I'm sick and tired of being forced into roles that I'm not good at.
Guys, I'm not very good at jungle. Please I will play anything but jungle.
2 minutes later I'm stuck with jungle pick.
Then team bitches at me how I suck and should go kill myself.
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Sadly you may just need to grit your teeth and learn how to jungle. It's really not difficult once you learn how to do it. Typically you can reverse-engineer the method by, when you're playing as a laner, noticing what the good junglers you have do. All you have to do is ask yourself: 'when I had good/excellent junglers in the past, what did they do in the game?' Sure they ganked for your lane, but try to think about the condition of your lane when they did. Why did they choose that time? What direction did they come from and why did they choose that? It's really not difficult to be a decent jungler. I consider myself a trash jungler and yet people tell me I do just fine.
One specific tip, though: Keep an eye on your minimap. Like supports, junglers have a certain amount of luxury in that they can stop for a moment and appraise the global situation of the game. I'll often joke with my friends that the game can be appraised by my first jungle clear: if I can't get through my first run (which doesn't take THAT long) without people on my team dying, we're probably gonna have issues. First Blood isn't a nightmare, but two or three deaths just gives me a sinking feeling.
The minimap can tell you a lot of basic information you'll need as a jungler anyway: who's pushed, who's not, who's in lane, who's going back, etc. After that many of the same basic rules of league apply to jungling: prioritize objectives, ward, play smart and safe, secure a kill if someone's not going to get it, go for the easy meal if you need to.
It doesn't do any good to complain about roles you can't play, especially if you play Ranked. It's gonna happen where you get stuck in those roles eventually. Best to at least be familiar with them, or able to remember what the good players of those roles you've seen did.
I've got two suggestions for you:
- Play Team Builder so you don't have to jungle.
- Play Team Builder so you can practice jungle without getting yelled at too much.
I know that feel. I once told my team I can't jungle and I was last pick, the guy who picked before me just Instalocked top (the role that the whole team agreed to give me since i coudlnt jungle) so I told him "don't complain if I dont gank good" and what does he do? He dies 1v1 about 5 times, and blames me the whole time.
If you're talking ranked then you have to be able to play all positions. Just play a tank, if you tell your team you're not very good at jungling then when you don't gank they still cry, just mute 'em.
Jungler gets blamed for losses all the time, that's just what teams do. Even if you're a pro and all your lanes are losing there's nothing you can really do and yes, they will all say it's your fault.