The Role of the Jungler

Junglers are becoming quite popular within Conquest mode now, whether it be just the one or two. Having a Jungler in your team can work to your teams advantage if they know what they are doing and have all the key attributes associated with the Jungler role.

So What Is The Jungler's Role?
The Jungler has the role of attacking the camps in the jungle thus gaining their experience and leveling from the camps and providing buffs for their team. The Jungler does not just kill the buff camps though, they play a vital part in helping their team, not only by providing the buffs, but by also providing ganks to help their laned allies push. NEVER does a Jungler only stay in jungle and just take out camps, the Jungler needs to be ganking lanes whenever an opportunity arrises.

What Attributes Do You Need To Be A Good Jungler?
First off you need to have a decent God, picking someone like Ymir as a Jungler is not the best decision you could make. The more experience you have, the better! Not just as the god but experience in the jungle (I still confuse myself in the jungle a fair bit).

Map awareness is a vital key as the Jungler, you need to know who is where, what lane is pushing/being pushed, and where there is an opening for a gank. This requires quick decision making, you need to know when is the right time to gank and what you're going to do, once you go in for a gank you must follow through with it. An important fact about ganking with the Jungler is, you must get the kill, if not you will fall a bit behind in experience with every failed gank.

Communication within the whole team is a must! Your team needs to know when you are ganking, and you need to know when they need you to gank. You also need to communicate with the team, telling them which buffs are up as there is only a 30 second sitting time limit on buffs before they disappear.

Camp awareness is the key essential to being the Jungler, you need to know when they will re-spawn (Every 4 minutes or 2 minutes for the mid experience) and be prepared to take down all the camps as soon as possible, the longer the camps stay up the less experience the Jungler gets, thus making them fall behind in experience and could potentially leave you under leveled. It also means that the enemies Jungler has the opportunity to go into your camp, and take all your buffs, this will also cause you to fall behind in experience which could affect you late game.

How The Rest Of The Team Can Help The Jungler
First of all, worry about your own lane! It is not the Junglers responsibility to help you hold or push your lane, that is your sole responsibility as a laner. If you are having trouble in your lane communicate with the Jungler, and they will help you when they can.

It is also important when you know the Jungler is coming in to initiate, start the fight with the enemy, beating them down so that your Jungler can obtain the kill. It is better for the Jungler to get the kill than for a laner, this doesn't mean stop attacking completely when your Jungler ganks, just try and allow them to last hit the enemy.

Abusing your Jungler is not going to achieve anything, toxicity is contagious and does not benefit your team in anyway, the Jungler has a lot of responsibility, as you can see above there is a lot more to the Jungler role than "just killing camp mobs". The Jungler cannot be 3 places at once and will try and make the best decision possible, so if your Jungler is not ganking your lane, it obviously means you are having the least amount of trouble in the team.

Lastly, The Jungler does not stay in the jungle the entire game, when team fights start to break out the Jungler should rotate in with the rest of the team, but should still take note of the camps and their respawn especially the Gold Fury and the Fire Giant, which are good to keep warded at all times.

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