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3 quick tips for jungle

20XX Multishine·2/14/2017, 1:53:01 AM·1 votes·417 views

Camp your winning lane.

This doesn't mean 100% ignoring the losing lanes and sometimes it does there are alot of variables that go into this. Mostly you want to camp your winning lane because its easier to snowball a winning lane then it is a losing lane. Your laners are also showing they arent very good players so that is our assumption. We dont take risks in solo que and we dont trust our teammates. Sometimes you will have to 100% ignore a lane like botlane until they get caught and overextend like they 100% will. I won basically a 2v5 game last game because I got top extremely far ahead while bot was 2-15. I farmed waves let my team get caught lost alot of obj BUT by the time I got my core items me and the toplaner could just 2v5.

Get good at routes and farming, think 10+ seconds ahead.

You always want to plan your routes. Efficiency is very essential in jungling you will need to be able to keep track of everything while you farm and see where you can go. This also comes in with know your matchups. If you know you can get early kills dont force them but farm and area nearbye and wait for an opportunity, if it doesn't come farm more. Know jungle matchups if you can invade and get out make sure to always have an escape route or two before doing somewhat risky things.

Keep playing the same chamions

This way you will get down very minor details where games that look unwinable become winable because you have muscle memory on the champ(s) you play. I suggest sticking to two champions for main and off role. Play easy champions that way you can think more about the game without having to worry about mechanics. And if you did have the mechanics you wouldn't need this advice post so play easy stuff.

champion suggestions for (obviously if you are higher tier you can play the lower tier champions)

bronze/silver (eve focus getting lanes ahead then farm) Evelynn Maokai Malphite Trundle Volibear Rammus

gold/plat Vi Zac Evelynn Hecarim Skarner

diamond 5 Elise Evelynn Ivern Pantheon Vi Zac

d4 up Vi LeeSin Khazix Rengar Evelynn Elise

1 Comments

Snowman Arc2/14/2017, 4:09:05 AM1 votes

The most important advice to me is use your time to its maximum efficiency. You kinda covered it, but you need to emphasize on it, because jungling is different than laning. In lane, you can't do more than the same cycle every 30 seconds that the minions come around and you take advantages there. In jungle, you can do so many things, so every second matters. You can gank? Do it. You can't? Farm. You can't farm? Try to place down vision, remove plants, counter jungle, predict ganks. None of these can happen? Roam towards the side that the enemy jungler probably is and try to take an advantage off them. That's risky? Then that's probably a good time to recall, buy items, a control ward and go back for more.

Efficiency is of the essence here. Maximizing your gold income and lane pressure while denying your opponent is very important and it can happen EVERY SINGLE SECOND. I've seen people in lower elo going back to base to buy items, even if there is a camp they can take nearby or they don't care about counterjungling, even if the enemy jungler shows on the opposite side of the map. That's a big waste of time. Not picking up a nearby camp is almost equal to giving up an entire minion wave just to go and buy some item, when you can just shove it. A lot of people don't realize how important this is when trying to outpace the enemy.

Basically, people need to think jungling as just another lane you have to beat and the ways you can do that are so many, that you need to find what's the best and fastest one. Just because you got a gank off top lane, doesn't mean you do a good job, if you leave your entire jungle unprotected to the enemy jungler, while you just recall to fill your HP bar, then the jungler just got a bigger gold income and XP than you did while you ganked that lane, and that's assuming that the gank worked.