Summoner Battle Training: When to Gank vs When to Farm

Ark Angel HFB·6/20/2015, 12:08:51 PM·1 votes·1,255 views

Hey dudes Ark here.

I posted a Straw about what topic people most wanted to learn about. link for those interested. http://strawpoll.me/4518918

I got a lot of votes on the poll so I went ahead and made the first video...

When to Gank vs When to Farm Jungle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCJbrYq7Bc

Please comment on it with how it can be made better and what you'd like and didn't like about it.

~Ark

1 Comments

Frank3276/20/2015, 12:44:26 PM1 votes

Ok, some improvements:

  1. Control junglers don't focus on ganking, but are good at counterjungling and taking objectives. Nunu IS A CONTROL JUNGLER, you put nunu as a pressure jungler. I'd rename pressure junglers to ganking junglers anyways, because it gives a better idea of what they do. Also in this category I'd replace vi (who is quite ult dependent) with xin zhao. Also shyvana is an excellent example of a control jungler. The biggest difference between pressure junglers and control junglers is the strength of their ganks which is why shyvana and nunu are control junglers. Also quite a few junglers are a all-rounders like Vi.

  2. It's important to note that the biggest advantage of farm junglers is their teamfighting, not necessarily the ganking power after reaching level 6.

  3. Slow down on the udyr hate. He's a pretty good control jungler that gets a lot of hate because of how some people play him.

Maybe some additions:

  • Making a quick return gank after an enemy laner has used flash has good success rate. Also if you successfully ganked someone, they won't expect you to show up again 50 seconds later which can really snowball a lane.

  • Some lanes are ungankable and some are free kills waiting to happen. If a botlane has blitzcrank on one side and leona on the other you can usually just walk into the lane and sweep up two free kills because of all the engage power. If a midlane has xerath vs orianna then you're not gonna achieve anything. It's self explanatory which lane you should be ganking.

  • You need to be time efficient. If you're trying to make something happen but it isn't working and the enemy jungler is farming then you're losing hard. Laners get xp just by virtue of being in the lane. You only get xp when you clear camps or get kill/assists. So you can't afford to waste time, otherwise you'll be weaker than a support.