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How to improve in the jungle - S7

Hawkeye556·1/11/2017, 3:23:34 PM·4 votes·7,056 views

So I started off the season in ranked flex with a bang. was gold 5 last season, went like 8/2 in placements and got placed S3. I was on fire starting out carrying games hard from my main position of jungle, hit my placements and jumped to S1 from S3. climbed all the way to 97 LP, then everything changed when the fire nation attacked. I began to plummet, struggling to win games, much less have positve KDA's. Yesterday, I received the dreaded message, I have been demoted to S2. What happened?!?!

The last few days I think I started to figure it out. the common denominator in all these terrible games was me. I think I let all the awesomeness of my early games of the season get to my head, and fully succombed to the "Lee Syndrome" aka..... the dark side. I became a blood thirsty animal who wanted a kill at all costs. I became blind to what wasn't on the mini map, that if the enemy team wasn't showing that meant they didn't exist.

After many failed attempt to carry, I realized, I was only making each game worse. Now there are some games where the other team is just that much better than you, and you will still lose. It happens, but if you follow these simple rules, it will help you to make better decisions. Now I know there are more, than these, and I am still improving myself, so if you can think of any more, feel free to add.

  1. Know your match ups. This only comes from experience, but when in doubt, err on the side of caution
  2. If you don't see a laner, assume he is right next to your target. Especially if your target is running from you.
  3. Use the scryer plants. Seriously, all the time..... use them. Far too often I died from invading their jungle for farm without vision of their jungler.
  4. A failed gank isn't a gank without a kill. If you gank and burn enemy summoners, or force the lane to back while yours gets to stay and farm, that is better than a 1 for 1 gank. A failed gank is one where you don't advance the lane any, either by dying and not getting a kill, or getting a kill, but giving the enemy one as well.
  5. Before you engage, take a second to examine everything and decide, do I really need this kill? What are the costs of it? is 1 kill worth a dragon, a tower, a death, a baron?
  6. Farm, Farm, and more farm. 'nuff said
  7. Punish enemy junglers mistakes. Enemy jungler shows bot or tries to gank and you are too far away to counter. Now is the perfect time to clear his top jungle. Just remember rules 1 and 2

Overall, I realized with champ mechanics I am pretty sound, but It is decision making that cost me, and probably many others game.

hope this helps some people.

4 Comments

Restless Slumber1/11/2017, 4:51:58 PM2 votes

Biggest tip I can give to low elo players in the jungle is to put wards down in the enemy jungle. In low elo if you want to carry as a jungler it is as simple as playing something that has the potential to oneshot opponents and running around in their jungle and killing them. I would recommend Rek'Sai. Put wards down and watch the enemy's buff timers and invade them, and kill them then. Watch where the enemy goes after visiting a lane and invade them then. Every single game that I have played in low elo as the jungler I win purely out of just repeatedly killing their jungler.

ForFoxSakes1/11/2017, 5:05:29 PM2 votes

A huge difference can be made in the champ select screen too when junglers MUST know their jungle type. I see a lot of shitters play gank heavy Shyvana and wonder why its not working or try to hard farm a heavy ganker like Lee Sin. Have to know your plan against the enemy team then pick the champ, not just pick the same champ and do different things all the time