All the strongest junglers right now have the following:
* High clear speed and sustain
* Strong ganks or high jungle pressure, already at level 3
* Either strong late game or just being able to transition into a full tank
Before the most recent nerfs, the tier-1 junglers were
Rek'Sai,
Gragas with
Elise and
Nidalee following closely. Right now I'm not so sure how strong Reksai and Gragas are any more.
* High clear speed and sustain
* Strong ganks or high jungle pressure, already at level 3
* Either strong late game or just being able to transition into a full tank
Before the most recent nerfs, the tier-1 junglers were




1) If your afk farming for 18 mins.... that should result in a loss every time except at the lowest levels.
2) Strong ganks as Vynertje said. I recently transitioned from Volibear/udyr/jax to Xin and I have have an 80% jungle win rate. So good, I'm about to bring him into my main account.
You want a jungler who can CC or gap close. If you notice all of V's mentions have that ability.
3) At gold and below, its nice to have a jungler that is both tanky and can do damage. While Yi and Nid can hyper carry a game if fed, they should insta die in team fights if they aren't.
4)If you are gold are lower, I would try out Volibear, Gragas, Amu, J4. TAnky, easy to play, have CC, and can dish out a lot of damage if built right. If you build 1 damage item then full tank you can still do a ton of damage.
Elise, Lee Sin, are all good but take a lot more skill.
5) I'm personally a huge fan of hybrid AD junglers. Build any jungle item + Titanic Hydra + Boots + 3 health/resist items based on enemy team comp. Like Visage, Dead Mans, Cape, Banshee, etc.
6) If you got tanky, try and focus on peeling for you high damage dealers. I have had lots of games where I was the last player alive, but didn't have the damage to really push or end games. I find my win rate is a lot higher when I just peel for good damage dealers like ADC and APmids.
2) Strong ganks as Vynertje said. I recently transitioned from Volibear/udyr/jax to Xin and I have have an 80% jungle win rate. So good, I'm about to bring him into my main account.
You want a jungler who can CC or gap close. If you notice all of V's mentions have that ability.
3) At gold and below, its nice to have a jungler that is both tanky and can do damage. While Yi and Nid can hyper carry a game if fed, they should insta die in team fights if they aren't.
4)If you are gold are lower, I would try out Volibear, Gragas, Amu, J4. TAnky, easy to play, have CC, and can dish out a lot of damage if built right. If you build 1 damage item then full tank you can still do a ton of damage.
Elise, Lee Sin, are all good but take a lot more skill.
5) I'm personally a huge fan of hybrid AD junglers. Build any jungle item + Titanic Hydra + Boots + 3 health/resist items based on enemy team comp. Like Visage, Dead Mans, Cape, Banshee, etc.
6) If you got tanky, try and focus on peeling for you high damage dealers. I have had lots of games where I was the last player alive, but didn't have the damage to really push or end games. I find my win rate is a lot higher when I just peel for good damage dealers like ADC and APmids.
I used to care about KDA, now I care about CS and Objectives.
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