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Recommended Items
Spells:
Smite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Salvation (PASSIVE)
Soraka Passive Ability
Introduction
Hello, my name is jpyee and this is my first guide on Mobafire starring Jungle Soraka - An unusual and underestimated jungler on 3s. Currently I am ranked solo queue Platinum V for S3. Thank you for taking the time to look through my guide and I hope it works for you!
-Am I Trolling?-
Compared to the traditional 5v5, jungle Soraka has much more viability on the Twisted Treeline due to the increased starting gold, passive mana regen buff given to every champion, the distance from the jungle camps from base AND the health of the jungle monsters compared to the jungle monsters on Summoner's Rift. This allows her to spam her

tl;dr: maybe a little... :)
Here is the results of Junglaka games taken from my recent match history as of 08/11/13:
Runes







Because most team comps on the Treeline are AD based, this skill is used to its full potential. Although two seconds is not much, it gives your allies or you much more survivability as compared to without it.




It's important that you initially start off with




This item is so overpowered on the Twisted Treeline as well as my now all time favorite item on this map as a jungler. Before the support revamp, I used to always run




Purchasing









So the enemy team is fully AD based. They even have a Tryndamere. In this case, these items are your go to for all your AD dreamcrushing needs with Randuin's' Health + AoE attack/movement speed reduction active/passive and Sunfire Capes' Health + 40 magic damage/second AoE aura. Since





You might want to consider purchasing these items if the enemy team's AP damage is troubling you. I used to always buy













To be a good jungler with Junglaka, there are a couple pieces you need to be familiar with.
First off...the essentials:
Map awareness - Keep in mind that many bushes aren't safe if three enemies are missing, or MIA. Never invade the enemy jungle if your teammates aren't in close proximity to help you or you risk an unnecessary death.
Pinging - Although they can sometimes be annoying, pings are very effective in signaling MIAs and pointing out dangerous areas. Its a good idea to use these and get into the habit of pinging as communication is key to winning games.
and now... Jungle Pathing:
As Junglaka, you want to first start at the Wraith camp, located on the map above. Have one of your teammates stand at the appropriate red star and the other teammate stand at the purple star for vision and protection. I usually never recommend a level 1 teamfight as it is very risky giving first blood to the enemy team. All camps spawn at 1:40, so at that point begin using your



tl;dr: Wraiths, Wolves (care for bush), Health Relic and Golems.
Soo....what do I do next?
Camps respawn every 50 seconds so by the time you've cleared out the golems, you have a significant chunk of time. What you do with it at this point is totally up to you. You can gank a lane (See ganking) while waiting for camps to respawn or go back and replenish health/mana and buy a couple items.
When augmented with






Although this may look weird, Junglaka seems to work best with two magic based damage champions to take full advantage of Soraka's
Starcall. At max rank,
Starcall reduces the magic resist of surrounding enemies by 6 (+1% AP) per stack (for a maximum of 10 stacks) for five seconds. Although its very unrealistic that you will manage to get 10 stacks on an enemy, its realistic that you will be able to apply 4 or 5 stacks in a teamfight. This is a minimum of 24/30 reduction in magic resist MINIMUM, about the amount of an abyssal scepter aura. Given that your teammates will get magic penetration items such as
Sorcerer's Shoes,
Void Staff and/or
Liandry's Torment and perhaps the mr reduction item
Abyssal Mask, magic resist will be to a minimum.
Lets take a situation where
Darius, a popular champion on the Twisted Treeline, buys
Mercury's Treads (+25 mr),
Maw of Malmortius (+40 mr),
Spirit Visage (+55 mr) and
Banshee's Veil (+55 mr) along with MR glyphs (+12 mr) and level 18 (+52.5 mr) to successfully become the tankiest mr monster on the map. Naturally, you REALLY shouldn't be focusing him... but for the sole purpose of calculation lets pretend that his entire team has been obliterated and your AP team catches him. :D
Darius total MR: 239.5 (TT_TT)
4 stacks of
Starcall: 239.5 - 48 = 191.5
Sorcerer's Shoes: 191.5 - 25 = 166.5
Liandry's Torment: 166.5 - 15 = 151.5
Abyssal Mask: 151.5 - 20 = 131.5
Assuming someone has
Exhaust augmented with
Summoner's Wrath
,
Exhaust: 131.5 - 10 = 121.5
Void Staff: 121.5 - 42.525 (35%) = 78.975
Now lets throw in some mr reducing skills and pretend your two teammates are
Ryze and
Amumu, both strong champions on the Twisted Treeline...
Spell Flux: 78.975 - 24 = 54.975
Cursed Touch (two autoattacks): 54.975 - 20 = 34.975
Darius would have around 35 mr from his original 239.5. That is about a decrease of 205 magic resist.
Starcall alone makes up roughly one fourth of that reduction... it's crazy! Keep in mind that not all your enemies will stack mr like this, meaning that you can reduce magic resist to zero or even make them have negative magic resist... :D






Lets take a situation where





Darius total MR: 239.5 (TT_TT)
4 stacks of




Assuming someone has




Now lets throw in some mr reducing skills and pretend your two teammates are




Darius would have around 35 mr from his original 239.5. That is about a decrease of 205 magic resist.

Ganking
Jungle Soraka is a mid to late game character on the Twisted Treeline. Unlike many other champions, her ganks, unfortunately, aren't stellar. This means you will want to come into lanes with a support-like mindset and gank not always hoping to give your ally laner a kill (but its always nice if you manage to) but a free lane to free farm. Pulling off a successful situation like this can put your ally two levels or more ahead of the enemy laner(s), which is a huge advantage for your team on this map.
Top Lane
This lane is typically much easier to gank than bot lane. Usually, one champion from each team is found up there and you taking advantage of one careless overextension can put your team in a good lead.
Bot Lane
This lane is always harder to gank for Soraka because typically in normal 3s you see a lot of duo kill lane bot, meaning two people in bot lane (and ususally missing a lot of farm lolol)
Team Fights
Early
Many of you know that Soraka is naturally squishy. As a result you will most likely die if you run into a teamfight without some of your core items. Try not to force or engage teamfights until mid to late game.
Mid and Later
So a few altars have been exchanged and a couple of towers have collapsed. By this point in the game team fights will be more prevalent and hopefully you have another core item or two. Once you get your Rylais, Soraka transforms into what I like to call l33tbbq Peelraka; not only does her Q reduce MR on each successful land, it becomes an AoE slow! Combined with your silence you become the most annoying champion on the map, resulting in enemies focusing you. Because of your tankiness, single heal and global heal, you will most likely survive the butthurt rampage long enough for your teammates to dish out the real damage.
Jungle Soraka is a mid to late game character on the Twisted Treeline. Unlike many other champions, her ganks, unfortunately, aren't stellar. This means you will want to come into lanes with a support-like mindset and gank not always hoping to give your ally laner a kill (but its always nice if you manage to) but a free lane to free farm. Pulling off a successful situation like this can put your ally two levels or more ahead of the enemy laner(s), which is a huge advantage for your team on this map.
Top Lane
This lane is typically much easier to gank than bot lane. Usually, one champion from each team is found up there and you taking advantage of one careless overextension can put your team in a good lead.
Bot Lane
This lane is always harder to gank for Soraka because typically in normal 3s you see a lot of duo kill lane bot, meaning two people in bot lane (and ususally missing a lot of farm lolol)
Team Fights
Early
Many of you know that Soraka is naturally squishy. As a result you will most likely die if you run into a teamfight without some of your core items. Try not to force or engage teamfights until mid to late game.
Mid and Later
So a few altars have been exchanged and a couple of towers have collapsed. By this point in the game team fights will be more prevalent and hopefully you have another core item or two. Once you get your Rylais, Soraka transforms into what I like to call l33tbbq Peelraka; not only does her Q reduce MR on each successful land, it becomes an AoE slow! Combined with your silence you become the most annoying champion on the map, resulting in enemies focusing you. Because of your tankiness, single heal and global heal, you will most likely survive the butthurt rampage long enough for your teammates to dish out the real damage.
Junglaka is a very fun and a very odd jungler on 3s. Out of all the games I've played on the Twisted Treeline, my Junglaka games have been some of the more enjoyable ones. If you enjoyed using this guide, please upvote!
Also special thanks to jhoijhoi's Making a Guide for the awesome templates and advice!
Best of luck with the Junglaka and I hope this guide worked for you!
- jpyee
Also special thanks to jhoijhoi's Making a Guide for the awesome templates and advice!
Best of luck with the Junglaka and I hope this guide worked for you!
- jpyee
01/09/14 - Phew... back after a long time of no updates. Updated for S4. Jungle Soraka still works!
08/12/13 - Changed initial spawn of jungle camps to 1:40 from 1:50.
08/11/13 - Added recent match history to "Introduction" section.
08/08/13 - Changed number of quints to 3 from 9.
- Fixed error in "When to Play Junglaka" section.
08/12/13 - Changed initial spawn of jungle camps to 1:40 from 1:50.
08/11/13 - Added recent match history to "Introduction" section.
08/08/13 - Changed number of quints to 3 from 9.
- Fixed error in "When to Play Junglaka" section.
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