Dear Junglers

Sun Wukong Sun··8 votes·638 views

Those cute little yellow thingies you have in the number 4 item slot. Those are called wards, you should use them to help your mid laner survive early game.

Bottom lane should never need assistance with warding. Blue top should never need assist with warding. When I'm red top, I normally drop a pink in the tribush and use my yellows for river.

The only time I need help warding is when I'm mid. 4 locations the enemy jungler can come from and end up behind me even if I'm not pushed into the enemy turret.

15 Comments

Communist Toast5 votes

maybe the mid should put down those little yellow things to survive

JamesTheMage172 votes

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maybe the mid should put down those little yellow things to survive

Ikr? They have their own... And only two bushes...

jaymc11305 votes

Its sad to see this post has downvotes of any sort when its one of the best pieces of advice for lower level jungler players to hear. Its completely accurate and when I, as a diamond player, play jungle, I always drop pinks and yellows in the side bushes for the river for my mid laner as long as that tier one turret is up. Not only will it help prevent your mid laner from suffering repeated ganks, but it also provides vision of the opposing mid laner when they want to roam, a double whammy of strategic importance.

All the +1s.

Angry Monster1 votes

you can tell the unranked and bronze from the other ranked players. Starting with your post. A jungler can do so much more than guard the mid laner. When did the jungler becomes 2nd support?

That said i tend to use my pinks for river control and if the mid laner had 2 brain cells could figure out how to use that to secure a side of the river to play towards.

This thread is -1 cause of how stupid it is

jaymc11305 votes

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you can tell the unranked and bronze from the other ranked players. Starting with your post. A jungler can do so much more than guard the mid laner. When did the jungler becomes 2nd support?

Well you certainly cant.

My known accounts:

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=likeamaws, Master season 4, diamond 1 most of the time, currently falling :(

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=ev3carriesu, a Plat 1 one trick account for learning to jungle properly last season

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=polygon+symphony, Random smurf I use to play with low level players and test things, decayed from plat 2 at the moment, but it cant fall any lower at the moment.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Second+Chance+Hero, Another random smurf for playing with low level players.

Meanwhile you:

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=angry+monster

Never been above gold. Wonder why? Probably because you ignore useful advice like this, even when it comes from diamond players.

Would you like to continue to stick your foot in your mouth? Or would you agree now that this is probably a situation where you made a mistake and can possibly learn something from a much superior player?

Edit: I should probably also include some useful and constructive debate as well now that I think about it so I'll address the issue of a jungler being the "second support".

Duh. That's always been the case. In pro play and in high level play for 6 years this has always been the case. The jungler IS the second support. Why do you think pro junglers always buy SS on junglers? They are the second role for which strategic decisions and team coordination are most important. Yes, a jungler can certainly be more than a ward bot and will need to be in order to have success. But part of that success comes from achiving a junglers primary goal and purpose of controlling the map at all points in time for any given game. One of the best ways to control the map is with vision, and since much of the vision tools were heavily nerfed this season its all the MORE important for a jungler to excel in this regard. In fact vision is so hampered that I made this post about it 6 months ago: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/9H4KqONg-please-for-the-love-of-god-bring-back-stealth-wards-in-the-shop

The removal of so many vision tools has lead directly to aiding in the snowball meta we currently see. The best way to stop a snowball is to have good information to act on. The best way to have good information to act on is to have good vision. Help your team out by properly warding important areas of the map in the early and mid game stages, protect your laners, (not just mid lane, although they are the most vulnerable) and protect your lead and strategic advantage in game by preventing your teammates from acting improperly with too little information.

Live and learn mate. Live and learn.

Angry Monster1 votes

bs

jaymc11302 votes

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bs

Remain a low level player then. Its your choice. I can only lead you to the water. Not force you to drink it.

MunchCrunchLunch2 votes

I help ward any lane early game. I understand that the cd is too long and they can only ward once. but when i play mid. I play safe until I have 2 wards. and anyway a lot of times ganks happen from around the edge of river so its really hard to have complete vision with just 1 pink ward and 2 wards

jaymc11301 votes

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I help ward any lane early game. I understand that the cd is too long and they can only ward once. but when i play mid. I play safe until I have 2 wards. and anyway a lot of times ganks happen from around the edge of river so its really hard to have complete vision with just 1 pink ward and 2 wards

Excellent habit to be in. Way to be a proper teammate, well done.

TheThundersRoar1 votes

Actually I use sweepers, and it works wonders.

Thanks, though.

Darkslayer851 votes

[{quoted}](name=Irelia Wukong,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=sKRapTG8,comment-id=,timestamp=2016-06-05T22:59:05.892+0000)

Those cute little yellow thingies you have in the ~ item slot.

Default: 1234567

My Setup: 123~4T5

Sariat11 votes

What's this "ward" device you speak of? I'm Plat 4 and I've never seen one in my life.

Doctor Jarvis1 votes

As a mid laner you can still pink+yellow and play safe/safer when flash is down. Your jungler should be warding to see where the enemy jungler is/keeping a jungler prone to invades out of theirs. These strats tend to assist a perceptive mid laner, though the jungler should probably be pinging these things out.

Narvuntien1 votes

I am using those wards to keep track of dragon and putting it into my opponents jungle so I can keep track of them. I have sort of a "lane" opponent I also have to track. By tracking them I will know when its safe for me to gank and when I can counter gank.

item 1409 as a tank jungler, typically I am in the habit of buying this and switching to the sweeper.

Takazaki1 votes

mines on T

if you can figure out which champ made em do that i will personally send you a single cookie

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