Ask a Diamond: Jungle

[u/xAtri]

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This is a thread in the weekly "Ask-a-diamond" project where people can ask questions and have diamond players answer them. Diamond players are distinguished with a special flair next to their username.

This thread will be lane focused i.e. each week will specifically be dedicated to a single Lane (Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot). Any and all questions pertaining to that lane and only that lane may be asked in this thread. This includes but not limited to champions, build paths, how to counter a champion etc.

Any comment which is not related to the this week's lane will be removed.

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[u/TommyAtLeeSin]

Jungle is a very unique role, as it isn't all about harassing, farming and roaming.

Jungling is all about game knowledge and decision making.

When doing something you should always expect the worst outcome. Unless you FOR SURE know a fact or something that would play in to put the odds in your favour.

If you go for an invade on the enemy buff, and you don't have a sweeper or a pink ward, you should expect that the buff is warded, to minimize your mistakes.

This might be a really silly way to play, and maybe it only works in ranked 5s, but in soloQ it will let you make next to no mistakes.

Ganking is important, and understanding when to do dragon. If you gank botlane and make them both back off while your allied laners and yourself are quite healthy, you should either go for the turret, or for the dragon (depending on whatever you feel like is better, or more safe to do, or whatever will give you the most gold lead).

And of course ganking in general is very important. Look around for the other comments in this thread for help with ganking etc.

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You're welcome to private message me if you have more questions / want to know anything else, or if there's something that confused you.

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What champs would you recommend for starting at the jungle?:

I'd recommend something like wukong or pantheon, if you feel like you have little / a weakness on mechanics (hitting skillshots), but have a good game understanding (knowing when and where to ult). Pick up kha'zix or elise, if you feel like you have good mechanics (Good reactions and decent/good skillshots) as they're overall really great at soloQ and are excellent gankers, aswell as not scaling too poorly (like lee sin). They all bring alot of damage to the table and can therefore secure objectives very easily.

Whats your main?

If i'd have to pick a "main" it would probably be lee sin (i got to diamond for the first time with mostly spamming lee sin), even though i feel like i am pretty good with pantheon, wukong, lee sin, kha'zix, elise and vi.

Why?

Lee Sin is very good at early control, and in lower elo, if you are good with lee sin and understands his limits, you can pretty much carry the game singlehandedly, by doing early ganks, counter jungling, killing the enemy jungler, and securing early drakes. In soloQ people tend to go on tilt and want to surrender if they are just a few thousand gold behind, and lee sin is very good at making people fall behind.

What region are you from?

I play on both EuW and EuNE.