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Just because a dragon isn't infernal doesn't mean you should ignore it

JerulEon·11/3/2016, 4:57:16 PM·1 votes·339 views

So many low elo junglers like to ignore dragon. "Oh it's just cloud Drake no big deal, let's try to siege mid instead."

Let me tell you a tip. Getting Drake's are much, much safer early game to capitalize on than a tower. After a successful pick, if you rotate mid you will do jack shit damage to the tower. Plus, death timers are so low the enemies will probably respawn, kill us, and take dragon themselves. Stacking Drakes is even more important because even if you don't see them useful, you at least take them away from your opponent and get free gold.

When late game rolls around, those triple stacked dragon buffs are going to bite you in the ass. "Wow the enemy team is so hard to catch and when a fight breaks out their whole team gets there faster than we do!!" No shit that was the three cloud drakes you gave up for more mid farm screwing us and now we lost Baron. And when the enemy team gets the elder drake, you will question why our tanks just get melted in team fights.

It's not all about the infernal dragon. Think of dragons like a bank investment for the late game and contest every single one you can.

3 Comments

Shadòw11/3/2016, 4:57:57 PM1 votes

Mountain is stronger atm anyway

dominusx11/3/2016, 5:02:35 PM1 votes

personally if it's a cloud drake i usually just go clear the entire enemy junglers jungle ( or at least one side if it's really early ) so this creates a snowball for me and puts the enemy jungle in a spot where i can simply control his movement around the map and tell my team to ward accordingly. ANY good jungler will instantly rotate to the other part of his jungle if he see his camp missing after a big'ish fight there is no reason to walk down to krugs if there is a 60% chance the enemy took it rather walk topside and get your other 2 camps and look for a gank or ward for your laners.