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Help? How can I be a better Jungle?

pancode·2/11/2016, 4:55:25 AM·1 votes·516 views

I wanna tell my situation first. Me and my group of friends decided to start forming a local LoL team for ranked and for local tournaments around my area. For a while, I was set in Top Lane (usually as an AP Build Ekko or a Tank build Poppy), but my friend's brother is better than me at both Top and Mid lane, so we voted to put him in that spot (I agreed to it). I was Moved to Jungle (Primary) and Mid (Secondary) but whenever I go jungle, it seems that I feed badly! Now, I will say that I only played maybe three or four Jung games, but they were all bad (Most recent was Jungle Master Yi with 1/13/2).

Does anyone have any tips for playing Jungle better? Even though I'm better Top, Jung is fun and I'd like to main it. Any tips on getting more kills/staying alive as Jung? And my friend suggested that I should use a Tank like Cho'Gath or Poppy in the jung, and that it might help me stay alive and get kills. Could that be a solution?

Thanks for any help :)

6 Comments

shyv2/11/2016, 5:11:22 AM2 votes

probably best that you stick to easy junglers like xin, yi, and warwick

pancode2/11/2016, 4:57:11 AM1 votes

Oh and something else: I've seen Poppy Jung both in Draft and in LCS and it seems that it was viable.

GundayMonday2/11/2016, 6:32:38 AM1 votes

You're level 11. Get to level 30. Jungling gets a lot easier with full runes and masteries.

Weathered2/12/2016, 3:29:32 AM1 votes

Your OP.GG says you're lvl 5, so I will try to be detailed.

Amumu Rammus Vi Zac are all very safe/easy-to-play junglers. If you don't know a role, its safest to pick a tanky champion because you are able to be useful even if you aren't doing well.

You are also building support or tanky items like item 3105 and item 3056 on Master Yi, who is a DPS fighter and needs damage items. It's a really good idea to look up both a quick build guide on somewhere like Mobafire.com and a youtube video of someone who plays that champion playing a game. Usually this only takes a half hour combined, and really saves you the trouble of going through multiple games of not doing well with a champion. This way you can learn how to build and how to play the character.

If you start to gank a lane and don't have a item 3341 or item 3364, see if the enemy starts to back away and run. If they do, you know their is a ward in that lane and you should gank another lane instead until you see the ward deteriorate. Also remember that you can gank lanes from behind the enemy, not just the side, by walking back around closer to their tower and coming from an angle.

It's best to smite smartly in the jungle. Smite Red buff if you need health, Blue buff if you need mana, Krugs if you plan to farm (it gives a stun every few autos), and the raptors if you want to clear hidden enemy wards. Never smite the rift scuttler, because it gives no debuff. And speaking of rift scuttler, hitting it with a cc like a stun or root will make it easier to kill. CCing the scuttler will actually lower its defenses from 60 armor and mr to 10 for a short while.

If you like counter jungling and taking the enemy junglers farm, the best places to ward are...

  1. A item 2043 in the bush behind and infront of red buff (so the bush behind the dragon pit and the one on the other side that no one goes into). This way you can either see when they are doing red buff, or see when they are headed mid for a gank.
  2. A item 3361 ward in the bush next to the raptor camp. Now your team can see which side their jungler is on since most junglers will go through that bush often.
  3. A item 3340 ward between the three camps on blue buff side. That area that is kind of a common path where the three camps converge (right behind the bush at blue buff) is a great place to ward because, like number 2, you can see where the jungler is.

If an enemy has an escape move, like Lucian's dash, and you have a skillshot CC, like Amumu's Q, its best to wait to use it. If you use it too early, the person might just dash to dodge. Try to bait out the persons get away by making it look like you are going to use your cc first, then shoot when they have no escape move.

I have to go to sleep but I hope this helps. If you want to learn more things try looking up PantsAreDragon or NightBlue3 on twitch and watching his stream. Both are Challenger junglers who are good at explaining (especially NightBlue3). **You really look like you are trying to learn, and if you have any questions just mesage me (SlayerTay6), I main jungle. Hope this helps ^.^ **