I'm getting several matches where EVERY SINGLE lane is losing, and everyone keeps blaming me for not ganking their lane first. I'm just so confused so I just hit the nearest one on my route. I know I'm doing something wrong but I just can't pinpoint it.
And I still get the blame. What do I do if everyone's losing their stupid lane?
Your best bet in this situation is to find which lane would do best late game and carry their lane so they can help you survive late game. Ganking losing lanes is a waste of time unless your other lanes are already winning hard. Your time is always better spent breaking a tie in your team's favor and using that advantage late game rather than trying to save a lane against enemy champs that have already been fed.
at this point, I consider the game is lost and mute everyone cuz its inevitable they will all blame the jungler
your lucky for me its them winning for the first couple minutes overextending getting ganked losing and this process continues over and over and over because they dont have the ability to learn and ward or not push the lane so hard so them losing is my fault
Best thing you can do depends on the exact details. There are a few possibilities:
Biggest thing of all is to not let your teammates get to you. If they're looking for someone to blame they're going to find someone, whether it's the support or the jungle or the mid. Pretty much anyone except themselves. It takes a rare player to actually admit mistakes and shortcoming over chat. Simply, it's not the jungle's job to win someone's lane, their job is to help the team as a whole. The jungler has the hardest decisions to make in a game, it's hard and usually a thankless job, tough through it though and you'll be a valuable asset to your team :D
Really good replies! Keep them coming!
Usually numeric advantage can play a huge role in your favor expecially if the enemy winner lane pushes because he/she feels safe. Try to make the best out of it, you basically have to counter time it.
Also, decide to camp for a bit the lane you feel more comfortable with.
This is from a midlaner main PoV.
This is the biggest issue with playing Jungle, it drove me out of the position (as a main at least). You get blamed for everrrrrything others do wrong. Someone loses lane? Your fault. Someone doesn't ward? your fault. We are getting sieged? Your fault. People love to deflect fault off themselves and often times you are the only person they will blame.
Really all you can do it try to get yourself big and carry, get objectives such as crab, buffs, dragon if you can steal it or grab it on a good rotation, towers, and try to help the person who is best on your team. I used to think jungling was about just helping those who need or help people get ahead but the meta has sort of changed. Seeing as the game is so snowball now you are better off camping for someone who is winning (putting them even further ahead) than camping someone who is behind and trying to help them catch up. For example if top is getting rekt just let his tower fall and let him die a few times. Chances are the enemy top is too strong already and even 2 of you wont do much against him. Wait for top to roam so your top can split push and catch up on his own. In the meantime if your mid lane is winning camp them hard and get your mid laner huge.
Sometimes tho there is just nthing you can do so just try to fend for yourself and help objectives, don't get baited into the toxic flaming by noob team mates.
Just pick one lane and try to turn it around, whoever is the most snowbally. For example say you have an akali, try and get her lane rolling,
Focus on a single lane, don't leave yourself open to the enemy jungler, and farm up whenever you can.
Vision control helps out, too, use raptors to just take out wards regardless of wether or not you're going to gank, and take scuttlers as often as possible
This is why. First it's extremely unlikely that a laner is going to be able to burn the opposing laner's Flash by themselves. If they could do that, they'd be stomping the lane already and they don't need you at all. The first gank you do to a lane is to burn Flash (with a low % chance of getting a kill) then you come back again before the 5 minutes is up. This forces the enemy laner to play super passive for 5 minutes which leads to your lane probably winning.
Don't wait for their jungler before you do something in the game. I don't understand this at all, actually. Why bother checking for wards in the first place if you will only act if you can see all 5 enemy members on the minimap? Your goal is to make sure you can see if their jungle/mid will come to interfere when you gank. Which means placing wards on their likely entry paths, far enough away you can bug out if you see them making a move on you.
Basically force the Flash so your laner can play aggressively. Ward around that spot and keep visiting the guy with no Flash any time he tries to do something risky.
Edit: You can't save all the lanes. Pick one at a time and kind of decide based on how easy it will be. High burst + CC lane is the best and that's usually mid or top. Get them boosted really early if you can, then wait until you can 4v2 bot as it's harder to win with just you. Your team will usually shut up if they see you helping one lane, cause they can see you have a plan and are aggressive about it. It also makes the enemy jungler have to react to you, instead of the other way around.
D2 jungler here.
If every lane is losing you're best off camping top or mid lane until you get a kill/tower. Get deep wards in their jungle or wait for the enemy jungler to go elsewhere on the minimap, and then go for the gank. 1 for 1 trades benefit the losing team as long as the other team can't get an objective afterwards.
If you're playing a damage-oriented jungler gank the lane with more crowd control, and vice versa. Avoid bot lane, a snowballing bot lane can 2v3 easily.
Let's say you're playing Rammus jungle and you're ganking top. You're laner is Maokai and he is facing an Irelia. You have 5 different crowd control abilities, but very low damage. Even if all of your crowd control hits Irelia can still walk away after the CC wears off.
If you or Maokai are behind enough she could probably double kill.
