So we all know that this season, Eve basically got relegated out of the jungle. It's practically impossible to stay in it anymore with enough health to survive, let alone gank. So my question for some of the more die-hard Eve players: what is the most efficient jungle path you've tried this season so far? Is it more effective to start with Krugs/Gromp or just go straight for the buffs?
Gromp (with smite) > Blue > Wolves (wait for smite if you are not sure you can do without) > Recall (buy Stalker Blade and 3 health pots) > Red (chose between conserving smite or health pots) > Gank.
Grab red instead of wolves before backing if you consider it likely red would be stolen otherwise. Don't get red before backing otherwise, it is less efficient. Assuming you back after three camps, Gromp smite buff will have expired before you can do more with it regardless of whether you got it before or after blue, so you might as well maximize the time you will have blue.
I find Krugs to be too out of the way to pick up most of the time unless I am waiting on red to spawn with nothing else to do that would not make me arrive at it late.
Always arrive at blue/red by 10 after their respawns, and aim for sub 5 seconds. You should be within one camp's worth of xp till hitting 6 after getting the buff you started on a second time, and within one camp xp of 8 after claiming the second round of the buff you got second.
Swapping one of the three AP quints I used last season for a spell vamp quint was enough to make the above possible without a leash. No other changes to runes or masteries was needed. If you take spell vamp, camps with more creeps will leave you with more hp presuming you get all the creeps lined up for your Q.
Sample game link for runes/mastries: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1653009416/218693738?tab=overview
Clearing while staying high on hp becomes easy after warden's mail.
P.S.
To anyone who wants to know, the only aditional AP besides what I had in that game is the +5 from upgrading Sheen to Trinity Force. I just find AP is good for early game burst that makes ganks work out more often.
Who plays Evelynn when you have every other champion?
You, build her ad, right? I've had success recently with straight up ad runes and building trailblazer with the attack speed enchantment. Then immediately rushing at botrk. My best eve games have been the ones where i completely ignore any ap itemizations and go for straight up attack speed life-steal and tankiness. Just out of preference, I mostly start red because you dont need much mana when you ignore eve's ap spells and max her e, also she does regenerate it when in stealth. Also, I'm not a die hard eve player imo, but I do play a ton of shaco and feel she has a similar kind of vibe.
is it a legitimate strategy to do less jungle and stalk the other guy in their jungle and kill him when hes low? idk, i dont play her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QIQOEuUeu
This is what you want to do, kite the camps around and abuse leash ranges. Eve is perfectly capable of clearing.
(The runes aren't even that great in the video, AP quints are much better than AD.)
All I know from many repeated attempts is that AP eve is long long long dead and sucks donkey balls. She has a hard time counter jungling as well (A 25% hp rengar was able to kill me at full hp we were both 2 but he won the smite and got 3 and red buff and ended up with seemingly more hp than he started with thanks to his heal and this was last season).
She has a hard time securing kills when you gank bot lane (you go in and she can often die by being focused by both the support and adc while your support and adc are still trying to do dmg no other jungler does so little dmg and has so little survivability).
Her late game is pretty good but getting there is hard. Her early game is strong but your team often throws the leads and makes it mean nothing. I will often be 3/0/1 and the other team is winning in kills. She's a mess I hate playing her and she used to me one of my favorite champions and it's moments like these where I think how weak eve and shyvana are that I literally just hate riot. Add on that their questionable at best moral integrity while having a ban hammer thrown randomly around without doing smart sensible things to make the game less of a grind and also less frustrating and sometimes I just think I should quit. I would if I hadn't invested so much already.
