Predecessor – How to Jungle (For New Players)

Jungle Beginners Tips

By MooMuse

• Practice in player vs ai and min max // time attack your first full clear on every character you play in the jungle.
• You’ll notice that you have a relatively similar amount of time before the first white camp you took respawns
• 5-15 second difference total between the fastest and slowest clears.

The amount of time you have until that first white camp respawns is about how much time you have to do an action. I would do you best to be on that white camp within 10 seconds of it respawningSo you could full clear, into a side lane gank. Burn flash, perhaps secure first blood, but then guarantee your side lane (or yourself if you’re a scaling jungle) secures that side buff.

• If you secure a kill, help your laner shove, to give them a good reset.
• If the shove is too risky, asses the wave state based off the even minion rule (look it up. Videos on it everywhere. Common moba concept).

You can either help create a freeze (if you wanna reset and regank) or just guarantee that your laner loses much less than their opponent.

After you shove or create this freeze you can go secure the side buff and then reset.

You could also clear outwards into an early gank. (Typically done from solo lane side of the map) Reset into your other jungle quadrant. After securing first blood or burning a flash.

Note: If you only burn flash, don’t tax your laner

Whichever way you go with this style of full clearing /quadrant clearing. Every jungle reset you have about 30 seconds of action before you must restart the pathing to ensure you’re farming as efficiently as possible.

To summarize

• Practice your full clear speeds. A lot. Being as fast as possible. I’m talking 5 times in a row per hero you like. Red to blue full clearing the jungle.
• Assess the possibilities behind the time you have remaining before you have to reset your clear path.
• Study wave management and wave states and the “even minion rule” to help you understand how your jungling and your laners effect what each other can do.

Put these things together to develop a rhythm and tempo and start to hone it and alter it with subtleties based off situations that present themselves as matches progress.