Understanding Jungler Pings.

Taredom·7/26/2015, 4:38:33 AM·3 votes·720 views

Figured I would make a thread regarding how laners are expected to react when a jungler (or anyone in a lot of cases) pings.

My pings may vary from the norm so feel free to include the different things that you do/see in your games and hopefully we can establish a baseline together so that we can create a way in which people can communicate more easily.

-To start, when I'm asking for a leash, I will ping "on the way" to the camp that I intend to start (whether it be a buff or gromp, very few champs I start krugs on)

-I also ping "Assist me" if a laner goes straight to lane rather than helping me leash (leashes are expected, about as expected as lane ganks are when you're under tower)

-Before I ping assist me when asking for the other side of my jungle to be covered, I generally write something in chat like "please ward my red at 1:30 and stand where I ping until then" followed by an "assist me" ping, of course I show gratitude towards the laners willing to do this, it gives me a heads up if I'm getting a buff stolen early and also gives me faith in the person enough to give incentive to give them an early gank.

-When I ping "danger" it means that either I've noticed the lane is pushed and they are at high risk of the enemy jungler ganking and I will not be able to respond or that I've noticed another lane is MIA and will also ping the MIA for which lane is missing and that they are at risk of being ganked from them.

-If I notice someone is MIA and it has not been called in the lane, I will call them as I see them in the respective lanes.

-I will ping danger in the enemy jungle if I see anyone cross over a ward in there.

-I ping danger two to three times if I see a jungler going to a lane to gank and "on the way" if I'm in position to counter gank, this is very important because if I think we can win the 2v2, you should bait and follow up.

-I will ping assist me if I see an enemy jungler and I think we can catch them out. (pinging twice with an on the way, first ping on the location with the on the way, second assist me on the lane that I want help from)

-I will ping to the lane of which I am going to gank for "on the way," followed by an "assist me" ping when i want you to go in, followed by a ping for which route I plan to go in from. This is where I tend to lose faith in my laners, I give them three very important pieces of information, if you don't follow up, odds are I will not be back for another gank.

-I ping "assist me" to the lane of which I am giving a buff too as well as on the buff that I am giving, if I am doing it timer based, I will say "meet blue in 30 secs" with the assist me ping for mid, I will stay aware of how the lane looks before offering it up, no sense taking a lot of tower damage just to get a blue buff.

-I ping danger when I see a ward being placed, I always follow up with the statement "ward" when I see it, this is one that I tend to explain early on so that my teammates understand that I am telling them that it's been warded.

-If I am tasked with engaging, I will ping "on the way" and "assist me" as I am getting in position.

-If a team fight goes south, I will ping "danger" two to three times when I think that we should bail.

What pings do you all use and how do you use them? I think it would be a great idea to establish at least a general base line, I try to start my games off with explaining some of the less than simple pinging strategies that I use, communication is key.

4 Comments

Faith Breaker7/26/2015, 5:17:44 PM1 votes

I read 4 pings and stopped seeing how much you wrote. You know I think we'll just keep things to pings. The whole point of a ping is to use audio and a visual effect to quickly relay information. You're sort of destroying the whole point with this clumsy wall of text. Honestly.

joebobby14127/27/2015, 2:54:56 AM1 votes

So, basically you ping on the way for when you are going somewhere, assist me when you want help, enemy missing when an enemy is missing, and danger when there is danger. (...or a ward, that's weird)