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Wild Rift Jungle Guide
The Jungle role is the engine of the team, providing map control, pressure, and objective control. As a jungler, you dictate the tempo of the game, enabling your lanes to succeed and securing key objectives like Dragons, Rift Herald, and Baron Nashor. Success in the jungle relies on pathing efficiency, map awareness, gank timing, and objective control. This guide focuses on the fundamental concepts you need to master to dominate as a jungler.
Jungle Pathing and Efficiency
Your jungle path determines how quickly you clear camps, how early you can gank, and how effectively you can pressure the map. Efficient pathing ensures you maximize experience, gold, and impact. Your main goal is to clear your jungle camps to get ahead in gold. When all your camps are down, that is the optimal time to help your team, however, it often does not line up that way and you may need to adapt your pathing to assist your team more.
Optimal Jungle Pathing
Your pathing depends on your champion and game plan:
Full Clear: Champions like Kayn, Master Yi, and Graves benefit from clearing all camps in one rotation to hit their power spikes quickly.
Early Gank Path: Champions like Jarvan IV, Xin Zhao, or Lee Sin thrive with early aggression, however, in the early game you need to make sure you are clearing your camps and only going for ganks that will lead to kills.
Invading: If your team has strong lane priority, you can invade the enemy jungle on one side of the map and deny them camps. This strategy requires excellent map awareness and ward coverage.
Adaptability in Pathing
Be ready to adapt your pathing based on the game state:
If a lane is overextending, consider skipping camps to gank early.
If your laners are being pushed in, prioritize farming safely and covering lanes to prevent dives.
Track the enemy jungler and adjust your path to counter their movements, such as securing Scuttle Crabs or stealing camps on the opposite side of the map.
Keep in mind you need to continue to farm your jungle camps until you are full built. A lot of bad junglers fall in the habit of constantly looking for fights and missing out on jungle farm, falling behind.
Jungle Tracking
Understanding where the enemy jungler is at all times allows you to plan ganks, avoid counterganks, and secure objectives safely. Use the following strategies to track them:
Jungle Timers
Jungle camps spawn at specific intervals:
Buffs: 2 minutes and 30 seconds after being taken.
Smaller Camps: 1 minute and 45 seconds after being taken.
By noting when the enemy takes their camps, you can estimate their position and plan accordingly. For example, if you see the enemy jungler ganking bot lane and their top-side camps are up, you can invade their top jungle to steal camps.
Scuttle Crab Priority
The Scuttle Crab provides vision and gold, making it a contested objective in the early game. If you have strong lane priority, secure the Scuttle Crab and use it to track the enemy jungler. If you’re at risk of being contested, call for help from your laners or opt for the opposite Scuttle.
Ganking
Effective ganks are one of the jungler’s primary responsibilities. A successful gank can snowball your laners and create pressure across the map.
When to Gank
Look for the following indicators to decide when to gank:
Lane Priority: If your laner has pushed the wave under the enemy turret, it’s usually not a good time to gank. Wait until the wave resets or focus on other lanes.
Overextended Enemies: If the enemy laner is far from their turret without vision, they are a prime target for a gank.
Crowd Control: Gank lanes with strong CC (e.g., Nautilus bot lane or Renekton top) for a higher chance of securing kills.
Summoner Spells: Prioritize ganking lanes where enemies have used Flash or other defensive spells.
Keep in mind that you should be playing around your winning lanes. This way if the enemy jungles comes for a counter gank, you will win the 2v2. If you play around losing lanes you risk the enemy jungler showing up, losing the 2v2, and being set behind.
How to Execute a Gank
Ping Your Intentions: Let your laners know you’re coming by using the "On My Way" ping.
Approach Safely: Use jungle paths and brushes to avoid being seen. If the river is warded, look for alternative paths like lane brushes or blast cones.
Coordinate with Your Laner: Wait for your laner to engage or use crowd control before committing to the gank.
Secure the Kill or Force Summoner Spells: Even if the gank doesn’t result in a kill, forcing the enemy to use Flash or heal makes them more vulnerable to future ganks.