Best jungle champions for newbies?

Blessed By RNG··2 votes·28,992 views

Hi, I'm silver atm and want to play more jungle but don't know what champions i can play, i dont want to play hard champs like lee sin or elise, i would like some junglers that have healthy clears, easy to play and good ganks!

Anyone have suggestions? i want 3 or more

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FooDang4 votes

Warwick

ùMUSTDIE1 votes

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HaIlMonitor3 votes

Rammus, sej, and WW

HenzoAF3 votes

Graves Easy and Healthy Jungle Clear with AoE and Knockback MasterYi Easy Clear, Great Late Game, Simple Mechanics Warwick Easy and Healthy Jungle Clear with Sustain, Also, Great CC and Tankiness

woodvsmurph3 votes

Master yi - to be great, it takes some skill with q-timing so you can dodge enemy abilities, but even without this, he's still good.

Xin - easy ganks, good at pretty much all points of the game. Some nice sustain even without lifesteal. You do need early tiamat if you want to farm raptors and krugs, but otherwise his jungle clear is easy with just starting item.

*Do not build full damage on these champs. A) unnecessary B) leaves you very squishy, so engaging at the wrong time is more easily punished C) you probably have to be a frontliner for your team. I recommend 1-2 damage items into 1-2 resistance items, then a final damage item. Depends on if enemy team is fed and has burst damage. Like if there's a fed malz or annie, building an mr+hp item after bloodrazor is way better than building bortk second item - because annie will kill you before you can make use of the lifesteal.

Warwick - similar to xin. Builds tankier, but still decent damage. Also multiple forms of cc which is great.

Cho'gath... no explanation needed other than - start e. Raptors is perfect first camp with him and the best first camp to do if possible for a jungler.

Gragas - takes a few games to learn your damage and how to ult to split up enemy team, but that's it. Otherwise pretty straightforward and solid pick.

Also - know what the purpose of jungle is. Getting laners ahead without costing your own relevance - not hard farming and trying to solo carry. The xp just isn't set up for that right now, plus it's low elo - leaving teammates to fend for themselves for 20 min means they are likely to feed and quit or not try their best. Even if you are a jungler who wants level 6 before you gank (noc, ww, sej), try to gank at least once or twice before lvl 6. Don't force stuff that's not there, but if an enemy is pushed, even getting some nice chunk damage on them to give your laner an advantage in hp is appreciated and useful.

If you only have 1 tank/frontliner, it's especially important that the enemy DOES NOT get to camp them and put them behind. If you allow this, you have 0 protection for your carries - so make sure to gank/counter-gank for them early and often as needed to ensure they have a good game. Look at cs, lvls, and stuff too - not just kda when deciding where to gank. A lane that has been camped for 10 straight minutes and is 0/2/0, but ahead in cs and even in levels is actually not a horrible lane to counter-gank for. The whole of the stats shows that it literally takes a 2v1 to kill them - meaning you making it a 2v2 probably gets you an even trade or better - and your laner will begin to pull ahead since they are farming better and have equal levels even before getting help from you. On the flip side - if a lane is feeding horribly, down significantly in level/xp and cs - do not gank for them regardless of if they were feeding 2v2, 1v1, 1v2, etc. This will only put you behind and give you unfavorable trades - look to punish by ganking other lanes.

Consider your laners. Gank when the opportunity presents itself. If an enemy and your teammate are both low and you are nearby - gank NOW - not after doing one more camp. Waiting means your ally probably dies - either 1v1, or to an enemy jungler beating you to the punch. Or best case scenario - the enemy laner just recalls and you miss an opportunity. If your ally has a wave pushing into them - don't go and take cs while they are basing or dead. If your teammate can make it top in time to catch the wave at or just outside their tower, it will help them a ton. If it's pushing to their opponent and you CAN SAFELY do so - shove it to tower and reset the wave for them. Considering when to leave their cs alone and when to push it in can mean lane freezes to help them (and set up easy ganks for you), denying such freezes by their opponents, or if you screw it up - the opposite. There's multiple paths into enemy lanes to gank them. Too many junglers only try ganks through the river - even when they are pinged it is warded. Lane gank through friendly tower, through enemy jungle, through enemy tower are also options. Finally in this regards - listen to your laners. If they ping you NOT to gank, there's a reason for it. Like maybe they realize you can't win the 2v1 or they know the enemy jungler is already hiding on your path to lane, or they just used all their abilities and can't engage for a few seconds, or there's a giant minion wave they need to clear so you don't die to minions in an attempt to kill the enemy laner. It doesn't mean they never want you to gank - just not right now.

Know your matchups going into the game. Will the enemy jungler look to farm early, invade your jungle, or gank lanes a lot? How will they do this (strategies)? What about each of your lanes - do they win/lose/go even? Do they push? Are they easily ganked if they don't have backup? Same for enemy lanes. Where can you most easily combo your abilities with those of a teammate to look for kills. Where did the enemy jungler probably start - look to what enemies are late to lane. I know it's a lot of stuff, but keeping even some of these in mind and making them habit will help you be a great jungler and not just a guy/girl filling the jungle role. This isn't a complete list of stuff to keep track of, but it's a good start.

420 grams2 votes

Warwick. He has natural sustain and his ganks are easy and effective. Very easy to snowball with and still functions well as a tank late game. He's great at killing epic monsters and since he rushes Tiana, his clear is pretty nice. If you have a lane that got their opponent to half health, you get the ms buff to move around the map quickly.

Tr4shB4NSYST3M2 votes

Warwick Nunu XinZhao Amumu. To all the people suggesting snowbally champs like MasterYi and Rengar thats not a great idea for a beginner in the jg b/c if these champs get behind they have a much tougher time being useful.

NoPaxt1 votes

Maokai Sejuani Jax Shen

A Dominatrix1 votes

ww, nunu, yi, ramus, xin are all pretty easy and don't require much effort. ive gotten mastery 7 on four and m5 on yi.

zeoman881 votes

For newbies I recommend Master Yi, and Warwick

Spideraxe1 votes

Warwick hands down

Metro Man1 votes

Rammus

Kloqdq1 votes

Warwick is by far the best Jungler for anyone just starting out. He is fun, really strong, has a lot of room to grow, and is capable of teaching you everything you need to know how to do as a jungler.

Other Junglers like Yi or Shyanna while good, teach junglers really bad habits that unless you have a fair amount of game knowledge, only harms you.

Maokai is a staple jungler for tanks and you really can't go wrong with him. Easy to play and all-round good. Rek'sai is also a pretty good jungler if you want to be more aggressive.

PopcornBunni1 votes

Warwick Bloodscent makes up for new players' lower map awareness by suggesting a path to targets, has infinite jungle sustain thanks to his passive

Amumu Good but not infinite sustain, Q lets you get between camps extremely quickly and is one of the longest-range gank tools in the game

Just me personally, but current (pre-rework) Evelynn is very linient with her ganking thanks to her stealth, and her extremely flexible itemization makes her able to fill any jungle specification. Maybe try learning her after getting use to the role itself to see how much easier the stealth makes a lot of things.

Don't listen to people suggesting Yi. He has a really hard time early levels and requires proper E timing to clear efficiently as well as knowing when to use Q to dodge predicted shots.

gabetheguy1 votes

MY RIGHT ARM IS A LOT STRONGER THAN MY LEFT ARM

SGSEpicConquerer1 votes

Maokai is good with his passive and early items

Honesty1 votes

Hey, Take this comment with a grain of salt as i am also new but.

Master Yi - He was (and still is) one of my favourite champs.

His Q allows you to easily provide damage and with a little practice you can dodge ults easily (e.g Lux's beam of light)

His W means you can afford to experiment with potions if you dont know correct situations or when to use potions.

His E is just basically a strong auto good for clearing camps a little faster and doing a little more damage to champs.

His R is good for drake and also for taking out champs easily that are on mid-ranged health retreating to their base or chasing down an ally.

His mechanics are also incredibly simple and you can pretty much pick them up and go but still allow room for improvement and mastery.

While a new Master Yi player may be good a main Master Yi can destroy any in their path.

ùMUSTDIE1 votes

Sejuani Rengar Rammus Warwick MasterYi With thesummoner 4 andsummoner 11 spells

CurS1VE1 votes

HecarimKarthus Taliyah

sorry i had something typed out but i messed up

for starters the easiest way to gank a lane is to either A) never be in it or B) instantly be in and too bad that shen and TF arent really great at Jg but Karthus is still pretty decent and he doesn't even have to be remotely near anyone to gank lol

Taliyah is honest such a badass in the jg! she hits so hard and can use her R to roam so easily and if you are looking for Ganks for EARLY snowballing then honestly she is a notch above WW (by a large margin). she may not scale insanely well but still really well and when you get use to her she is actually a lot of fun considering the amount of skill it takes to really learn her and how to setup her abilities

Hec is prolly the more standard of the 3 but his R and early ganking is superior to the others and honestly he is still a beast once you get use to him

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