Jungle is a role thats all about optimizing your time spent between farming camps, ganks and other
objectives on the map. So we often talk about how to speed up your clears, make your ganks better,
when to do dragon, etc. However, what if you told you, that one of the most important skills that
every jungler needs to master and the one that most of them never do, is actually how to Lane.
Well that might not make a ton of sense right now but by the end of the video,
it should, and were going to give you plenty of examples that show how, and why not knowing how
to lane is costing you tons of games as a jungler. but before we get into that, lets talk about our
question of the day. What role do you think has the most important synergy with jungle,
and why? Personally i think its mid, just from the fact that mid can always move to plays with
you and their priority heavily influences what plays you can make on the map, however,
top lane and jungle is a notoriously strong combo just because of the dive and regank potential.
support has similar strenghts as mid, since they can always roam around with you as well.
Theres really no RIGHT answer here but we'd love to hear your thoughts, let us know in the
comments below! with that, lets jump right in. for our first example weve got a gold elo vi
vs a hecarim. Vi starts at blue and we can likely say that hecarim also started botside
due to the enemy bot lane showing late. While vi is clearing towards topside,
darius takes a bunch of trades, ends up dying to the enemy malphite, and both of them blow flash.
he does teleport back after respawning though and manages to get a return kill onto the malphite.
Because of this vi is able to safely grab top crab, having the enemy top lane dead
and neeko with full push priority. So from here, what would you look to do if youre vi?
A lot of you, and the player actually piloting vi would say that aiming to get double crab
is the best play here. However, there are a few interactions that we really need to
consider before we make that assumption Getting double crab IS usually good,
however, in this case, vis raptors are still up, and if we cross through to get bot crab,
were leaving ourself open to getting counter jungled, completely neutralizing
the advantage of getting both crabs This already makes going to bot side not
that great here, but an even bigger deal is our top lane lane state now. Darius died first in this
interaction, and then teleported back. This means that he didn't have any gold to spend and hasnt
bought any items at all. Malphite on the other hand got a kill, as well as some cs before dying,
meaning that when he teleports back, he actually has a significant item advantage over darius,
even though they technically have roughly the same amount of gold, malphite has spent it
Kills arent really an important part of the game, its what happens
AFTER the kill that really matters. in fact, ganks arent even always about
getting kills, youll often see that at high level, junglers will show up just
to help push out a wave because thats what the laner needs in order to stabilize their game.
In this case, darius needs to recall in order to equalize the advantage,
and with a huge wave coming into his tower hes not going to get a great chance to do that until he
pushes out again and crashes onto the enemy tower. We know based on this lane state that darius wave
will 100% push back towards malphite, meaning hes going to HAVE to overextend. Couple this with the
fact that hecarim is also pathing towards top side, and neither top lane has flash,
we're essentially just handing the enemy jungler a free kill. From here malphite can
just recall and let the wave come to him, or he can push out. Either way he denies darius
a ton of gold and xp through the wave. Gold is always important in league,
but even more important early on is experience. for early levels, you level up on every wave.
Which means that getting denied just ONE wave can completely lose you the lane. Junglers often dont
understand this, and wont do things to protect their laners from being denied extremely hard.
To put it into perspective, level ups give you stats, and stats cost money.
So by nature we can now assign a value to each level up. just the raw stats you gain from each
level alone are worth around 550 to 600 Gold depending on the champion. This means that ONE
wave is about equal to getting 2 kills. If we talk about the gold from last hitting that same wave,
youre only getting on average about 120 gold. Once again, its not really the kill itself that
matters, but what you can do AFTER the kill. In almost all cases, the lane state itself,
regarding minions, is going to be vastly more important than the gold gained. This is why
in high elo youll rarely see laners complain about junglers taking kills,
if it lets them put their wave in a favorable spot, theyre winning really hard regardless
Vi, not knowing this, goes to bot crab, unaware that shes basically going to trade a crab for over
3 kills worth of gold, and with what we know now, obviously this is a bad trade,
so what should she have done instead? After seeing the malphite teleport in,
it would be really easy to just rush a gank and try and kill him, then she can help darius push
out the wave and avoid this whole situation altogether. If she didnt have a ward to place
for hecarims counter gank, it would also be ok to go to her krugs to just sit around the area
and counter gank hecarim instead. Either way she could make sure darius doesnt get denied,
and the game would be much more stable. to make matters worse, right after the bot crab
she gets a successful gank off onto the enemy bot lane. However, she just walks away right after,
not thinking about what her laner needs to do to actually capitalize on that kill.
While they do get some gold from the kill, kaisa is unable to actually crash the wave.
Leaving it frozen basically right in front of the enemy tower. Not only would this be an
extremely easy gank for hecarim to now come in and get a double kill, shes going to be
denied the entire wave + some of the next as well. We already mentioned before how valuable one wave
in top lane would be for darius, but because this is bot lane, its even MORE important.
Shared xp is not a 50% split, meaning that when 2 people get experience for the wave,
in this case sona and kaisa, you actually get around 125% value, meaning that denial in bot
lane has an even bigger impact and this wave is worth more gold than the top lane wave.
Our particularly wave savvy viewers might have also noticed something pretty important
during this last clip. If you were paying close attention, youd see that sona isnt helping to hit
the wave at all. So its likely that if she were to help, or kaisa pinged, or tried to push faster,
that they probably couldave pushed the wave and gotten it to crash
And this is where we have to put a very important reminder. you are playing solo queue, and your
teammates, even as laners, also probably dont know what to do with their wave management. Even
at super high level, like challenger +, a lot of coaching revolves around just around waves. This
means that even if your teammates COULD do the right thing, dont expect them to. If you want
to carry, you need to simplify decisions for your teammates. If you get a gank and freezing the wave
is a viable punish, your teammate wont know that they should freeze, and theyll just break it and
not actually end up getting the maximum punish onto the enemy laner because they cant crash
the wave in time. Just push the wave with them, and dont rely on them making the right decision.
If you just crash the wave, you can guarantee that your laners will have a good time to base,
and in a lot of cases, you can ping or type to try and get them to recall.
In other words, dont leave the decision making up to them, if you know what the right call is,
and you know what your laner needs to do in order to win their lane, just do it for them. Its
mutually beneficial for you to get experience, and for your teammates to win off of it.
We know what youre going to say, my teammates will rage and type at me if i try to do this. And youre
definitely not incorrect, but as long as you are 100% sure that you know what to do with the wave,
do it anyways and just mute. I've been flamed tons of times while smurfing for helping my lanes,
because they dont realize im actually helping them. However,
it has won me a LOT more games than its costed me. Before we get to our next example we just want to
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For this example weve got another gold game with shaco vs master yi
Shaco has a great gank onto the enemy bot lane, resulting in a double kill,
as expected however, he does very little to actually help with the wave state after the gank.
This leaves our senna to manage the wave on her own. and again as expected,
she doesnt do a great job of that. She delays her push by a lot to go ward dragon for no reason
and then ends up having to use cooldowns to escape If you were shaco in this situation this entire
sequence couldave easily been avoided. He couldave pushed the lane immediately after the kill,
and while the wave is crashed, they would have an easy timer to do dragon with the death timers
and the wave. Instead, shaco ends up going back to camps and is on his wolves when his lane is
overextended, leaving them vulnerable He wouldave ideally wanted to be doing dragon while his bot
lane wave was pushed. Not only would it allow them to rotate over without missing anything,
he can cover them should a fight break out. Again, another perfect examples of why
simplifying the decisions your team has to make is so important. If you leave it up to
your teammates they will usually mess it up. We can take it upon ourselves to take
responsibility. If we dont expect our team to do the right thing, we shouldnt blame them when
they dont. we should blame ourselves for not just making the right thing happen.
We can pull plenty of other examples as well, heres another game where we have a gold rengar
He ganks bottom and gets a double kill for it, but as you can probably expect by now,
he doesnt do anything to impact the lane state This means that zilean is left alone to try and
fix the wave. Not only does zilean not know to spam auto to try and push as fast as possible to
deny the maximum amount of cs to the tower, rengar is also missing out on a HUGE amount of experience
and gold for absolutely no reason. He just gives over all of the resources to his support,
which, nice guy i guess but if youre playing rengar you really want all the gold you can get.
Its mutually beneficial here to take the resources to get the wave in a better spot quicker, and deny
more from the enemy laners. This delays zileans base by a lot, and he actually stays in lane,
not recalling at all. Rengar could have easily typed and told zilean to base after helping
him push the wave and then hed have much more pressure from his bot lane, instead zilean hasnt
taken advantage of any of the kill or wave gold he just acquired and isnt snowballing his lead.
Knowing what your laners need to do to win their lane is incredibly valuable, and noticing when
theyre messing up, and guiding them to the right play is something higher ranked players do a lot
in order to make their teammates perform better For one last example, just so you know how
often this really happens, weve got a hecarim into mundo matchup
In this game, hecarim finds a successful kill onto the enemy mid laner,
and we surely dont need to tell you now, but he doesnt help push the wave at all.
This leaves annie sitting at 250 hp to solo shove out the wave. Velkoz will get back soon,
missing very little for his death, and will actually have a quite easy time solo killing
annie, or freezing the wave from this position. Dont get us wrong, wave management is an extremely
difficult skill, theres no way that we can teach you everything about it in just one video,
but junglers often just think they dont need to know it, when its actually one of the most
valuable skills to master. We hope that this video has helped you think about the game in a different
light, and showed you why its important as a jungler, to still learn about how the
other roles in the game work. And for any laners watching this, its important that you understand
how jungle works as well. At high level, you need to know not just how your part works in
the machine that is the entire team, but how all of the other parts work with yours as well.
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