Views: 2031 Jungle Pathing: Where should I be?
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-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 you want to play around by which objectives are on the map and prioritize around where you team is strong. 1-4-1 ADC, 4-0-3 Mid laner. Focus around Mid lane and the objectives you can secure from there.
Your team is going to do silly things and even throw away leads and games. Sometimes you are going to have to direct them to do the right thing. If you are focusing on the right things:
-Which objectives
-How do I want to path there
-What can the enemy do under the circumstances
-And executing when you get there
You'll have more success and the games will feel like less of a roll of the dice.
Something I picked up from the coaching session I had today was after your first clear, think about which lanes you want to play around.
Why after your first clear? Because enough things are likely to have happened around the map to determine which lanes you have an advantage in, possibly through your efforts and possibly through your laners efforts or more likely a combination of the too.
So first point. At least in Gold ELO,



You take your Red with a leash starting at 1:30. You kill it by 1:45ish. You then have 10-20 seconds to kill before Scuttle spawns at the 2 minute mark so what are you going to do? Mid gank is generally the easiest. You can probably guarantee a blown flash if nothing else. If you can get a kill too, great. Go take Scuttle crab.
Now if you are smart you asked your Top laner nicely to ward the scuttle crab on the top side of the map at 125.

I told him if we spot her on the ward we can all come kill her. He liked that idea and warded.
We spotted Kindred on the ward, Olaf collapsed on her, she ran to Poppy. Poppy killed Olaf in the exchange, but I killed Kindred and by that time



Reviewing the replay of the game, I need to stand at the edge of the summoner's platform when buying. Midbeast literally only leaves one foot of his characters model on the platform. This is so I can cut out the distance from the center of the platform after I've completed my purchase.
Then I had to ask myself, which lane do I want to focus on?


I took Raptors while scoping out Mid lane. It didn't look like anything was going to happen in Mid lane (everyone was level 4 or so, and the action would likely go down around level 6) so I walked Bot lane and attempted a gank there to try and relieve some pressure since my laners were a little beat up. The enemy Bot lane handled the gank well, but I spotted the enemy


My Red wasn't quite up yet and since I didn't have anything else to do I jumped over the wall into the drake pit and soloed the Infernal. This was a pretty dicey choice as I did not have a


At about the 8:15 mark I was back in base after taking my Red and my Raptors so there was nothing on the Bot side of the map to get besides a tower. There was a Kindred mark on my Gromp and my Wolves and my Blue were also up. Now Olaf was not particular strong as he had died a number of times to



As it turns out there was a gank opportunity in Mid as



The gank didn't look like it would work so I back off and pinged my laners that I was backing off and I went and took my Raptors since a Kindred mark had spawned on them. My pal

I had a good chunk of gold on me so I returned to the fountain to spend my gold. On the way back out I hope my goal was Rift Herald. But Swain got chunked by Zed so I just went and ate the remaining wave in Mid. I saw a fight brewing in Bot lane so I headed there, but my laners died before I could get o the action.
Then Olaf caught Kindred trying to steal camps in my Top side jungle. Good guy

I moved over to assess the situation and parked myself in the bush near river thinking that I might try to cut


Should have probably taken Rift Herald after that. Instead I went and check out her jungle which was empty and I did not have any wards to place. On the way back out her raptors spawned so I took all except one. (Time not entirely wasted as it got me their Raptor camp and information about where Kindred might end up going - but I did NOT process it appropriately in order to act on it to the most benefit to my team - we lose a drake over this mistake).
I was still low from the fight so when Zed went on Swain I was eating up the river fruit because I didn't want to commit to trying to fight Zed on such low health. That may have been a mistake and if it was, sorry ol' pal

Full cleared my Top side jungle and then based. I was healthy at that point and could probably have taken Rift Herald or ganked

So after killing Poppy and Kindred we should definitely have taken Rift Herald, based to spend my gold, and then gone to my Bot side to look for the Drake. (So in this case counter jungling the Kindred prevented me from being there to kill Zed before he killed Swain and resulted in us losing the Drake).
Ran back to Top lane and ended up holding Top since Olaf had died again. I killed Poppy and held the tower with a sliver of health left on it. I decided at this point that I was going to try and get first tower gold, but Kindred showed up to push me off the tower. Walk back to deal with the Kindred mark on Gromp. I did not want to walk into the river directly because the enemy minion wave would have showed which way I was going. And then I finally at 16:32 minute mark (remember I wanted to do it around 9:50 when it spawned!) take the opportunity to start Rift Herald.
Kindred showed back up in Top lane to tower dive Olaf with Poppy. They ended up getting first tower. Olaf killed the Kindred and I and Swain teamed up to kill Poppy.
Still I'm pretty sure I should have gotten off of Rift Herald and gone to help Olaf as getting the first tower gives them a decent chunk of gold and Swain had walked up to support me. So that is probably one of those on the margins calls since we later used Rift Herald to take out their Mid lane inner turret and get a chunk of health from their Mid lane base turret, but I didn't know that would happen at the time.
With Swain away from Mid they take our Mid lane outer. I kill Zed. The rest of them get away. I base. Vayne goes full attack dog mode and chases Xayah, Swain misses two grabs, Vayne ends up dying. I run my wat to the fight. Kindred ults to survive and then




I should have had enough presence of mind to send a chunk of our team to our Mid turret. We only needed two to cut Poppy off. That was a mistake. Pay attention to if your team is allocating more resources than they need or are not doing it where it is needed. In my first ranked game of the day for some reason after we got Rift Herald my entire team ran up to a lane where we had already gotten the turret and all they did was eat the wave. I told the sillies to go to Mid lane where Rift would be useful since we wanted to use it to break the turret there.
My team chases them into our jungle mostly blind and gets wiped. We lose the Infernal Drake. So, not getting my team to the right place was a very costly mistake. We get some gold back when Olaf takes the Top outer turret.
I rotated to kill


I try for a flank, but think better of it. On the way back I run into Zed and almost kill him, but he gets away by going over the wall by Gromp. Their team rotates on me so I need to be out of there





We secure Baron and then a fight breaks out in Mid and we burn a lot of ults. I think my team realizes this so we back off and just start pushing out waves and taking jungle camps.
And Infernal Drake is up for grabs next. We get over their and their team is split. We go on Xayah and Nami and chunk them, but they managed to get out. I am my team gives chase and we lose the Infernal Drake. So another misplay. Afterwards we wipe them but I go down due to a wall slam from


I catch out








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