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Easiest Junglers, Ever

Squidsmastah·9/23/2015, 11:12:06 PM·1 votes·7,113 views

I made a thread kind of like this one a few days ago (at the time this was written) and I'd dramatically change what I had written.

Jungler #1 Warwick Warwick: FIghter

Warwick has a lot of sustain when fighting due to his trait, Eternal Thirst. This causes Warwick to deal a small bit of magic damage with his autoattacks and heal for that same amount. This will stack, in other words, increase the amount of healing gained. Although it doesn't completely heal you through all damage you take, it greatly helps when fighting jungle monsters. His Q, Hungering Strike, is a life steal ability. What it will do, is it will deal damage to enemy, and then heal him for 75% of that damage dealt. Very useful when dueling another champion. His W, Hunter's Call, increases his and all nearby ally champion attack speed for a certain amount. Warwick's allies gain half the attack speed he himself would get. His E, Blood Scent, reveals nearby enemy champions that are below half health and increases Warwick's move speed by a certain amount, which makes him very good at chasing low health targets. Finally, his ultimate, Infinite Duress, locks down an enemy champion for a few seconds, and dealing damage over that duration. Overall, Warwick has a simple kit and not a very hard champion to use, and is also only 450 Influence Points. I recommend skilling up your Blood Scent first for maximum chasing potential.

Jungler #2 Nunu Nunu: Fighter, Support

Nunu is a fantastic jungler mostly due to his Q, Consume. Cannot be used on champions, but can be used on minions and monsters. It will deal true damage to them (simplified to: a lot of damage :P) and heal him for a certain amount. It will also grant him a buff when he uses it on certain jungle monsters. Elementals (Brambleback, Blue Sentinel) will grant him increased health and size. Animals (Murk Wolves, Raptors) will grant a small movement speed IF he kills one with consume otherwise you won't get the buff. Other Monsters (Krugs, Gromp) will grant him additional magic damage equal to a certain percentage of his maximum health. Nunu's trait, Visionary, lets him cast an ability free after 5 attacks (autoattacks) so he can be very mana efficient. His W, Blood Boil, slightly increases his and an ally's movement speed, but drastically increases attack speed. This can help you activate Nunu's trait. His E, Ice Blast, is a missile type ability (it will home to its target) that will deal damage and drastically reduce that enemy's attack speed and move speed for 3 seconds. Finally, Nunu's ultimate is Absolute Zero. It is a channeled ability (has to be cast over a certain time and can be prevented) that will deal very high damage based on how long the ability has been charged. During this time, enemies standing within the area have their move speed reduced by 50% and attack speed by 25%. This ultimate has to be channeled over 3 seconds for its maximum damage. Although Nunu is considered part support, you are wasting half of his potential if you aren't jungling with him. Nunu also isn't the best champion for dueling because he only has one ability that hits enemy champions. However, he is great with chasing down kills with his ice Blast becuase of the massive slow. Nunu also isn't very hard to use, and is also only 450 Influence Points. I recommend skilling up Consume for getting the best out of the minor buffs and and damage.

These are possibly the easiest jungling champions in the game, and don't worry about feeling like a noob when you jump into these guys and really like one (or both) of them. They are used in ranked matches, tournaments, and pro play in general.

Honorable Mentions

Amumu Amumu

Udyr Udyr

XinZhao Xin Zhao

Fiddlesticks Fiddlesticks

MasterYi Master Yi

Nocturne Nocturne

These are also great junglers, but they are a bit harder to learn than Warwick and Nunu.

If you are a newbie, comment down below if this helped or not. If you are not new, comment down below who you think are the easiest junglers.

9 Comments

Lyless9/23/2015, 11:18:05 PM1 votes

where is noc?

DXHaseoXD9/23/2015, 11:54:46 PM1 votes

TBH there are two more that could also contend as the easiest junglers.

Naut with his shield makes it easy to clear the jungle thanks to the aoe damage.

Aatrox with his regen from his W can match the healing that Warwick has and is easy to gank/engage with.

Squidsmastah9/23/2015, 11:57:48 PM1 votes

I went with champions that everyone can get at an EARLY LEVEL. So champions that don't require a lot of IP farming to get.

TouchpadExpert9/24/2015, 12:20:39 AM1 votes

Out of the two you listed Warwick is easier. Warwick has a pretty poor presence early game and requires farming, which is generally what most newbie players end up doing anyway. He has less complexity to his kit and so less likely to be used improperly.

Amumu is simple, easy and great at setting up team fights. He has slow clears and mana issues if he gets his blue buff stolen.

Xin Zhao is alright. He's pretty good at disrupting the enemy team and he can be used as a farm or counter jungler. His ganks aren't too bad either.

Udyr is still my pick for easiest jungler. Playing Udyr is like a point and click adventure game. He is a power farmer whose ganks are kind of lack luster but his objective control is top tier.

Nasus is better used top lane. He COULD jungle (same thing as Garen) but his late game will suffer as the jungle camps give Nasus "Q stacks" at a much slower rate.

Master Yi is a pretty good jungler and underrated in my eyes. He is probably the most deadly jungle champion in the low IP range. Fast farmer, built in sustain, fairly mobile and can be played as a farmer, counter jungler or ganker. He's the most well-rounded of the ones you listed.

Evelynn is actually REALLY hard for newbies to pick up. She's a gank-oriented/counter jungling jungler. The jungle camps beat her senseless. She was one of the champs in my early days that I regretted playing as.

Nocturne I just didn't like. His clears are ok, but he is horrible in low ELO games simply because of his ultimate. His ultimate can only be used on champions he can actually see. Warding is still an alien concept that isn't regularly employed by league newbies. I would recommend him more for intermediate players.

stealthfox949/24/2015, 2:21:45 AM1 votes

Nunu is the definition of easy to learn hard to master. Warwick is just a brain-dead duelist.

junglerboy169/25/2015, 1:49:36 AM1 votes

Nasus is not easy to play in the jungle. He has a very hard time in his early clears (lifesteal doesn't help if you have poor damage) and it is rather tricky to get stacks because you can either wait for the CD to last hit monsters (very bad for maintaining good health levels) or simply skip stacks (forces you to delay your late game, which defeats the point of taking Nasus Jungle, which is getting safe stacks and scaling into a powerhouse splitpusher).

He isn't impossible to use or a bad jungler, but he isn't an "easy" jungler.

Easiest goes to warwick, since he has almost no learning curve at all and doesn't have any intense strategy in his gameplay.

Fiddlesticks is also quite easy for a beginner, but after those first few matches, you get punished easily for mistakes like running OOM or a poorly timed ult or messing up your CC chain. He and Nunu both win the "easy to learn, hard to master" trophy.