As a jungle main, I play the same 2-3 junglers every game so my path hardly ever changes unless invaded or invading.
Do different types of junglers have different paths or is there one OP path that everyone can take? Can't believe I never asked this before.
roughvan2 votesObviously they do, depending on the champion.
First clear is the most important as you are at your weakest, some junglers are low on health after they are done, others can't clear all camps and shouldn't even attempt wolves/krugs and so on.
If you play Hecarim and you start red, you can do wolves right after and it is actually really beneficial to do them as obviously you won't start with machete because you won't lose any health there. In that same situation, if you start red as jarvan, its possible to attempt level 2 cheese gank or do krugs and try to get scuttle after.
Note: as hecarim, you need to be careful to not lose your first/second blue to enemy jungler as your q eats your mana, taking red is fine as long as scuttles are warded, where junglers would obviously path if they want to invade.
Any of these are not 100% what you should be doing every game, as each game is situational based on champions, counters, how lanes are pushed. So you know if you can do scuttle or not.
Most jungle champions have something unique about their pathing you should do about the clear as currently the meta sucks for us junglers. Most of the jungle players just try to gank as much as possible and put pressure in lanes because of the exp nerfs,laners are level 6 when you are 4 so if you don't pull off a gank early on, its not easy to gank a level 6 laner when you don't have ultimate, before it would be very beneficial to just do full clear on many champions, now you shouldn't attempt that in most situations.
When you are lvl 8-9, mid is lvl 11..
TheUrbanKitsune1 votesNot a jungle player myself, but from what I understand generally there is a 'most efficient' route for racking up jungle xp, but some champions who have a harder/easier time clearing specific camps can deviate from that a bit.
For example-- Kayn. Not sure if this is still relevant but for a long time he started raptors rather than a buff because he could take them level 1 with no leash while taking a minimal amount of damage.
EDIT: The comment above makes a good point that farm heavy junglers aren't even very strong right now so it's usually best to not full clear and just gank when you see an opportunity.
Super Sandmanne1 votesYou should change up your clear almost every game tbh. Especially if you're invading. Proper flexible clearing can get you 3/4 of the first buffs without even fighting the enemy jungler, but you should only do that against a jungler that has weak early ganks because 90% of the time when their red is gone people just gank top, and most rando laners aren't prepared for a level 2 gank.
