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When you are stuck in a rut as jungler there are some actions you can take to help get yourself squared away again.
Champion Guides
-Go find a guide on your favorite champion, read it, and if you have any questions ask the guide author.
I obviously prefer Mobafire and you may too since you are here. :-)
-Make sure your itemization, runes, and ability/lvl choices are up to date.
-If the guide doesn't have it or you just want to make sure you have the most current info possible, go update your knowledge of jungle pathing by finding a high level player clearing on youtube or by checking out their stream.
Youtubers and Twitch Steamers
-I Will Dominate has some good guides and he seems to have calmed down at least in the videos that he has been posting.
-Virkayu has some good information on various aspects of jungling.
-Tarzaned's coaching sessions are usually more useful to me than his youtube highlights (though I have occasionally picked up a thing or two from the later).
Go find a one or oneish trick on that champion and see if you can find any videos of them playing the champion that you are interested in our catch their stream if they have one.
OP GG
op.gg has a champions tab and on the right towards the bottom they have a list of champion masters.
Though note that if the champion got nerfed at some point during the season you might see that they have a bunch of games played on the champion but they haven't played it recently, so you might have to go down on the list a bit to find someone that is hardcore and has stuck with the champion despite the nerfs.
Reddit Champion Mains
You can also go check out say Kayn mains on reddit. Though some of those sites are more active than others. But sometimes they have a discord link that is more active.
Try to pick the brains of people that play your champion of choice a lot. Ask them about match-ups, pathing, timings, power spikes, combos, things they practice routinely in the practice tool, etc.
Coaching
If you have the time and resources, coaching is another option. Some of it is availble for free.
I am not affilated with the site, but I did aquire coaching services last season from League Coaching and it helped me realize that I was atrocious at keeping up my farm in the mid game among a few other details. I've got a blog post about it if you are interested.
Things I've picked up somewhat recently
I've played a lot of Udyr over the years, but only within the last year or so did I finally understand the 4 hits and switch stance aspect of his kit and how on top of movement speed his passive, Bridge Between, gives him a large attack speed bonus .
I also learned a tip that if you are camping a bush and your target steps in range to pop W, Iron Mantle, before you exit the bush and switch to E, Blazing Stampede, to stun them then follow up with Q, Wilding Claw, and then orb walking with them to try and finish off the kill using your fully stacked passive and your Phase Rush if you've chosen to use that keystone. The trick is that the shield from turtle stance persists for 5 seconds after you switch stances so you can use that to mitigate some of their retaliatory damage.
Little things like this can make the difference between a successful gank and a won game and the sad song of a missed opportunity.
So, if you feel like you are in a rut, take heart. There are resources out there to help you get your mojo back and start winning more games.
Champion Guides
-Go find a guide on your favorite champion, read it, and if you have any questions ask the guide author.
I obviously prefer Mobafire and you may too since you are here. :-)
-Make sure your itemization, runes, and ability/lvl choices are up to date.
-If the guide doesn't have it or you just want to make sure you have the most current info possible, go update your knowledge of jungle pathing by finding a high level player clearing on youtube or by checking out their stream.
Youtubers and Twitch Steamers
-I Will Dominate has some good guides and he seems to have calmed down at least in the videos that he has been posting.
-Virkayu has some good information on various aspects of jungling.
-Tarzaned's coaching sessions are usually more useful to me than his youtube highlights (though I have occasionally picked up a thing or two from the later).
Go find a one or oneish trick on that champion and see if you can find any videos of them playing the champion that you are interested in our catch their stream if they have one.
OP GG
op.gg has a champions tab and on the right towards the bottom they have a list of champion masters.
Though note that if the champion got nerfed at some point during the season you might see that they have a bunch of games played on the champion but they haven't played it recently, so you might have to go down on the list a bit to find someone that is hardcore and has stuck with the champion despite the nerfs.
Reddit Champion Mains
You can also go check out say Kayn mains on reddit. Though some of those sites are more active than others. But sometimes they have a discord link that is more active.
Try to pick the brains of people that play your champion of choice a lot. Ask them about match-ups, pathing, timings, power spikes, combos, things they practice routinely in the practice tool, etc.
Coaching
If you have the time and resources, coaching is another option. Some of it is availble for free.
I am not affilated with the site, but I did aquire coaching services last season from League Coaching and it helped me realize that I was atrocious at keeping up my farm in the mid game among a few other details. I've got a blog post about it if you are interested.
Things I've picked up somewhat recently
I've played a lot of
Udyr over the years, but only within the last year or so did I finally understand the 4 hits and switch stance aspect of his kit and how on top of movement speed his passive, Bridge Between, gives him a large attack speed bonus .I also learned a tip that if you are camping a bush and your target steps in range to pop W,
Iron Mantle, before you exit the bush and switch to E, Blazing Stampede, to stun them then follow up with Q, Wilding Claw, and then orb walking with them to try and finish off the kill using your fully stacked passive and your Phase Rush if you've chosen to use that keystone. The trick is that the shield from turtle stance persists for 5 seconds after you switch stances so you can use that to mitigate some of their retaliatory damage.Little things like this can make the difference between a successful gank and a won game and the sad song of a missed opportunity.
So, if you feel like you are in a rut, take heart. There are resources out there to help you get your mojo back and start winning more games.
So I took my own advice when the other things I had tried (looking at pathing, reading guides, watching streammers, etc.,.) weren't doing the trick for me.
Then make a point to take Krugs early and often as they give a lot of gold and XP. Enough to make up the difference in not getting scuttle crabs.
So do something like:
Ask your opposite side of the map character to either ward your opposite buff or the pixel brush or the scuttle spawn point on that side of the map. People will do various things even if you tell them exactly where to ward. Don't get too hung up on it. I have actually had good luck with my laner on that side of the map warding the bush beside my buff. Either picked up several kills when they go to try to steal my Blue or at least have the knowledge that I need to jungle vertically and steal their opposite buff and the jungle on that side of the map if I have sufficient lane priority.
So the actual route looks something like this:
Red > Krugs > check scuttle and take if it is free > Raptors > Wolves > Blue > check scuttle on that side of the map and take it if is free > look to gank or go back and finish off Gromp.
If you do this you want to try and take Krugs on spawn because they spawn in at a higher level and hence give more XP.
Variations on this usually involve getting a gank off after clearing their side of the jungle if notice them invading you or collapsing on them at your opposite buff and killing them.
So Red > Krugs > check scuttle and take if free > spot them on a ward > ping them if your laners have priority so the wave is in a decent spot for them and collapse on them > or > if your laners don't have priority nab their blue buff and get out > raptors > wolves > gromp > since your Blue is likely gone. This way you should still be even in camps or close even though you lost your own blue.
An interesting thing from this route is that you have the exact timer on their blue while they do not and they have the exact timer on your blue while you do not. So you can either look to preemptively steal their blue or set a trap at your Blue when they come to try and collect it. Mind games baby!