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How do you JG when 2+ lanes are behind?

Curious Kat·11/3/2018, 12:47:50 AM·1 votes·1,027 views

When 2+ of the lanes die damn near simultaneously early on before you even reach 3. I'm not a fan of early gank champs, or meta boring broken champs. I usually have to hit at least 3, on the few jg champs i have before i can pull off a double buff gank. Eve is probably my only level 2 ganker i can pull off. But even then, that requires a really good setup perfect time, perfect place, responsive laner responding to my ping.

But more times than not, 2 of our 3 lanes dies before i even reach 3. Then it goes into a repetitious cycle of, no matter where i go, the other lane will die in that time. I'll go gank bot, because they are pushed into turret, easy kill, i'll give the kill over to the adc if i can. But in that time top dies again, or mid dies. So i'll go back to one of those lanes and try to gank, and you guessed it, bot dies again... Or where ever I'm not.

So what ends up happening so many fucking times, is no matter where i go, another lane dies, and i lose farm and end up getting a 1-2 level difference of the other jungler just fucking afk farming because he isn't needed in ANY of his lanes, as his laners are doing fine by themselves. I lose that farm and level advantage purely because i am literally being constantly pinged to gank for people back to back to back because they won't stop dying. I then lose JG pressure, and start losing camps, resulting in more exp lost.

Like i said, this is just pure laning losses. They aren't even getting ganked. They are just losing their laning phase. And i always ALWAYS ALWAAAAAYS get 2 fucking lanes that lose their damn lane phase.

So again, i end up losing farm, level advantage, and can't do jack shit at the end because i spent too much time ganking constantly, for nothing. Sure they get a kill, but they just die the moment I'm not there again... If i go top to gank, bot or mid dies. If i go mid, top or bot dies. If i go bot, mid or top dies. ETC ETC ETC ETC.

So how the fuck does one jungle in that kind of situation? What are you supposed to do, and how can you pull out a damn win, when 2 fucking lanes die every minute they are alive, and you can't baby sit them both simultaneously? OR is there really just nothing you can do... Because it seems there is nothing i can do. If one lane is behind, that's fine, i can baby sit that lane and get them ahead again. But if 2+ are behind, i spend my whole time going back and forth for naught.

3 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon11/3/2018, 12:57:30 AM1 votes

First, assess which lanes are salvageable. If the lane is an early-game one, don't waste time trying to bring it even (unless it's just like 1 kill behind, then yeah save it). If it's not, try to salvage it if you can. If you can't, move on to another one. If at all possible, salvage bot because it's usually the latest-scaling lane in the game.

If you can't salvage any lane, try to get the winning lane to help you save one. You don't have to get the losing lane the kill (although it'd be best to do so), just set the opponent behind enough that the laner can fight them.

If you can't do any of that, just try to set their jg as far behind as you can, and get as many objectives as possible. Try to look for picks wherever they exist (because your goal at this point is not to get someone fed, but to set the opponent as far behind as you can), and of course keep looking to get drakes and herald.

It's tough, but it's possible.

SmallCheeseCake11/3/2018, 6:18:25 PM1 votes

You're nearly completely screwed tbh...

ROYALR3IGN11/3/2018, 8:03:11 PM1 votes

Make the best of your situation, play for late. Get yourself fed if you're playing an assassin and pressure the fk out of the solo lanes, but keep track of the enemy jg when you do so you don't' get counter ganked. Camp the lane thats the closest in terms of gold. Or camp the lane that has the highest potential damage output if you're a tank. Deep wards in the enemy jg can stop snowballing.