Trying to learn jungle...everybody expects you to bail them out non-stop

GrenadesAndHamm·Aug 5, 2018·1 votes·818 views

I'd really like not having to mute people, but I might pre game.

Almost every game, somebody reports me because I dont bail them out of their fed lane. Last game, 0-3 after five minutes top had pinged me about 10 times, and 2-0 bot had pinged me about ten times. Dont know why bot was pinging. They were doing fine.

I explained that I wouldn't be much help until I got my ult. I looked and there were no ganking opportunities.

Top kept getting drawn to the enemy tower and repeatedly ganked by the enemy. Every time I went by as he retreated, he would press and sometimes got killed even though we had no advantage.

What to do?

3 Comments

Baron BarianAug 5, 20181 votes

A good jungler wants to be pro-active, trying to snowball lanes and get them strong enough to be healthy on their own. Some do need powerspikes, as champs like Rengar just can't gank well until level 6, but even so, junglers need to help their team at opportune times.

I will tell you this though. Talon is a terrible jungler, and he's clearly not doing you much good in your games. I would suggest trying someone else.

Summonah12369Aug 5, 20181 votes

You get used to it eventually (jungle main here), although the frustration can be hard to ignore when all 3 lanes are complaining.

GodhriAug 5, 20181 votes

You can't help what other people do but it sounds like a map pressure issue. If there are no ganking opportunities, then invade their camps. If there are no invasion opportunities or ganking opportunities then clear wards or help ward.

It's all very situational. Sometimes, it is the inaction or lack of action that makes it hard for laners to do anything in lane. For example, a laner might be pinging you and from your perspective, they are doing fine. But what you might have missed is that everytime they have pushed their lanes or pushed their laning advantage, they were ganked (and survived). This is an example of jungler difference.

But sometimes it is just people taking out their anger on you. ~shrug