Ok, in an attempt to become a better LoL player, I'm looking for friendly advice as to how to better counter jungle. I've been playing Kha'Zix, Lee Sin, and Shaco lately.

As Lee Sin I find it pretty easy to counter jungle since he has amazing early game damage and a slippery champion with his Q and W. I try to catch them at Red buff and I can kill them before they use Smite on it, taking them out AND stealing their red. Next, counter jungling with Shaco is fun, able to deal tons of damage if the enemy is caught in the right position, and as Kha'Zix, I can't seem... Read More

Now I consider myself an avid Kha'Zix player, particularly in the Jungle. However, I've noticed that whenever there is a Master Yi that is a jungler on the other team, he constantly counter jungles me and beats me. Every time. Granted this has happened only twice, but both times I was slaughtered in the same fashion. Here's a bit of info to describe my situations...

He always catches me at red buff, killing both me and stealing my buff. I know that this is because of a ward, because he uses Alpha Strike at exactly the right moment. So I plant a ward around my red and blue... Read More

Seriously, ever since the preseason 3 patch, NO ONE is jungling. I see the occasional jungler and that's awesome. But it's usually 1 out of 5 games that I see a jungler on the other team. As an avid jungler, this is obnoxious to gank a 2v1 lane. Not that I can't but it's just annoying.

Finally I asked someone WHY they no longer jungle. Their answer: "Jungling is too hard now" and when I tried to rebuttal, they added, "Blue buff almost killed me..." and I nearly s*** myself. He told me when he jungled he didn't use Smite and that just floored me.

But seriously, NO... Read More