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Embrace The Night | Diana Jungle S11

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Runes: Diver Setup (standard)

1 2 3

Precision

Conqueror

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Cosmic Insight

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Flash

Smite

Items

Starting Items

Snowballing

Vision

Late Game Elixer

Diver Build (Most Reliable)

Core Items

Boots

Against Healing

Against Tanks

Against fed AP Champions

For Dueling

Raw Damage

Example Full Build

Bruiser Build (Against Tanky Teams)

Core Items

Boots

Against Healing

Against Tanks

Dueling

Magic Resist

Armor

Raw Damage

Example Full Build

Ability Order

Diana Passive Ability

Table Of Contents

Introduction		Pros/Cons
Summoner Spells		Runes
Abilities		Items
Jungling		Teamfighting
Matchups		Conclusion

		About This Guide Hello there and welcome to my Diana jungle guide! I have been fond of Diana for a long time, but only now in Season 11 she became a competitive jungler. With this guide I'll try to offer a comprehensive resource for Diana jungle enthousiasts. The guide includes all champion specific knowledge as well as lots of general jungle knowledge. Those who know me may note that this work is somewhat different from my previous works. Most notably, it's not a multi-role guide. This was a concious decision, as I wanted to take a step back to further refine my content and try some new stuff. If people would be interested in seeing midlane Diana covered as well, than I'm definitely open to do so in the future.
		About The Author I am Silverman43, jungle main from EUW and playing since Season 7. I am also a fairly experienced guide writer, having won in 5 consecutive guide contests so far, and in several different categories. (Upon my 5th contest win I was granted a personalised Versatility Award!) I am also a MobaFire Moderator and member of the Scouts team. You can always contact me by leaving comments/questions at my guides, through DMs or you can easily find me at the MobaFire Discord server.

PROS

+ Teamfight Winning Ultimate

Landing a multi-man can single handedly win a teamfight. The AoE damage itself is already great, but the pull can be important setup for your teammates as well.

+ Fast Farmer

Due to her built in attack speed and bonus damage every third hit through , 's clearspeed ramps up significantly as she gains items and stats. With she also has a useful defensive tool to keep her healthy while clearing.

+ Easy To Learn

has a fairly straightforward kit, so she's easy to pick up. Despite being easy, she has enough depth to be fun, engaging and versatile. So she ends up being a strong pick in all elos.

CONS

- No Escape Tool

can easily go in with , but has no way out except for maybe. If you try to land a multi-man , you need to ensure there is followup and even then a is often necessary. Otherwise you'll get bursted down before you can pull your damage off.

- Hard To Play When Behind

All of 's damage except for requires her to be up close with the enemy. When behind it will be a lot harder to safely close in on enemies. 's shield is not gonna help that much. has no utility or reliable CC either.

- Not The Best Early Game

's only source of utility and a significant chunk of her burst damage is locked behind her ultimate. That and her bit slower first clear makes her somewhat vulnerable to early invades. Early game duelists like or can be a real pain.

Smite

is 100% mandatory on any jungler. Without it you can't buy your jungle item, meaning clearing camps will be a lot harder while providing less gold and experience. You also need to be able to contest neutral objectives such as the and . You do have the choice to upgrade into either or through your starting item though. More information in the item chapter.

Flash

is easily the best summoner spell on 95% of the champion roster, including . It can make up for her lack of an escape tool, while giving her an extra way to stick to targets or find opportunities for big plays.

Primary Rune Tree

Conqueror

Due to 's built in attack speed steroids and 's resets, she's able to stack really fast. It's fantastic for dueling and sustained skirmishes, which often happen around or . Even though ganks might be over too fast to really benefit from fully stacked , the stacking AP is not to be underestimated.

Triumph

Simply the best option in this row. SoloQ games are often very bloody, so extra gold on takedown is always great. And the small healing can mean the difference between life and death in close fights or in towerdives.

Legend: Alacrity

The extra attack speed increases your clear speed and is even more valuable due to 's fantastic synergy with attack speed through . Alternatively, this rune can be swapped out for against teams with high amounts of CC. But if you're in doubt, just stick with .

Coup de Grace

is simple and reliable. Great for increasing your burst damage even further. is a decent pick as well, especially on somewhat tankier bruiser builds, so you can fully benefit from it while low on HP.

Standard Secondary Rune Tree (Diver)

Magical Footwear

Free boots are always welcome. Especially when they grant bonus movement speed, which is extra valuable on junglers.

Cosmic Insight

This is the main reason why you'll want to go secondary for the diver build. Since you'll be building and , item haste is increadibly useful. Summoner spell haste (more casts of and !) is also a nice bonus.

Standard Secondary Rune Tree (Bruiser)

Sudden Impact

is always a decent pick. You'll be able to use at least once or twice in every fight, so it should be up very frequently. In bursty ganks/assassinations as well as long skirmishes.

Ravenous Hunter

Extra omnivamp alongside is great for the bruiser build. You'll be healthier while clearing and you can sustain more damage while fighting.

Defensive Secondary Rune Tree (Bruiser)

Shield Bash

Extra damage on your next auto attack every time you cast . When you detonate all 3 spheres, the shield renews, and so does . The bonus resistances while shielded are also not to be underestimated.

Revitalize

basically amplifies several parts of your kit and build. It boosts 's shield (and so ) while also boosting the healing from and .

Domination VS Resolve

Power-wise both setups are more or less equal. is the most popular choice, offering a balance between offensive power and sustain. is in my opinion being slept on, but it's a bit more on the defensive side. It's mostly up to preference. Try it out and see what you like.

Passive: Moonsilver Blade

permanently has bonus attack speed (scaling with level). After casting an ability, this attack speed bonus is tripled for 3 seconds.

Every third basic attack within 3.5 seconds cleaves nearby enemies for bonus magic damage.

's damage is increased on non-Epic monsters.

is a passive you don't have to pay too much mind to, but it's got a huge impact neverthless. The attack speed and AoE cleaving makes a fast farmer. In a fight it will also offer you decent sustained damage.

Tips

While clearing your jungle or when solo-ing an objective like the dragon early on, space your spells out. Always try to weave around 2 auto attacks in between casting spells. The attack speed increase will have a higher uptime, resulting in a faster clear.
This is more applicable as midlane Diana, but you can auto attack monsters/minions twice to stack your passive before going in to increase your burst damage.

Q: Crescent Strike

unleashes a bolt of lunar energy that travels in an arc before exploding at the target location, briefly granting sight of the area and dealing magic damage. Enemies hit are afflicted with Moonlight for 3 seconds, revealing them for the duration.

A simple, curved skillshot with decent AoE damage. This is your bread and butter spell, with low cooldown and solid base damage. You'll want to max this first since it scales decently and it's your main form of waveclear alongside .

Tips

By casting Flash immediately after Crescent Strike, you can 'redirect' the projectile. It will be cast from your new position instead, allowing you to basically extend its range for a surprise Crescent Strike and following Lunar Rush.
Note that Crescent Strike grants sight and reveals enemies. It's the perfect ability to check bushes or fog of war, giving her extra safety.

W: Pale Cascade

shields herself for up to 5 seconds and creates three spheres that orbit her for the duration, detonating upon contact with an enemy and dealing magic damage to nearby enemies upon detonation.

If all three spheres detonate, 's shield is reapplied, stacking with its original shield and refreshing the duration.

This is your defensive ability with its (double) shield, but also adds to your damage. The second part of the shield will only apply when you detonate all 3 spheres, so it requires you to play offensively with it, making a solid duelist. Both the damage and the shield scales fairly well and the cooldown decreases for a significant amount as well, so you'll want to max it second.

Tips

Pale Cascade can be cast during Lunar Rush' dash. For some fast burst you'll definitely want to do this. However, be careful not to cast it too early, as minion waves or other enemies/monsters can intercept the spheres mid-dash, decreasing your damage to the intended target.

E: Lunar Rush

dashes to the target enemy's location, and upon completion, she deals them magic damage and consumes Moonlight from all enemies. If the target is within 400 range, Diana will dash through their location.

If Moonlight is consumed from the target or they die mid-dash while being afflicted by Moonlight, 's cooldown is reduced to 0.5 seconds.

can cast any of her abilities during .

is your gapcloser. Its damage is negligible, but the fact that it can be reset and has quite long range makes it a powerful ability. Ideally, you'll always have access to at least 2 dashes per fight, considering you land your . That's why maxing it (and thus lowering its cooldown) isn't really a priority and usually maxed last.

Tips

You can cast other abilities while mid-dash, allowing you to cancel some animations. I already mentioned you can cast Pale Cascade mid-dash, but you can also cast Crescent Strike immediately when the dash starts, and it will be cast on the target immediately upon arrival. The downside is that it won't reset Lunar Rush though. In a same fashion you can cast Moonfall while dashing.
You can hop over walls with Lunar Rush. If you fight in the jungle, monster camps can be used as an escape tool, as long as you have vision of them though (or hit Crescent Strike on them). Strangely, you cannot dash to dragon or baron nashor over the wall (even though it looks to be in range), but you can dash towards the rift herald if you hit them with Crescent Strike first. The Herald will then walk towards the wall, so you can reach her.

R: Moonfall

reveals and draws in all nearby enemies, slowing them for 2 seconds.

If pulls an enemy champion, she calls down a beam of moonlight to strike upon the area around her after 1 second, dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies, increased for each champion pulled beyond the first.

is potentially one of the best ultimates in the game. If used correctly, it can decide teamfights by itself. Next to the huge AoE damage, it can also function as setup for teammates. 's is the most famous combo, but there are many more. The pull can also be used as a disruption tool, cancelling channels like or . You'll obviously want to put a point into whenever possible.

Tips

Like Crescent Strike, you can cast it and then immediately Flash, so Moonfall will cast from your new location.
The initial pull decides how much damage Moonfall will do. You can 'stack it' by pulling 3 frontliners for example, only to reposition with Lunar Rush or Flash and hit the squishy carry for the amplified damage instead.

Skill Sequence

1
Q

2

W

3

E

4
Q

5
Q

6

R

7
Q

8

W

9
Q

10

W

11

R

12

W

13

W

14

E

15

E

16

R

17

E

18

E

Like I said before: obviously has the highest priority. The first basic ability you'll max is for its solid base damage and frequent uptime. Then you should max for an increase in both damage and survivability. Lastly comes , which you'll only use for gapclosing anyway.

This order stays the same for the first 3 levels, starting means a faster clear (and little bit extra HP you would have from 's shield isn't really worth). At level 2 for sustain and extra AoE damage and at level 3 a single point in to enable ganking and dueling.

Combos

Extended Q

A simple yet useful mechanic. Cast and immediately press during its animation. The projectile will have an extended range, perfect for catching out fleeing targets.

Flash R

Similar to the Q mechanic. If you cast and immediately , it will cast from your new location. There doesn't even have to be a target in the AoE of your initial position, meaning that it's quite useful if enemies would dash/blink out of 's reach otherwise.

Standard Pre-6 Combo

The usual combo during ganks or to burst down squishy targets. Extra auto attacks at the end might be necessary to finish off targets. When the enemy has up or other mobility, it can be wise to hold onto your second cast until they used said mobility.

Extended Pre-6 Combo

A combo for dueling and extended fights with the intention to have your passive up for as long as possible. Of course in real situations you might not always be able to make perfect use of it, but you can easily proc 's cleave twice.

Standard Post-6 Combo

With available you will have great burst damage. A full rotation should be enough to make quick work of most enemies. You can weave in as many auto attacks as necessary. In the smoothest combos you'll be able to proc once or twice.

Teamfight Carry Dive

You can be really creative in your combos with and , but this is one of the most common and most reliable usages. It will often be quite difficult to reach fed carries (and survive for more than a second if you do), but thanks to your items and summoner spells it gets easier if you know what you're doing.

Starting Items

Emberknife

Your starting item will usually be . This means you'll gain access to after casting (regular) five times. It's especially good for dueling and sustained fights. So you'll want when the enemy team got multiple bruisers/tanks, when you play the bruiser build or when the enemy jungler is a strong duelist like or .

Hailblade

You can opt for over instead if you want more sticking power and upfront burst damage. Usually has enough mobility in her kit to not really need , but sometimes it's nice to have against really slippery champions. For example against a team with midlane, jungle and support.

Refillable Potion

With the spare gold left after purchasing your jungle item, you'll usually grab a . It's super cost efficient and it helps a lot during the first clear. And afterwards it will help you stay on the map longer.

Core Items (Diver)

Hextech Rocketbelt

Easily the best mythic item on . The active alone is super valuable as an extra gap closer, as an extra source of burst and most importantly as a way to hit on high priority targets in the backline. Stat wise the item is also incredible, offering all the stats you need, with magic penetration as its mythic passive on top of it. Some might think offers more burst damage, but the magic penetration from allows you consistently deal more damage.

Hextech Alternator

Ideally, you'll have over 1050 gold when you first recall, so you can buy a first. With a solid amount of AP and extra burst on the passive, it's the ideal early item.

Zhonya's Hourglass

The diver build focuses on heavy burst damage and great teamfighting potential with . is the ideal item to help you survive after you go in and unleash your damage, since it can buy you time while your team follows up. 95% of teams you encounter have at least some AD damage, so the armor isn't wasted either.

Core Items (Bruiser)

Nashor's Tooth

gives a lot more dueling power over raw burst. It also significantly boosts your clearspeed. It leaves you a bit sqhuishy, but it's still a great item to snowball early with, powerfarm and then transition into a somewhat tankier build.

Recurve Bow

Get this component first for dueling and clearspeed. It works best against somewhat tankier champions.

Blasting Wand

If you want to gank more or the enemies are squishy, then get some raw AP with a first.

Riftmaker

The standard mythic for AP bruisers. It excels in longer drawn out fights with its stacking (true) damage and sustain. Early game it's one of the weaker mythics, but since we build first part of its weakness gets avoided anyway. It scales pretty well and packs a decent amount of Omnivamp lategame.

Situational Items

Morellonomicon - VS Healing

With healing being almost omnipresent nowadays, is often a must buy. Against enchanters like or as well as self-healers such as Red , , or lifesteal building ADCs.

Oblivion Orb

If the enemy team got healing, but there are other items you need with higher priority, then just grab an and sit on it. Once the healing becomes too problematic, upgrade it into .

Void Staff - VS Tanks

It's a great damage option that really shines when the enemy team buys a lot of MR. With even ADCs often buying nowadays, this item has insane value for a fair costprice.

Demonic Embrace - VS Tanks

Another option that's solid against tanks or bruisers, but this one is better when they stack HP instead of MR. So while is often still good against squishies, is good against tanks specifically. It also grants some bonus resistances while in combat, so it's even better for the bruiser build.

Nashor's Tooth - Dueling

can also be a solid pick for the diver build. It's a somewhat greedy choice offering nothing but offense, but it gives you insane dueling power and sustained damage.

Cosmic Drive - Dueling

is not too reliant on AH since a single rotation of her abilities and decent use of her passive is enough to deal with most opponents. However, it can come in handy against tankier opponents you can't burst down at once and during longer duels. It's also a bit safer than stat-wise.

Rabadon's Deathcap - Raw Damage

is the ultimate late game item for any AP champion. It's expensive, but amplifies your damage by a lot. You should always look to buy it, but usually as one of your last items, unless you are extremely fed.

Horizon Focus - Raw Damage

Hitting a max range or simply using activates the bonus damage of . Although is the more reliable pure damage option, definitely can have a place in glass-cannon builds that focus on pulling that one perfect off.

Banshee's Veil - VS AP Burst

If the enemy team got a fed AP champion (with high burst damage), then is a solid pick up for its combination of MR and a spellshield. Be careful not to waste the spellshield by getting caught in a random minor spell though.

Verdant Barrier

If there are AP threats, but the enemy team is AD otherwise or if you can still deal with them, you can simply pick up a and sit on it. Upgrade it into when it's not enough anymore to deal with them.

Zhonya's Hourglass - VS AD Burst

Even if you play the bruiser build and it isn't really a core item, can still be useful as a later pickup. Build it whenever they have an AD burst threat or when you need the stasis effect.

Stopwatch

A itself can be really powerful if used correctly. Buy it for example when the enemy team keeps grouping as 5, so diving is dangerous. Note that you can only use it once before it 'breaks', but you can still upgrade it into .

Seeker's Armguard

The armor component, same thing as . You can buy it and sit on it whenever you need some armor. Upgrade when you feel you need more armor and/or the stasis.

Spirit Visage - VS AP

If you face heavy AP comps, especially as bruiser , then is a solid pick. It boosts heals and shields, so it works well with , and .

Dead Man's Plate - VS AD

One of the more offensive tank items, and especially good on junglers. Overall it helps you to pick fights more easily, grants you a little damage as well, all while making you beefier.

Thornmail - VS AD Healing

is the ultimate counter item against AD self-healing champions. Red , , , , ... can all be countered with it if they become too problematic. It's also a good choice whenever a fed enemy ADC builds lifesteal. (Often , , ...)

Bramble Vest

You can get a first if you're up against AD healing. If they become too problematic and you require stronger grievous wounds/more armor, then upgrade it into .

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes - Raw Damage

The standard boots on . 18 magic penetration on a cheap item has insane value, increasing your damage by a ton. In most cases (both against squishies and tanks) this is the best choice.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity - Utility and AH

Not my favorite option, but still worth mentioning due to how strong this item is on junglers in general. It gives a ton of AH, giving both more offensive power as more shields from . But the main thing is that it gives your summoner spells more uptime. More casts is good on any jungler and being able to use more often is great on .

Mercury's Treads - VS AP/CC

The defensive option when the enemy team is mainly AP or whenever they have a lot of CC such as , , , ...

Plated Steelcaps - VS AD

Good when the enemy team is mainly AD. It's especially good when they got many auto attack based champions such as , , , or most ADCs.

Boots

Dark Seal - Snowballing

You can get a early whenever you are snowballing or when you're able to fight a lot, so you can stack it. It's a high risk - high reward option though, and it delays your core items by a bit.

Mejai's Soulstealer

If you manage to snowball and stack , then you can upgrade it to snowball your lead even harder. I do not recommend doing this often since dying once can still completely screw you over. Only go for it when really fed and when they do not really have the means to kill you (unless you misplay hard).

Elixir of Sorcery - Raw Damage

At full build, you'll want to grab an elixir, with the most obvious choice being . It simply grants more damage and some mana regen, so always solid on .

Elixir of Iron - VS Burst/CC

Sometimes will offer you more value than raw damage. Being a bit beefier and having some tenacity can allow you to survive a little longer and end up dealing more damage in that time than you would have done with . Great against heavy burst damage.

Introduction to The Jungle	Jungle Routes
Ganking	Wave Management
Warding	Tracking
Objectives	Game Plan

Introduction to The Jungle

In this chapter I will go through the most basic jungle knowledge, namely the different jungle monsters, plants and the map itself. Experienced players may want to skip this chapter, but if you're new to the jungle role itself than this might be useful.

Gromp

The first Jungle camp consists of one monster, called the . It has high AS, but it decays over 5s. Because of the high AS, you want to kite it so can only attack you once before having to move again. This means you'll be able to trade one AA for one AA. It's one of the camps that grants a higher amount of gold and exp. Additionally, after killing it you will regain a bit of mana and HP.

Murk Wolves

The next camp is the camp. It contains one bigger wolf and two smaller wolves. You'll want to focus the bigger wolf, as AoE damage from , and will take care of the smaller ones at the same time.

Crimson Raptors

Similar to the camp. The camp contains a bigger monster and a few smaller ones. Auto attack one before you use , as it will be easier to hit all of them at once. With all your AoE damage you melt this camp.

Ancient Krugs

The camp is definitely a special camp. At first sight it only contains two monsters: a big and a smaller one. However, once you kill them, they split into 2 smaller monsters. The big monster can split twice, the smaller one only once. It is one of camps that provides the highest exp and gold of the non-epic monsters.

Rift Scuttler/Scuttle Crab

The last of the medium monsters, the is a passive monster that roams both sides of the river when it first spawns. After the initial two s have been killed, only one at a time will respawn at a random side. The has a shield that can be removed instantly by using hard CC, which lacks sadly. You can cast on it to instantly remove the shield though, but this will leave it vulnerable to getting stolen by the enemy jungler if they are near. Killing this monster creates a zone in the river that grants vision and MS.

Blue Sentinel

The is one of the most important non-epic monsters. The killer of this golem gets the . This buff, better known as "blue buff", grants extra mana/energy regen and AH. The monster itself isn't hard to kill, but it is quite tanky. The mana regen and AH from is really valuable, even though does not necessarily need much mana. If your midlaner is a mage (and doing well), then you might want to give the Blue buff later on in the game. It helps them a lot with waveclear.

Red Brambleback

Just like the , the grants a buff to the one who kills it. is usually referred to as "red buff" and makes your auto attacks slow champions while also dealing some extra damage over time. Additionally, you'll have some extra HP regen. Later on, you should give it to the ADC as they benefit the most from the on-hit slow and burn damage from . Early it's a really strong buff and can decide a 1v1 between junglers. It's also really good for ganking because of the slow.

One of the most valuable jungle monsters is the . Situated at the lower side of the map, they can appear in 4 different elemental forms, each giving an unique buff to your whole team. The first 2 types that spawn are random and are always of a different type, but after the second is defeated, only of a third type that hasn't appeared yet spawns. Additionally, the map transforms into an elemental rift, matching the third and following . After either team has defeated 4 , they'll gain a powerful dragon soul. From that point on, only the will spawn.

Cloud Drake

The first elemental dragon type is the . It is fast and has high DPS against single targets. Upon killing it, your team gains extra AH on their ultimate ability, which is great on and other champions with powerful ultimates such as , , ..., but not so good on shapeshifter champions like and .

The cloud rift contains air currents on the map that speed up nearby champions. Useful if you have to escape or dodge skillshots.

The Cloud Dragon Soul grants permanent extra MS and after casting your ultimate, you'll gain an extra burst of MS.

Infernal Drake

The is considered the most valuable elemental by many players. Combat wise, it's probably the most all round type. Note that it deals AoE damage. As bonus effect upon killing it, it increases your AD and AP with a percentage. Early game, it isn't really noticeable, but late game it can really make a difference.

The Infernal Rift comes with the destruction of several walls and brushes. No big things to note here, although this might be a small buff to champions without gapclosers through walls.

The Infernal Dragon Soul makes your next damaging attack or ability every few seconds explode, dealing some damage to the target and nearby enemies, scaling with AP, AD and bonus HP. A strong combat tool, great for a bursty diver like .

Ocean Drake

The deals slowing single target damage. The slow on its attacks makes it dangerous in some cases; as it will trouble you if you have to escape. The buff it grants restores some of your missing HP both in and out of combat.

The Ocean rift brings life, making brushes larger and possibly spawning the Honeyfruit plant in the jungle.

The Ocean Dragon Soul grants you a regeneration effect affecting both HP and mana after damaging an enemy.

Mountain Drake

The is the most tanky elemental , making it more time consuming to kill one. Its attacks are AoE and despite its low AS, the attacks hit hard. Its elemental buff gives your team an extra percentage MR and armor, which is always nice to have, especially when your team got some tanks or when you use tankier builds.

The Mountain Rift creates additional walls. The creation of more choke points can be in both in your advantage and in your disadvantage. becomes even more scary, but so do other abilities like , or while there's little space.

The Mountain Dragon Soul gives your team a shield scaling with AP, AD and bonus HP after not taking damage for 5s. It's a huge advantage in teamfights, just like The Infernal Dragon Soul.

Elder Dragon

Like mentioned before, the only spawns after one team has claimed a Dragon Soul. It is stronger than any elemental , but the reward for killing one is even better. It grants a buff that burns enemies after damaging them, but the biggest part is that it executes enemies below 20% of their HP. That is really strong and can turn a game around if the team that is behind somehow manages to get it.

Rift Herald

The spawns in the pit at the upper side of the map. It is quite tanky, but it can be defeated easily by prioritizing the eye at its back. Auto attacking the eye will chunk its HP. When killed, the drops the . It can only be taken by the team that killed it and it despawns after 20s if not picked up by then. will replace your trinket for 4 minutes. You can then use it to summon the , who now fights for your team and pushes the nearest lane. It is a strong sieging tool, but it is still vulnerable at its eye on the back, while being less tanky than at first.
The can respawn once before takes its place.

Baron Nashor

is the strongest and most valuable neutral monster in the game. Due to how tanky it is, you'll need multiple teammates to even stand a chance against it. At least one frontliner and an ADC should help you with taking it. Upon killing this monster, your living team members get the buff. This buff grants bonus AD and AP, while also empowering nearby minions. Ideal for when your team is ahead and is able to contest without issues, but you can't really finish the game due to high waveclear on the enemy team.

There are 3 types of plants on the rift. They can all be found in the jungle or in the river. They can be destroyed to grant some (small) bonuses.

Honeyfruit

The first type of plant is the Honeyfruit. These plants spawn at the river and can be destroyed to spawn some fruit on the ground. These fruits can be picked up to restore some HP and mana. Note that these fruits also slow you while consuming them, so taking them while escaping can be risky.

Scryer's Bloom

Next comes Scryer's Bloom. These blue plants can be found at the edge of the jungle, near the river. Destroying them reveals a wide area in a cone. This can be used to reveal wards or to get a look at objectives when your team doesn't have any wards there.

Blast Cone

The last plant is known as a Blast Cone. They appear deeper into the jungle. Destroying them knocks away all nearby units. It can be used to hop over walls, for example from your own jungle into the or pit. It can also be used in clutch situations when you have to flee.

Jungle Routes

Currently, is easily able to clear 5 camps before Scuttle Crab spawns at 3:15, even without a leash from your laners. Every game is different and you will have to adapt to different situations, but that's part of the jungler's job. But usually, you will be able to follow one of the standard jungle routes.

The general rule is to path towards the side of the map where you want to contest scuttle and/or try to gank. Usually this means towards the side of the map where you'll most likely have lane priority; where mid and/or botlane or toplane has a pushing minion wave, giving them easy access to the river to help you when needed.

You should also keep the enemy jungler in mind. You might want to avoid them if they are strong early game duelists (, , ) or when they tend to cheese you with early invades (, , , ). Then it's wise to path towards the opposite direction of them. Of course you cannot always say for certain what their jungle route will look like or where they started, but usually you'll have at least some clues (which I will cover later). For example a blue side will most likely start botside at his to then path towards topside. So what you'll do is start topside at your own red and path towards botside. won't be able to invade you while you get at least one Scuttle Crab for free.

The opposite logic can also be applied. If you happen to be matched against a jungler with poor early game (, , ), you should use the Scuttle Crabs as an opportunity to fight the enemy jungler (as long as you got lane priority to allow aggressive plays).

When you really are uncertain on where to start, just start botside. You'll get a leash from 2 people instead of 1, so your clear should be faster and healthier.

Blue Side

Towards Topside: -> -> -> -> ->

Towards Botside: -> -> -> -> ->

Red Side

Towards Topside: -> -> -> -> ->

Towards Botside: -> -> -> -> ->

With these clears, you'll be level 3 after clearing your third camp and level 4 after getting a Scuttle Crab and thus completing the first clear. Then you have a few options to do next: you can look for a gank midlane or the adjacent sidelane. You can also invade the enemy jungle as well, if there are no good opportunities available you can simply go clear your last jungle camp and base.

Ganking

What is a Gank?

For those who are new to the game or to MOBAs in general, a gank is when one or more people enter a lane to create a number advantage. Usually this is the jungler, who will come to lanes to create 2v1 or 3v2 situations, which often results in kills or other advantages. Taking turret plates or even the whole turret can mean the gank was successful too. Getting the enemies to waste their is an advantage as well. In general, a gank is successful whenever your team gains a gold advantage or when the enemy team wastes more resources (summoner spells, ultimate abilities, access to gold/experience).

Target Selection

In theory you can simply walk into any lane and gank them. In fact, you should definitely pay some thoughts on who you'll be ganking. First of all, you should be identifying both teams and look at a few things:

1. Which enemies are easy targets? (Which are immobile, have a weak early game such as , , .)

2. Which teammates can set easy ganks up? ( already offers lots of damage, so ideally you'll have laners that can set up ganks with their CC.)

3. Which teammates would benefit the most from getting a lead? (Ganking botlane and getting a ADC ahead will ensure a strong hypercarry for the mid-lategame, while helping a toplane tank like won't win you games.)

4. Which enemy champions can be made completely irrelevant when set behind? (Early game champions that rely on snowballing an early lead can be shut down really hard if you put them behind early. In general such champions, and most assassin for example, don't have great scaling, so camping them early will basically remove them from the game.)

5. Which enemies have summoner spells/key abilities on cooldown? ( is the most obvious one. Some ultimates are also super important for a champions safety, such as , or . When these spells are on cooldown, they can be punished quite easily.)

6. How well are they doing? (In lower elos it's a common mistake to focus enemies that are fed. In fact, ganking fed enemies is outright dangerous. For example if you gank the enemy toplaner that is 3 levels and 60 cs up above the ally toplaner, than there's a high chance he will be able to 1v2 you and make things worse. Of course you can possibly turn the tide if the enemy is 1 or 2 kills up, but don't gank lanes that are losing super hard. Focus on lanes you can snowball off.)

Keeping this information in mind, you should set your priorities. This doesn't mean that you can't gank 'harder' lanes though, if there's a good opportunity then go for it. The general rule is to go for low risk, high reward ganks.

How to Gank?

When approaching a lane, ready to gank, you should a few more things in mind.

1. What is state of the minion wave? Minions should never be underestimated. Both damage and value wise. Especially early game, minions can deal a hefty amount of damage if you're not careful. So if your laner is being pushed under your turret with almost 2 full minion waves, a gank would be a lot riskier than if the minion waves were more or less equal. At the same time, if your laner comes to assist you while a wave is dying to turret, the gold/experience benefit you'd get would be very poor or even worse than the resources he would have gotten from the wave.

2. Are there any wards? Most of the potential pressure you create disappears when the enemy happens to have vision of you. Something that can be easily avoided. If you pay enough attention to the map and to your lanes specifically, you can easily see enemies moving towards bushes and often disappear into the fog of war for a moment before returning. The odds are high they have just warded the river, protecting themselves from you. If you know there is a ward, or when you try to gank but the enemy backs off immediately, use or a and clear the enemy ward. Sometimes it's a good idea to stay for a while, as the enemy might try to place a ward immediately after, allowing you to catch them out of position.
Note that when enemies are heavily overextending, seeing you coming probably won't even save them.

3. Are they overextending?

To keep it simple, you could divide a lane into roughly 3 parts. (Image portrays Blue side POV.) If the enemy is in the green zone, closer to your team's side, then they are overextending. You have easy access to them and a gank has a high chance to be succesful. If they are in the yellow zone, they are more or less in the middle of the lane. The odds of a successful gank can vary greatly, often depending on other factors such as you laner having CC to setup, or the enemy having mobility to escape. Finally, an enemy in the red zone would be really difficult to punish. They are close to the safety of their own turret, so trying to gank them is just wasting time in most cases.

4. Do they have mobility/CC? Finally, some champions are just innately harder to gank than others. A constantly blinking , a speedy or a dashing / are way harder to catch than an immobile champion such as , or . At the same time, champions that can peel with CC can be hard to gank as well. 's and , 's and or 's and can all make it almost impossible to close the gap. Keep this in mind and pay attention to cooldowns.

5. Where is the enemy jungler?/Are there Global abilities in the game? You should always be aware of the possible arrival of the enemy jungler. Are you certain they are on the other side of the map? If they are close, then you have to be certain you can make the play work fast enough before they get the time to countergank. This or you and your team need to have the stronger 2v2/3v3. Some junglers excel in counterganking. Don't let them bait you, especially because is almost exclusively usable as an offensive dash.

Same thing for global ultimates from any champion. It's an extra factor that you will have to account for every once in a while. Don't overcommit when the enemy team got protective global spells like 's , 's or 's . If they got or other global mobility like 's , 's destiny or 's , then you should be careful of those too. Champions with such roaming abilities are usually laners, so you should be watching them even more carefully. If those enemies push their lanes as fast as possible, they are almost guaranteed to roam. If they go missing they are certainly up to no good.

As , you got great (conditional) mobility to close the gap. Even though the temptation might be huge to just jump on the enemy, it's usually wiser to hold onto your for as long as possible. 's mark lasts for 3s, so you can go ahead and try to land it when the enemy is close, but don't immediately cast . If the enemy uses mobility/ in the following 2-3s, then you got the gapcloser and a free reset while the enemy wasted their cooldowns. The same applies to . Since it's a pull, it can be used to catch someone. If you can (the enemy isn't killing your laner in the meantime), hold onto it for as long as possible. If the enemy jungler happens to countergank, will have more value.

Gank Types

1. Flanking
This is the most common and easiest ganking type. You'll usually just walk through the river into the lane when the enemy is overextending. Avoid any wards if possible. You can also nearby Blast Cones to get some surprise ganks off.

2. Lane Ganking

Normally, when your laners push the lane, you cannot flank the enemy unless they gravely misplay. This does open up new ganking opportunities though. When the lane is pushed enough, you can walk into the closest bushes in the lane from behind, without being seen. Usually at least. If you try this, always bring and/or s. Through this simple trick you can get close to the enemy laner anyway. When the wave bounces back a little, you can easily jump on the enemy. Your laner can even engage in what seems like an ordinary trade, which gives you an immense advantage of the surprise. Obviously, you can only gank top or botlane through this way. In low elo, many people tend to not know about this or forget about it and don't respect the possibility of someone lane ganking. 's long range is ideal for this type of gank. Make use of it!

3. Tower Diving

A tower dive is the most risky gank. Only go for it when the enemy is low and doesn't have any means to escape, CC you for a long time or simply evade you long enough. (Take care of 's , chain CC from champions like or champions that become stronger on low HP like .) Turrets should not be underestimated. Ideally, you and your laner both tank some of the turret shots before getting out of its range. For these ganks to work you really need to be aware of the enemy jungler's position. 2 low people weakened by the turret, having just blown most of their cooldowns, form an easy snack for an alert enemy jungler.

After a Gank

After a succesful gank you should always look to push the minion wave. While doing so, you should be taxing a few minions as well. More about this and more wave management in the next chapter.
After ganking and helping your ally with the wave, you should look towards available objectives. Early game turrets usually take priority, if you happen to have the this should be easy. If the turret is still too strong, then you should look for or instead. If neither of those are available or it's too risky to contest them, then try to get some turret plates.

Sometimes, an enemy is greedy/tilted after getting killed by a gank and tries to back to lane immediately. (This usually happens toplane because it's a longer lane.) If you're still around and healthy, try to gank again. People will be reckless when they have just been set behind, even though they probably just lost their (or still don't have it up yet). If the second gank is succesful as well, the enemy will be insanely tilted AND they will lose even more gold and experience worth of minion waves.

Wave Management

Pushing a Lane

Like mentioned before, after a succesful gank you'll need to push the minion wave as fast as possible. When the wave is pushed into the enemy turret, the enemy laner(s) will lose a significant amount of gold and experience. At the same time it gives the allied laner(s) time to recall, translate the gained gold advantage into items, regain HP and mana and stock up on wards/potions. All while they don't risk losing much CS themselves because the wave has been pushed.

Taxing

After pulling off a succesful gank, you should take a few minions from your laner. Laners might not like this, but it's a necessary thing. You spend time helping them while you could have farmed your jungle instead. To make up some of the potentially lost resource you should tax. How much you should tax depends on the situation though. If you got the kill from the gank, you should only tax a few caster minions. If your ally got the kill, you can take a few melee minions as well. Never take the cannon minion. Even though it would be deserved, people can seriously tilt of such a thing. It's not worth taking it just to have your laner tilt, flame and run it down. Because let's be honest, it's League of Legends.

Holding a Lane

When your laner has died or has been poked out of lane and has to recall, then you should be happy to hold the lane. If the minion wave is crashing into the allied turret that is. The minions would go to waste anyway. If the enemy laner has backed off as well, then you can to pull the wave before it crashes into the turret, especially when your laner scales well (ADCs, , ). Otherwise it's not really worth getting harassed and poked for, so you should just be content last-hitting under turret. If the laner is a tank or really behind, you can definitely just take the CS as well.

Warding

Wards win games. Knowledge and vision is even more powerful than gold or levels if you make correct use of those information. As a jungler you are in a great position to contribute to vision control of the map. You'll usually start the game with , since wards have high cooldown while not lasting for long. At your first or second back junglers usually swap to . As the game goes on, denying vision becomes more important as there will be more wards present (supports getting their warding item). And junglers specifically need the tools to remove vision in order to gank lanes or to safely solo objectives. You should also aim to always carry at least 1 . Junglers often buy one every single time they base. Yes it costs 75 gold for each, but remember: wards win games.

The following maps portray common warding spots for different occasions, allowing you to place more useful wards as well as find more enemy wards to clear. Softer, transparent dots indicate warding the slightly rarer spots, or spots that are only useful in some situations. Please note that no warding spots are set in stone. There should always be a reason for placing a ward or sweeping a certain spot.

Protecting Lanes

Laners should be placing defensive wards to protect themselves from ganks. In reality some do not sadly. Or sometimes they will try to ward, but the vision gets cleared by the enemy laner or jungler. So if you sou your laner pushing without vision and you happen to be nearby, drop a ward. Of course, if your laner is just a fool that happens to be 0/2 in less than 5 minutes, don't waste your wards on them.

Jungle Control

You should often be warding the enemy jungle to keep track of the enemy jungler (see the Tracking chapter). You should be warding your own jungle instead if the enemy jungler repeatedly invades. So whenever you know they are in your jungle, you can invade the enemy jungle on the other side for free, with way less risk. Or even better, if your laners are alert, you can collaps on the enemy jungler and kill them.

River/Objective Control

Due to , and (and even Scuttle Crab to some extent) being really important, vision control of the river has a high priority. Don't start objectives when there are potentially enemy wards around. Always use to sweep the pits or place a . You don't want to get objectives stolen due to the enemy having vision while you're taking the objective. Only when you have ACED the enemy team then vision doesn't matter anymore for objectives. And even then you should be careful for enemies with respawning!

Tracking

Jungle tracking is one of the most important skills you'll need to become a successful jungler. Being aware of where the enemy jungler is and when allows you to make better calls. Through good tracking you'll be able to predict enemy movement, ganks and objectives. With such information, you can remove their pressure and effectively make the enemy jungler useless. It all starts with often looking at the mini-map and the scoreboard. It should become a habit to look at those every few seconds while clearing or walking around the map. It will eventually become a habit, a second (jungle) nature.

First clear & Early game

You start tracking the enemy jungler from the very start of the game, starting with the first clear. No jungle routes are set in stone, but from some champions certain routes are more likely than others.

Strong early game champions (like , , , ) that want to gank at level 2 or 3 will often start at their . Their route will often look like this: -> -> . They will show up really early on trying to gank or contesting Scuttle Crab.

Farming junglers with weaker early but strong late game will fully clear their jungle most of the time. Farming junglers include , , , , , ... Most of them (but not all) will rather avoid you early and won't fight you for Scuttle Crab.

Then there are some champions that love to invade early. Most notable examples are , , and . Be careful when pathing from towards . They like to steal your red and/or kill you. Protective wards around your jungle are recommended.

Finally there are some flexible junglers that can heavily mix up their routes from game to game. , , , and come to mind. You will have to pay extra attention to other things to predict their route and gameplan.

Sometimes junglers attempt a gank very early, or they have to hold a lane because their laner got solo killed level 2 (*sigh*). Then you should always be looking at their character model. Particles will indicate if they currently have or . Through this you can derive some information about their first clear, more specifically at which buff they started. If you left-click them, you can even see a small icon that roughly indicates the buff's remaining duration.

Combine this with the fact that every jungle camp counts for 4 CS, and you can easily get a lot of information for simply paying attention to the map and the scoreboard. For example: you see passing midlane while he's level 3, has 16 CS and has a red buff. It's all but confirmed that he cleared his , camp and camp.

Deep Wards

As the game goes on, jungle movement becomes more unpredictable in comparison to the early game with the first clear. One of the best ways to keep track of the enemy jungler is of course through warding. Wards deep into the enemy jungle specifically. You can go put a deep ward whenever the enemy jungler shows up on the other side of the map. When you don't know for certain where they are, you should only place deep wards whenever your nearby laners have priority (they are pushing and can come to assist you faster than the enemy can). And even then you shouldn't try it when you are too behind or just whenever the enemy jungler has high kill pressure against you. You can see the most common spots for deep wards above.

Cyclical Behavior

Jungling is often cyclical in nature. For example, you clear your jungle, move to the other side of the map, clear more camps, gank a lane and get the adjacent objective ( or ) before backing and repeating. Good junglers often have clear priorities and will try to play around these conditions repeatedly. A or will often priorities and/or . Whenever they spawn you can expect them to play around that side of the map anytime soon. Ganking junglers such as or will usually play around lanes that are already winning in order to get fed or else they will fall off hard late game. Expect them to gank your losing lanes and play around those sides very often.

It all comes together to reading the enemy. Some players are easier to read than others, but you should always be wondering: What would I do next if I were them? Knowledge of the enemy win conditions can make this very easy. Unfortunately there is no easy answer on how to read and predict the enemy, but you'll become better at it as you play jungle and as you play different champions. Knowledge comes through experience (and through reading the matchup chapter of this guide!)

Objectives

Early Objectives

You should always be looking to translate ganks into objectives. The priority should be the first turret > or > turret platings.

is solid at taking objectives with her high attack speed and on-hit damage from . However, trying to take turrets early can be risky as it'll leave you overextended. Additionally, turret plating makes the turrets tankier as well. You can try to take the first turret if you and your laner(s) can take it fast and when there are at maximum 2 turret platings left. You can take turrets with more health left if you already captured the . It can easily take over 2 plates with only its dash. After you take a turret plating, the turret will take reduced damage for some time, so hold onto for as long as possible, since this doesn't apply on Herald.

Pulling a successful gank off mid or botlane usually means a free , unless they got and/or the other adjacent enemy lane can contest it. You can even solo or after you get a few items and levels - I recommend to be at least level 6 - and if your adjacent laners have priority. You can also sneak such an objective if the enemy jungler shows up at the other side of the map, considering you can verify there are no wards to spot you.

If you see or know for certain the enemy team is taking an objective, you can either try to contest if your team can reach them fast enough and is ahead, or let them have it when you are too behind to contest or when they have enough DPS to get it fast. What's often the safer option is to trade objectives. Let's say you are toplane. The enemy jungler ganks botlane, gets a kill out of it and returns into the river. Odds are very likely that they are getting a now. The worst thing would be to immediately run towards botside in hopes of contesting it. 1. They might already finish it before you're able to arrive and 2. your botlane now has to walk back all the way from base. So the correct play would be to get the instead. With it you can potentially make up for the lost gold or even gain a netto lead if you get a few turret plates (or a whole turret) while the enemy jungler can't help his toplaner because they're botside.

Late Objectives

As the game goes on new objectives will present itself. The usual priority is (except for the enemy Nexus obviously) > > Soul > Inhibitor.

At this point both teams should be grouping to contest those objectives together. As the jungler, you should play around your team instead of playing as a lone wolf now. You got , so having you available at objectives will often make or break the fight. Whenever you start and objective and the enemy team has at least a small chance of contesting, then you should ALWAYS have up. If it's on cooldown, please ping it so your team doesn't engage it only for it to get stolen by the enemy jungler.

When to start an objective?

(This is mainly applicable on and .)

1. The enemy jungler shows up at the other side of the map. You should be able to safely start the objective, as long as your team has enough DPS to kill it fast enough. You don't want to give the enemy jungler the chance to come back. Should be easy to secure considering your , unless one of their laners happens to be or with a strong securing tool as well in the form of and .

2. Multiple members of their team are on the other side of the map. Once again, you should be able to take it fast. It's not recommended to start the objective when those enemies have up. (Or global ultimate such as or .) If the enemy jungler is near (or missing), then you should take them into consideration as well. A , or can always access and steal an objective through their mobility if you're not careful. Even though the enemy team has a number disadvantage and cannot directly contest. If the enemy jungler is among the people at the other side of the map, then it should be a free objective in most cases.

3. You got a splitpusher with Teleport. A splitpushing toplaner can be a blessing, but also a curse (especially in uncoordinated environments). If there's an important objective spawning, then the splitpusher should pressure the opposite side of the map. Your opponents then have to decide on how to respond to this splitpush. At best for them they can send 1 person with strong waveclear to nullify the splitpush. However, if your splitpusher has up and the enemy who counters the push doesn't, then you still have a time window to engage the objective while it's a 5v4.

When you're blessed with a fed splitpusher, then the enemy might have to send multiple people in order to stop them. An even bigger advantage!

4. You aced or nearly aced the enemy team. If your allies are at least a little healthy and the enemy cooldown timers aren't too short, then your team should always translate the kills into (almost) uncontested objectives.

5. There are multiple super minions inside their base, but they got weak waveclear. This is basically a drafting difference: not much you can do when your team simply lacks the waveclear. They will never be able to contest it 5v5 unless they risk losing their nexus in the process.

Baiting & Turning

Sometimes you have games where you are ahead, but it's hard to pull the trigger on objectives. Maybe they have a high chance of stealing it, or maybe they have great waveclear and pushing power so it's too risky to leave your turrets unguarded for too long.

You can bait them by clearing their vision around the objective. Either they let a free objective slip, or they'll come in an attempt to contest. When your team guards their likely entrance paths, then you might be able to get some picks onto them and force a fight.

Sometimes it's hard to bait them due to them having too much vision , 's or even 's can always spot out your bait. In those cases, you might have to actually start the objective, forcing them to come or give it for free. If they show up, immediately turn away from the objective and engage a fight.

Afterwards, if you did manage to win the fight (considering your team was ahead), then you can safely get the objective or even just end the game if the circumstances are right.

Game Plan

You should be planning the (early) game as soon as you're in the loading screen. This requires a combination of all knowledge I've been trying to teach in the previous chapters. You'll be deciding your initial jungle clear, which lanes to gank and identifying your win conditions. Of course games can be unpredictable and turn out completely different than what you expected. Adapting is one of the most important aspects of jungling, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a plan to start with.

I'll now give you a scenario and explain the thought process behind the game plan.

Blue Side

Red Side

Win Conditions

Blue Team: , and can all take on the role of carry. will want to snowball and roam, but due to being a safe laner with , solo-kills can be hard to achieve if the knows what he's doing. also roam often, decreasing 's kill pressure. 's roaming potential is also limited by a bit due to global vision through 's . While he can most definitely carry, it will be kinda hard to get him fully online. on the other hand has even more potential due to his strong support pairing ( is arguably ' best support) and a decent matchup botlane ( and do not really have strong all-in power, at least not pre-6). also has an incredible late game and will bring insane firepower to the table. Considering you can get him through a weak early game that is. is a reliable tank, a safe laner with good scaling, but won't really hard carry a game.

Red Team: and are the main ones to watch. will probably try to play around those 2. The 2v2 with should be strong while being able to snowball the will prove really useful as the game goes on. is decent at all stages of the game. He can easily bully a tank like early game while still scaling decently into a solid sidelaner with splitpush potential as well as having good teamfighting. will want to farm and isn't able to do that much early, so he'll play super safe. He might get some assist from the though, since they love to roam. bot is as a rock for the team, being a safe utility-ADC with great setup and vision control, but she doesn't pack as much punch as other ADCs. She also has a weaker early game and will easily run out of mana.

Early Game

As there might be some early ganking opportunities midlane due to 's weak early game. Toplane is gankable, but + have a weaker 2v2 at the beginning of the game than + . The botlane 2v2 is more or less even, but has great gank setup. Even can initiate ganks fairly well through his + combo.

outpushes early since the latter is really mana-reliant and is not. and have slightly better waveclear than and . The only wave that will certainly have priority early is midlane, since got next to no waveclear. It will be hard to contest Scuttle Crab without priority, especially against a who beats you in the 1v1. However, will most likely path towards topside, where he has a strong 2v2 combo and priority to contest Scuttle Crab. He'll probably try to play around top or mid (because pushing leaves him vulnerable).

This means you should start topside and path towards bot, where you'll have priority from mid to get Scuttle Crab while is probably at the other side of the map. Then you can try to gank botlane, using the good gank setup while you bring damage.

Mid-Late Game

If the early game plan works, you should have control of the botside river and the . Having a winning botlane also means that 's agency to roam has also decreased.

The enemy team has strong sidelaning with and to some extent even . will most likely try to snowball this advantage by prioritizing the . Ward those areas of the map, and a few defensive wards to protect would be even better. While is playing around topside, you should invade his botside jungle, make sure can safely scale and take . A fed with Infernal Soul or Ocean Soul can be an absolute nightmare to play against.

If you do manage to get a against the odds, you should use it midlane if you can. When has to play further back, has more breathing room to roam and help toplane.

Teamfighting in General

is a formidable teamfighter due to her high AoE damage through , and most notably . This doesn't mean you shouldn't approach teamfights with care though. Choosing the wrong targets and mindlessly going in will only end up in getting you killed and losing the fight. Here are some things to keep in mind while teamfighting as .

1. Focus their strongest teamfighter. Usually this is a fed ADC or fed mage, but it can also happen to be a bruiser. A fed and can sweep your team if you simply play front to back without pressuring them. But if the enemy has 20 kills then you should target them instead of the 1/5 marksman.

2. Let tanks/bruisers be the main engage. can be the one engaging teamfights, but don't forget she's still a rather squishy champion (at least with most builds). You wouldn't be the first one to dive in the middle of the enemy team only to die before getting an ult off. Let others do the engaging, have patience and let distracted enemies waste valuable cooldowns before you unleash hell upon them.

3. Make use of your summoner spells and items. There's a reason why 's core build contains and . They're meant for teamfighting, so don't sit on them until it's too late. If your team has no proper engage and you have to do it yourself, don't hesitate to burn and . has a telegraphed engage, so using these will catch many by surprise. is then ideal to buy time while your team follows and cleans up the fight.

4. Pick the locations of your fights. is amazing in close spaces. The Baron or Dragon pit are such spots on the map, but the jungle is full of such choke points as well. Since many fights revolve around objectives in the river you should be getting quite a lot of good opportunities. The worst thing that your team can do is to constantly group mid as 5 for no reason.

Teamfighting when Ahead

If you are fed, you can easily steamroll a fight by getting big ultimates off. With the right items ( for example) you can even delete bruisers and tanks if you hit 3-4 targets with . You deal more damage the more you hit at once, so going for the grouped enemies instead of the lone can easily take out the 4 of them when ahead. This is often better than wasting on one . They aren't really gonna be able to do anything on their own anyway. Unless they are insanely fed, then you should definitely go for the carry instead.

Teamfighting when Behind

You never want to be in this kind of position, but it'll happen sooner or later. At this point won't deal that much damage while getting blown up even faster. It's better to play in function of your teammates then. also offers utility through its pull, so you can peel for teammates that are doing better by pulling divers away from them. It's also really important to note how it can be used to interrupt channels. 's and 's for example can all be undone with that one button.

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