill them
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ingame type when you reach lvl5 "yo guys. if you need my ult type R please. hard for me to watch everything every second"
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also. when farming with karthus jungle. remember to never use your autos. it tempting to do, but it slows down your speed. just spam Q nonstop when farming, and that gives you the fastest speed
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oh but remember. you actually DO want to use your autos a little before level 3. when your doing camps at level 1-3, you can throw in a few autos with your Q's to save mana. but after level 3 you just spam Q
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also. on using E during farming. heres the plan for using E. use E if you are over 80% mana. and dont use E if your under 80% mana. however, when during birds, just use E pretty much the whole time. you want to kill birds ASAP
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also. about birds. the path i will show will always make you do birds when you have smite. when doing birds just QE and smite the big bird right away. the big bird will almost die in 1 smite
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after your level 4. heres the "smite plan". pretty much you only use smite if you have 2 charges, which allows you to save a smite for birds. you always want to have a smite ready for birds, so you smite other camps if you have 2 charges
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also. a tricky part about karthus jungle is knowing if its safe to do your buffs. i will control this ingame for now. i will provide you the early path, and after you do the early path i want you to ONLY farm the small camps and you do not do your REDS/BLUES unless i tell you to do it. i will judge if its safe to do red/blue and i will whisper you commands ingame (i type fast)