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That one turned epic. We went down two inhibitors but managed to come back. Everyone was patient and stuck with it. Not much chatter in chat other than me doing some traffic direction around objectives. Even I kind of lost sight of what to do after we couldn't finish with our second Baron Nashor and an Elder Dragon. My Guardian Angel got popped and I died to a flipping

Jungle experience changes:

I think I am feeling it to some degree. Or at least theree are times I've noticed solo laners having a two level lead on me even when I would have been farming efficiently under the old experience system. Will have to watch some high level streamers and see what they've worked out. For the moment it looks like most of them are doing the same thing they used to do and haven't commented much on the changes.

Jungle playstyle:

I know what feels good. Counterpicking the enemy jungler with someone that can harrass them early and having lane priority. Those games feel like guaranteed steam rolls since you can keep the enemy jungler out of the game for a long time and get laners that support you ahead at the same time.

Losing lanes or having laners that just can't pilot their champions as well as they should in a particular match-up feels bad as it makes it hard to be proactive.


Sylas

Kit is actually pretty fun since he he has a clear combo and can proc his…

I've been trying out some Pyke to try to understand this champion that seems to 1v9 my team when on the enemy team and be pretty useless when they are on my team.

Gotta say that I feel like it is going to take more than 6 games.

I got yelled at on my first game by the

Let's start with a preamble.

I don't like invading in most cases. It is too high risk. You stand to lose as much or more as you gain and you throw the entire jungle pathing out of whack so you and your jungler will have less of an idea of what pathing the enemy jungler will use.

But if you learn to setup properly to make yourself aware that an invade is occurring you will increase your likelihood of winning games. High percentage.

So this discussion is for everyone, not just junglers.

As soon as the game begins buy and be ready to run out of base as soon as the fountain wall falls at the 15 seconds mark.

As a jungler I ask my team in chat to cover the jungle

cover jg pls
Starting [Red or Blue] Buff

We are going to assume no special considerations like your Bot lane wanting to be in lane when the minion waves meet so that they can get a push verses the enemy lane or a Sion that wants to suicide on the enemies opposite buff.

If everyone goes where they are supposed to, it shou…

I still need a map. Every time I get coaching this becomes readily apparent to me.

If I were to give a map to a new player it would look something like this.

Play a few Bot games to familiarize yourself with the the map, the controls, and the very basics of laning.

But don't spend a lot of time on Bots.

Start playing PvP as soon as you know which direction the enemy nexus lies in.

And don't expect to win right off the bat. That comes later.

Play in all the lanes and familiarize yourself with the characters that typically show up there.

If you really like one champion's kit. Great. The next step is to pick 1-2 champions and a lane.

Ideally, pick something that is strong in the META but not so strong that it is banned often.

The simpler the better.

Just as examples:

Garen and Malphite for Top lane

-I did decently at thinking about what I wanted to do at least as far as the early game went.
-I had a couple of flubs on this in the Mid game that cost us two Drakes, one of which was an Infernal.
-I need to direct my team if I see them in the wrong place or using too many resources in the wrong place.
-I need to move to the edge of the fountain when buying.
-The gamble I took to secure the first infernal drake was too big of a gamble with the information I had and the resources I had available.
-Did remember to drink my potions a couple of times when it was imporant
-Did fail to use my Stopwatch when it was important (use your actives!)
-Try to communicate with your laners what you need in the early game.
--Ask them to cover your jungle
--Ask them to ward the opposite side scuttle crab
--Tell them to collapse on them if they see them
--It makes the enemy jungler feel like they can't count on their team (the enemy Kindred pinged the heck out her Zed)

Above all decide which lanes …

I don't think Riot really thought about the impact of missions in Onslaught.

The other modes are fine.

But having the missions be asynchronous with respect with the community was a horrible design choice.

To explain. You work your way up to earning five augments, each of which modifies a basic ability in some way. For instance Ziggs can get an augment called Hex Healing that makes his Hexplosive Minefield heal his allies.

Honestly pretty neat. You get the augments through playing (actually I think there is a pack in the store that allows you to buy them all without playing, but don't do that unless you've got the spare cash and don't have the time to play the game that much).

There are several different difficulty levels:

Intro, Cadet, Crewmember, Captain, Onslaught.

And you have to earn your way into the next level up.

And it was fine. Then today I got into Onslaught for the first time.

Oh, boy! So all I want to do is win a game with all my shiny unlocked augments.

And …

I want to talk about one of the most tilt inducing thing in the game for your jungler.

Say you jungler hands you first blood on a platter and then returns for a gank and hands you another kill.

And wards up the enemy jungle so you can an incoming gank early.

Do not do something stupid to throw you lead. Protect your lead.

This includes things like not taking a bad trade just before their jungler will show up to gank you.

They will try to gank you if you are trading with them enemy laner because you will have lost some health and some of your abilities will be on cool down.

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I gave our Yasuo first blood and a 2nd kill on

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 fin…

Nunu & Willump is now a CC monster that can get around the map very fast, has amazing neutral objective control, and zone control. In short they took everything that made old