Jungling general advice for Ganking/Farm/Control junglers.

Void Nargacuga·8/17/2015, 4:38:11 AM·1 votes·1,579 views

First off I would like to say that I'm attempting (and failing miserably in my opinion/perspective) to learn the role of Jungling. Most notably its probably because of I'm a more of a hands on learner. I've asked for advice and such before. But usually (no offense to the players who have said this to me) its this:

  1. Go watch youtube videos to learn from them.
  2. Pick X champ its freelo/OP.

Yeah the first one can help for sure, to an extent. The second one... How can something be freelo/OP if you don't even know how to play them? Basically saying (as an old example if I'm correct): Pick Sejuani she is OP. She usually got banned though (if your playing Draft Normals/Ranked for example during her reign of terror)... So how do you play her? Blind normals is of course a very different story. I actually own her now (and attempted jungling with her to varied, but mostly bad, success from my perspective) but i was just trying to make an example.

I guess my real problem is that i get TONS of advice... But that's it, nothing else. No showing how/why it works well with me in the game learning from such experiences. This is something I would greatly love to have. Seeing it done or maybe going against a forgiving jungle player who explains what i might have done wrong and how I could improve that aspect of play would be a TREMENDOUS help. I've asked for such help before in game, but rarely does it amount to anything except more of the above advice. Which doesn't help me learn in a way that works best for me.

TL/DR: Get in a game with me and TEACH me how to jungle effectively with any type of jungler. I would greatly appreciate this.

10 Comments

PonderousSealion8/17/2015, 4:47:55 AM1 votes

You can add me, I can't guarantee when I'll be available though

KitsuneKrash8/17/2015, 5:06:25 AM1 votes

As an experienced jungler, it's actually rather difficult to teach a new jungler when when they don't know what type of jungler they want to start with. Also, definitely ignore advice of 'Pick X because they're op'. That view is because they're good in the current meta, the meta can change frequently & drastically.

The first thing I would recommend is deciding what type of jungler you want. I enjoyed playing aggressive & picked Vi as my first jungler since she's a ganking jungler. My wife plays lots of support, so I taught her to play utility junglers since most have cc to help their team.

I personally dislike recommending farm junglers even tho many can be rather strong right now due to sated devourer. When you have a stacking item, it's always in the back of your mind to keep getting stacks & I've been in a few games where people have ignored their team needing them because they were focused on getting stacks.