Hey everyone today, we'll be going over one of the most popular jungle routes that were seen in Korean challenger
It was used in the World Championship final by the jungler IG Ning to get first blood in the second game against fnatic
In Korean Challenger is being used. Most notably by Tarzan
The current ranked one in Korea and whose games we'll be going over today
The route will be teaching you is for junglers that take the predator rune such as hecarim Gragas skarner or olaf
Don't worry
If you don't play these champions as you'll learn how the route works and how to deal with it
This path alone is responsible for hecarim going from the 22nd. Most picked jungler to the 6th most in the past month
All right enough hyping it up. Let's jump into it. Here's the path
We start at red buff then do Raptors and then crog's after crog's we recall back to base. That's right
You didn't hear me wrong. We're recalling that early once in base
We purchase boots in a pink ward and then head back onto the map towards our blue after finishing our blue
we'll look to hit a
disgustingly strong gank with our predator boots active their early recall is just the start of some of the cool features of this route another
Unique thing about this opener is that you can do it without a leash simply starting Raptors instead of red leashless
openers have two main benefits
Firstly it can be great to do if your teammates are strong lane bullies
Allowing them to assert early control since they don't have to arrive late in lane on the other hand
It can hide what side of the map you started on since your starting location is often revealed by those teammates
arriving late to Lane in the first place
However, if your teammates can't really push that early advantage then getting a leash can be beneficial since it speeds up your overall clear
Alright enough overview. Let's jump into a replay of rank one. Korean jungler tarzan and break down exactly how this works
And what makes it so powerful to start the game off. Tarzan puts down a standard ward in the pixel brush
I'm sure as many of you know
It protects both him and his mid laner from any early cheese on that side of the map and can spot the enemy jungler taking
Scuttle after placing the ward he moves to his red to start the route at this time
Alistar Ward's the pixel brush on the bot side of the map
This is extremely important as you'll need this ward to protect yourself from an invade on your blue buff
Don't worry. We'll be explaining exactly what to do
If someone does invade you later on in this video now some of you might be thinking to yourself
there's no way my teammates will ward that brush for me if you're asking your teammates to ward it and they
Consistently aren't then simply ward it yourself at a minute and five seconds and then run to your read. Don't worry
You'll make it back to your camps in time having a ward on the opposite side you start on is more valuable in this route
Since your blue is vulnerable to being stolen again, we'll be covering this more later on in this video
So Tarzan starts the beginning of the route with a leash on his red
Then does Raptors and moves to crux next some of you may be wondering when exactly you use smite in this route
Which is a great question we hold on to our smite until the crowd camp and there's two reasons for this
Firstly it
Lets us have our smite available to quickly secure camps if you get invaded early on
Secondly by saving the smite for the ancient Krug. We kill it faster
This is good because it makes it divided into the two medium crog's faster as well. This lets us use AoE abilities
Which every predator jungler has to kill the medium crog's earlier overall increasing our clear speed
We hit level three off this third camp instead of the usual four camps because crog's gives us so much
Experience after crog's we begin what looks to be far too early of a recall while in reality
This is exactly what makes this route
So strong you will now have exactly enough gold to buy both boots of speed and a pink wart
And for those of you who don't know the predator room not only gives you a huge movement speed buff when?
Activated but it also does damage on your next attack or damaging ability which scales based on level at level 3
It will do 74 bonus damage, which is actually an insane amount to put it into perspective
Electrocute does 48 at level 3 and dark harvest while an average do 32
So now you can start to see how by getting these early boots to unlock your predator rune
Not only will your ganks be more successful because of the increased movement speed
But you'll also hit like a truck
The next standard part of the route is to secure your blue buff
Which will help with any mana issues and give you a small CDR boost you can see how being level 3 with predator boots would
Shut down any attempt at invading us at this time
Now there's something very important that happens at the 2 minute and 50 second law. What do you think it is?
Two minutes and 50 seconds is when the early pixel brush Ward's everyone puts down will expire
This is yet another bonus to this route
Since your ganks will hit after those early Ward's expire
This causes a lot of mid laners to be pushed up with a false sense of security
And easily gank able now when you arrive at your blue your second smite charge will be coming off cooldown
We'll be using the smite to top our health back up to full and making sure we secure blue from any kind of steal attempt
So don't use your smite too early on this can all right
So Tarzan is now level 3 has double buffs predator boots and a pink wart
This is the timing window that the route creates and he's now transitioning into the second half of the strategy
Finding a lane to gank this creates an obvious question
How does Tarzan know whether to gank mid bot or go back to farming his camps? Well bot
Lane is pushed and so there isn't really a gank available
However, some of you might be worried that they would be ganked by the enemy jungler since they lack vision
Here's the cool thing with hecarim e ghost and predator boots. He can actually react relatively fast to a gank bot
Meaning that while he's killing scuttle. He's actually both threatening a gank mid and a counter gank bot at the same time
This is a unique advantage predator junglers have due to the movement speed buff
Now if we take a look at mid lane, it's pushed towards his side of the map
He also has Alessandra which has both mobility and CC on top of that
The enemy mid is Zoe which is squishy and doesn't have an escape tool early on other than flash
It's for these reasons
He's able to find a lane to gank and complete the second half of the strategy
The first thing he does next is hit the squire's bloom towards the mid lane the direction
He hits it in is actually quite precise as it's revealing the pixel brush at the mid lane brush and the tip of the brush
Behind the enemy red this basically covers every single area that a mid laner can ward to protect himself from a jungle gank
He then begins to kill scuttle pushing it towards mid and away from bog
This is because he knows there's no wards around mid to spot him and it's also towards the direction
He wants to move after finishing the scuttle Tarzan places a pink ward and moves into this brush
I think this really highlights an integral part of the strategy that people might miss by recalling so early and being able to
A pink ward were able to use it to set up our ganks by guaranteeing that the enemy can't see us
Tarzan continues waiting and some of you might be thinking this is a bit strange considering zoey is missing from mid lane
This is actually a real heads-up play by the Zoey even though the minions are in Lane
She's hiding in the fog of war pretending like she recalled
she'll wait until the last possible moment that a minion gets low on health and then move up to lasted a clever attempt at
Dissuading Tarzan from ganking her and definitely would have worked on a lesser jungler
Tarzan's patience pays off and Zoey walks back into Lane to last-hit the minions
He goes early as it takes two seconds for it to reach its maximum movement speed. He also activates his predator boots
You should be aware that when you activate them it puts an icon over any enemies head
That's nearby for this reason try not to activate them too early as it can scare off the enemy you're trying to gank
He then puts on his dancing shoes and makes a nice sidestep on Zoey's ability unleashing the full power of this opener
He bursts Zoe to half HP. That's insane considering she was near full health and used barrier
He then helps lissandra push the wave into the tower putting himself further ahead and Zoe further behind
Now some of you might be wondering what do you do if there's no gank available after the blue buff?
This is what's so versatile and consistent about this route
You get the option of hitting a really strong gank timing after your blue buff
But if it's not available
You can then opt into super efficient farming after
Checking if scuttle is up you clear grump and then do wolves now here's what's really cool
Because we cleared the red side of our jungle all at once really early
After we're done Wolf's our Raptors will spawn and guess what after we clear Raptors
Our crog's will spawn this lets us fall back into power farming for level 6 if no ganks are available
Very few other routes offer such versatility, okay
This is starting to sound like a bulletproof strategy that has absolutely no flaws
So let's talk about the weaknesses and how to deal with them
Well, since we're going to be farming the entirety of the red side of our jungle
We won't get to our blue until the three minute mark. This leaves two main weaknesses early on
firstly we can't respond to any early ganks and
Secondly, the blue quadrant is vulnerable to being counter jungled
So let's jump into a replay of exactly that
tarzan's blue quadrant being invaded by an early game jungler
Leeson who then ganks
Aggressively so Tarzan starts at his Raptors instead of his red since he's not getting a leash which as we mentioned earlier in the video
Is perfectly fine once again?
highlighting the adaptability of this opener
rekon places the pixel brush ward on the opposite side of the map which as we're going to see is
absolutely necessary to deal with invades Tarzan continues the route as usual moving to his red buff and
Now we see why the pixel brush Ward is so important
Tarzan spots Lee sin moving to the scuttle in the river. This usually happens at the 150 to 155 mark
So at that time pay attention to this area
Whenever it's this early in the game and a jungler moves through this ward always assume. He's invading your blue
This is because even if he just does scuttle and then rotates to the other side of the map
You'll see him move back through the pix award letting you know he didn't steal your blue
Even though Tarzan's blue is warded. It really isn't necessary. All you need is the pixel brush ward
So what do you do if your blue is being invaded?
You need to respond by invading the enemy blue as fast as possible. This is why Tarzan smites is red
It's to get him there faster. We also see him going through the top brush instead of the ramp near mid lane
This is for two reasons firstly you avoid the enemy pixel brush ward spotting you?
Secondly, if the enemy jungler is just doing scuttle and then rotating back to his own blue
You can simply turn around and move back to your crog's and continue with the route as normal
Anyways, Tarzan skip scuttle since the priority is securing that blue buff
Lee sin gets spotted again in the pixel ward
Tarzan is going to be paying close attention to see if Lee sin is moving to the side of the map as we can see
Lee sin doesn't and is now committing to the bot side of the map
This is what analysts refer to as a vertical jungling
Vertical jungling is easy to understand to visualize it just draw a line through mid lane in this example
Hecarim gets the top side of the map and Lee sin gets the bot side of the map
This is the opposite of the standard horizontal jungling
Everyone is used to which can be visualized if you draw a line through the river
We're junglers have access to both top and bought quadrants of their own jungles
The key idea here behind vertical jungling is that you're assuming all your camps are taken on the other side of the map
So there's no point of going there instead you're treating the enemy camps like your own after clearing blue Tarzan does scuttle
This is just a heal off of it since it doesn't do damage back to him
He sees gangplank completely overextended top and commits to the free kill otherwise he would have just stolen two enemies grump and wolves
After killing gangplank, he helped scientists the wave and then goes to clear his crux
Then he sees Lysa and gank bot. So what do you think he should do?
Again the map has been split in half vertically, so he simply moves into the enemy jungle to steal his grump and wolves
So to summarize when your blue gets invaded
Then you need to respond by invading their blue
splitting the map in half
Vertically in this way for every camp the enemy steals you steal one back for yourself at the same time
You're able to match aggressive early ganks by the enemy with ganks of your own on the side of the map. You control
All right, before we end the video, let's quickly talk about three things. You can do to shut down this strategy first
You can try to land an early gank before the three minute mark as there's no way for the enemy jungler to respond to it
Second try starting red and then invading their blue to steal it
however
Go through the side lane try brush and set up through the ramp near mid this way
The pixel brush ward won't spot you and they won't respond by invading your own blue buff
Lastly be aware of the three minute and 15 second timing window
This is when they finish blue and are looking to gank you can back ping teammates that are overextended
Counter gank if possible, or you can look for counter play on the other side of the map
We covered a lot in this video. So let's briefly recap
We begin our route by farming the entirety of the red side of our jungle once finished
We then recalled back to base. We purchase boots to give us access to our predator rune
Well as a pink ward and then head to our blue after killing blue
We looked a gank with their predator boots active while simultaneously using our early pink ward to control vision if no ganks are available
We can easily transition back into efficiently farming that being said the main
Vulnerability of this route is having our blue invaded before we can get to that side of the map
however
As long as we spot the invade with a standard pixel brush ward were able to equalize by invading the enemy's jungle
If you're playing against the strategy try ganking early
invading through the side Lane tribe rush and being aware of the 3 minute and 15 second mark
That's going to be it for this video. We hope you enjoyed it and good luck and have fun on summoners rift