Dear dumb junglers

I feel like I have to write a jungle guide for the League of Legends community because apparently even in highish elo (plat/low diamond) people still don't know how to jungle correctly.

So let's start off with the last game I played and how my jungler lost us the game.

We start the match and we notice that everyone in the game is around plat 1. Our Vayne, was diamond 4 last season. So immediately we can infer that 1.) We have a win condition that is vayne, and 2.) the player is probably at least somewhat competent given that he was a diamond 4 last season.

Fast forward this game about 5 minutes in and we see elise in a bush bot lane. She sits in this bush and fails to gank about 7 times. She still hasnt left the bush. 5 minutes later she is STILL in the bush bot lane.

So when your bot lane tells you this, and you're playing a jungler like shyvana, what this should basically tell you is that the entire enemy jungle is free. You literally own every single buff and camp on the map because their jungler is an idiot sitting in the bush bot lane for 5 minutes. So if you instead choose to farm raptors or some shit during this period of time YOU ARE WRONG.

Let's fast forward another 5 minutes. Elise is still in bot lane. Literally has not left bot lane. Because elise was also a diamond player last season and Elise knows that our vayne is our win condition. So elise is not going to let vayne get ahead.

So when your support explains to you that they're going to 3 man dive bot lane and you should probably come help because you're level 6 ap shyvana that's the correct play to make.

Think about it in a risk versus reward scenario:

Worst case: You don't come and vayne gets shut down bot lane and they get free first tower. (this is what happened)

Best case: You come and vayne or you get a kill bot lane and we get first tower. (this isn't what happened.)

Because you failed to defend your win condition bot lane we lost the game. This isn't bot's fault. This isn't mid's fault. This isn't top's fault. No, jungler, this is 100% your fault.

So the moral of the story here is that you junglers need to understand you are NOT the win condition. You are not the carry. The bot lane Vayne and similar champions will carry the game. You need to enable them. You need to take responsibility for winning the game. You can't just passively farm your jungler and let your win condition 2v3 the entire fucking game.

The sad thing is, this scenario plays out in every single fucking game of League of Legends in season 9. You either camp bot lane and get them ahead or you choose to lose the game. That is how s9 and s7 and s6 and s5 and s4 and s3 and s2 work. Literally play around your bot lane. It isn't hard.