The ONLY Jungle Macro Guide You’ll EVER NEED – League of Legends Season 9


hello summoners and welcome to the only jungle macro guide that you will ever need we know you guys have been requesting it so here it is it’s pretty obvious what we’re gonna talk about today in this video but specifically we’re gonna talk about some basic strategies and macro play concepts that you need to know being a jungler like always feel free to leave feedback or let us know what you liked in the comments down below and also let us know which role you want to see next if you like this kind of content make sure that you check out our channel for other videos just like this one but before we get started and make sure that you go to pro guides com if you want to see huge improvements to your rank right now with the pro pass you get exclusive pro courses and propane uu feature called it insta pro which provides unlimited 24/7 on-demand coaching from the best of the best over 100,000 gamers have used insta Pro today and ranked up significantly so don’t miss out on this opportunity rank up now using the link below with that said let’s explore the jungle like we’ve said in our other videos remember that all this information is subjective our hope is that your main takeaway from this video is an improved mindset and a better understanding of macro concepts from there figure out what works and what doesn’t work for you while we’re going over general guidelines they’re just that guidelines not everything is going to be correct 100% of the time and you need to be able to use your best judgment in every situation jungling is easily the most complex roll in the game and there’s so much information that we need to cover through everything just be patient it’s a lot to learn and you need to put in a lot of work in our other macro guides we’ve always mentioned that players need to not focus on just their own matchup but also consider the jungle matchup well guess what you have to do triple the work as a jungler you need to consider every lanes matchup so engagement during champion select is the most important for junglers look at every matchup and assess the following you need to be able to understand which lanes have priority which lanes can snowball the easiest your team’s win condition and if you can fight your opponent if so when or how based on all of this information you should have a general idea of which lanes that you want to focus your pressure towards remember to be adaptable things can always change as the game progresses the most important resources for a jungler are tempo and information tempo is a pretty broad term generally referring to how quickly you can initiate a play a tempo advantage means that you’re able to start a play faster while being behind on tempo means that you are likely to react to something instead this resource comes directly from efficiency and your recall timers in the early game junglers are the biggest playmakers on both teams by playing optimally you can save time and be the first one to push for vision gank or start an objective specifically the information that you want to know is the enemy junglers location or at least knowing where the enemy jungler is not knowing where the enemy jungler is will help you make vital decisions throughout the entire game based on your matchup you need to decide whether or not you want to proactively avoid your opponent or play for efficiency as a jungler you need to think about your pathing in two ways one dimensionally and two dimensionally the simple part is the one dimensional thinking your champion and what’s efficient for them if you’re playing Kane or Master Yi you know that a full clear and a hard farming early game is what’s best for your champ you don’t have very strong gank potential early on but if you happen to see an over extending enemy on the side of the map that you end on you can definitely capitalize and gank conversely if you’re playing a ganking of jungler such as Xin Zhao or Jarvan you need to consider what your best windows to gank are you want to go for a level 2 gank with your power spike or instead look for a quick level 3 clear into a gank since your strength is in ganking you’ll want to play towards the strengths by farming for the sake of hitting power spikes as fast as you can then immediately spam ganking the next step is to consider it two dimensionally considering your enemy strengths and adjusting to it if the enemy jungler is a strong duelist or counter jungler such as oh dear nunu or Leeson this adds a level of threat to your own specific jungle clear there’s definitely a possibility that your opponent could invade your jungle so you need to make adjustments to your pathing to avoid this you might need to skip a camp to secure a buff or solo a buff and hide which side of the map you started on to make it more difficult for your enemy to invade you against heavy farming junglers you can be the one to proactively invade them and fight them while you’re still stronger to combat junglers who want to gank you can skip some camps and attempt to mirror your opponent’s pathing considering both of these factors you need to decide what’s more likely to be the best play think about things like this how hard do you in your teammates scale as opposed to your opponents who when your team needs resources the most because sometimes it’ll be you how safe is it for you to attempt the play that you want to mate let’s give you a pretty good example we’re playing Xin xao jungle vs. Master Yi jungle in our lanes we have an ASUS top lane lissandra mid and a Caitlyn Morgana bottom Lane since we’re playing a much stronger ganking jungler we want to be proactive and apply pressure somewhere on the map in the case that the enemy top laner is a mobile we allow our Caitlyn and Morgana Lane to be self-sufficient and focus on NASA’s who scales very hard with enough resources he can take over his Lane and we’ll be free to focus pressure on the bot side of the map later on or continue snowballing his lead by pressuring for rift Herald in the case that the enemy jungler were also a gank heavy jungler like V it would be a better play to play towards bot side since Nasus is weak early taking to v2s could lose us the game since will likely just lose instead we should only gank top if we have vision of the enemy jungler or look bottom where our lanes dominance will make any 3v3 winnable by winning through bottom lane we can push for deep vision in the enemy jungle and look to help our top laner by either braking bottom lane turret and then rotating or ganking top when we see the enemy jungler sitting on our deep wards while deciding on our best course of action one thing that will inevitably come up is splitting the map the jungle is split into four quadrants blue team top side blue team bot side red team topside and red team bot side in a standard map the jungle is split between the two teams with the river dividing which quadrants a jungler can farm blue side gets their two quadrants and red side gets there’s a split map refers to the jungle being split by the mid lane rather than by the river in this orientation junglers two quadrants are either the top two quadrants or the bottom two quadrants most games will have a standard map but you need to be ready for games where the map can be split there are two reasons why the map can be split you initiate the split or your opponent does before we talk about how to split the map let’s talk about why you would want to do that you want to split the map because of wind conditions or efficient jungle pathing splitting the map creates immense jungle threat for that side of the map but creates the exact opposite scenario on the other side by doing this whichever side you’re on will be able to farm more easily and also be the lane that you’re able to gank whichever side you leave will inevitably take some losses but if the side that you are playing on scales or snowballs harder this will ultimately be a benefit to you more than it hurts you another thing that it does is it can be more efficient for your jungle clear the most reason you would split the map for jungle pathing is because you went for a level two gank after ganking the adjacent side lane to your first buff your lane should have priority and you’re also already near the river if you wanted to path towards the opposite side of your own jungle this would not only waste a lot of time but you would also take a huge tempo loss and it’s a bit risky this is because while you’re traversing the map your opponent is farming their camps they’ll finish their camps first and then have the opportunity to recall or gank to cut your losses you would split the map and use this positioning to walk into the enemy jungle since the lane you gank should have priority they can push in their Lane and help you invade another topic that comes up from splitting the map is what to do when your opponent initiates the split map when this happens you can either agree to split or stop it when agreeing you allow the enemy jungler to take your camps on the opposite side that you started from and then trade back the enemy camps adjacent to you this creates the split map scenario where one side reaps the benefits while the other suffers for each team stopping the split means that you don’t allow the enemy jungler to split the map and adjust your pathing to quickly reach the quadrant of the jungle that’s actually being invaded the biggest loss in this situation is that you’ll have to adjust your pathing and you’ll likely still lose at least one camp if your opponent splitting the map negatively impacts your biggest win condition such as a scaling hyper carry or a snowballing split pusher stopping the split is still the best option you don’t want your most important teammate to be denied of all resources so you take the loss for them in order to ensure that they can get out of the early game let’s talk about a hot topic which is ganking ganking isn’t something that can be taught in full because it’s simply assessing risk versus reward if you can clear jungle on that side of the map ganking the opposite side is safest since there isn’t anything for your opponent to safely counter jungle you also need to assess how much you can lose off of a gank versus how likely it is to succeed ganking a three oh Darius might be hard but ganking for your Mouser Harmon who has flash can be really easy you may only even need one ability when committing to a gank think about the routes that your champion can take some champions such as Lee sin or garages can hop over walls to avoid common wards in the river bushes by doing so they increase their odds of catching enemies by surprise and therefore have a better chance of securing takedowns what you do after I gank also matters a lot the ultimate goal after any successful gank is to either take the turret or set up a freeze if you can you should always opted to break the first turret following a gank when you can’t manage the wave so that it freezes if the wave is already pushing towards your laners turret and they’re healthy enough to manage the freeze themselves you can immediately leave and do whatever jungle things that you need to do when they’re not healthy enough or the wave is pushing towards the enemy turret you should assist your team and fast push the wave in crashing a wave will set up the next wave to push to the opposite side so ironically fast pushing a wave will eventually create a freeze the reason why setting up freezes to a teammate is so important is that you can repeat a gank ganking lanes that use their summoner spells is much easier to execute and it also allows you to play with your stronger teammates if those enemies want to continue farming they put themselves at risk of feeding you more kills in the case that they respect you in play safe well of course sacrifice a ton of farm when one side of your map is winning or has priority you should apply pressure on that sides neutral objective with a winning bottom lane they should be able to push in their wave and pressure their lane opponents under the turret which also allows you to start a free dragon a winning top side does the same thing with rift herald in either case you can also look to see if you can gank or dive those lanes first before you start the objective if the opportunity is there pick up some free kills first and then take the neutral objective with a big numbers advantage when all of your lanes are losing one thing you can do is play reactively if the enemy team starts rift or dragon you can sneak to the other side of the map if you do have vision control when you don’t you can instead make a play on the opposite side of the map counter jungle or gank the lane away from the objective that the enemy jungler is taking in cases where you can choose one of the other you should prioritize rift herald / dragon in the early game rift Herald creates a big tempo advantage and a gold advantage which will allow you to snowball games dragon buffs are better for later stages of the game but act as more of an extra reward for having a winning bottom Lane the mid game starts roughly around the time the turret plating falls off around 14 to 15 minutes based on how we’re doing this is when we really want to start impacting the map we need to reassess our goals here plating has fallen so any successful play will result in a turret your main goal as a jungler during the transition period into the mid game is help somebody break their turret and also take rift Herald or dragon off the map take a look at which lanes have the best setup and then just play off of them if your team is instead much better off scaling and farming you should prioritize vision control and instead react to any plays that your enemy makes use any opportunities where your teammates can take Lane priority to deep ward and locate the enemy jungler do your best to mirror their passing and stop any plays that they try to make the first thing that we want to talk about for the mid in late-game is this never be a lone bottom when Baron is alive the only times that you should go bottom while Baron is alive is to take dragon or gank a split pusher when your team needs to alleviate the pressure in either of these cases you still need to ensure that you have a good vision control of Baron before going for these plays Baron is the most important objective in the game and it allows you to pressure every Lane in aids in taking turrets teams that take Baron buff will have significantly higher win rates than teams that don’t the greatest mistake you can make as a jungler is randomly showing bot side in forfeiting a baron no matter what champion you’re playing there are two universal rules every jungler has vision control and being in the right part of the map the main focus of the mid to late game is to take objectives Lane allocation determines how you execute these roles there are three allocations for the later parts of the game 1:31 group is for and group as five in a one three one two players on your team are strong split pushers play four inhibitor pressure by pushing when it’s safe and eventually taking the turrets during 131a junglers role is to help their support take a vision control and also to position themselves based on the situation help your carry take a Lane priority and then walk into the jungle with your support although you’re part of the group of three you can take vision control on one side and then hover one of your laners you can then commit to any flank opportunities if you find them and if the opportunities arise you’ll get your group of three and enable one of your split pushers to take the turret grouping as four is when one of your teammates can side lane if you need to you’ll set up a slow push in one side Lane then group with your team after that your goal is to support your split pusher by fighting for priority as a group of four and then taking vision for them the hardest part here is avoiding engages by the enemy team you’ll need to position safely continue to clear waves and then attempt to disengage any attempts by your opponent just like in 131 continue to help your support tank vision with Lane priority grouping is four means that you’re supporting your split pusher do whatever you can to help them get the inhibitor that they’re going for again you can hover between your group of four and your side laner to look for any opportunities to collapse grouping is five is the choice when your team is unable to match a split pusher or simply can’t sleep push that effectively you’re looking to take any favorable teamfights engages pics or dives while grouping with your team your team needs to pull the trigger in these situations unless the enemy team is also grouped as five grouping this five also means that you’ll be forcing plays and trying to create number advantages afterwards you assess which objective is the safest and best to take no matter what the situation is know that your goal is either inhibitors Baron or dragon no matter which Lane allocation you decide to go with play for those objectives that is a lot of information today so let’s quickly recap during champion select you need to assess every Lane matchup figure out a game plan and decide on how you want to play for it the early game is the hardest part you need to choose an optimal path and adjust based on things that occur during the game proactively split the map when it favors you and attempt to stop it from being split when you need to remember the importance of repeat ganks and following successful ones you should really try to capitalize on summoner spell cooldowns as an effective and also safe play once the mid and late game come around focused heavily on turrets and neutral objectives play towards your team strengths and figure out how to secure them once Lane allocations come around help your support take vision control and make sure to hover any side laners if you see a potential gank or dive opportunity that’s gonna conclude our jungle macro guide thanks for watching and again you can check out our youtube channel or pro guides comm for more content like this one on pro guides calm we’ve partnered with pro players to create courses designed to help you take your game to the next level so don’t miss out on that opportunity good luck on the rift and we’ll see you all next time [Music]

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  1. it s hard to chose a jg champion based on the opponents and i think is risky 2 cuz if you go to counter bot and your top is losing big time you might not be able to help ur top… when i go jg i am 90% going kayn cuz his transformation can help me adjut to deal with the enemy carry

  2. What exactly should I do in the case of early game objectives? Lets say Dragon is taken and rift didn't spawn, all camps are taken and all my lanes are pushed in + I cant duel the enemy jungler cause I'm Ivern or master Yi?

  3. Hi guys! I love your new macro guide videos but please make a support macro guide soon! Looking forward to it thanks!

  4. its almost as if they aren't releasing a support macro guide on purpose , I've seen it literally from the first video , so many people asking for it but atleast the release of this video means they'll do support next

  5. One Support guide please. With extra late game macro, teamfighting, and important overall tips for every type of support (hard engage, enchanter, mage) on the side. 👍

  6. come to EUNE and you will see how I make Draven win lane and get 20 kills and when the whole team decides to push he runs away and takes jg camps despite having full build. Welcome to Silver 2 EUNE where 80% of the players in my team have brains like this

  7. I often play Volibear in jungle. The trickiest thing for me is either do I continue farming, or do I have to stop mid farm in order to gank? Also, why do I have to think about every lane matchup? I can't even think that quick.

  8. I like how it explains jungle largelly but i feel like it's overcomplicated, i main jungle and from what i know mostly low elo players have something to learn from this and honestly all you have to do is learn to balance farming and ganking and the rest they explain you will do subcounciously.
    Anyway very good work cand wait for next one!

  9. plz make a video about what champ you should play in every situation i mean in champion select. there is some games where ur team pickd 4 ad champs and u are last pick adc, what to do ? pick a 5th ad champion (typical adc) or just pick mage bottom. Its better to pick ur main and don't care about teamcomps or its better to pick a galio mid if ur team don't pick any tank (currently p2)

  10. Mid Lane Macro:
    Top Lane Macro:
    ADC Macro:

  11. Jungle guide.
    Step 1: camp top
    Step 2: hide in a bush, the shared xp won't leave you behind
    Step 3: keep camping top
    Step 4: profit

  12. Ok, let me tell you something….Noob players don't benefit from anecdotal advice. This "guide" provided no concrete timings, no optimal jungle paths to take as x/y/z junglers, no suggestions on exact timings to invade enemy blue/red at the start, no timings on when laners expect to be ganked, etc… This video is 100% anecdotal advice. If you want to be successful making "guides," you need to provide actual concrete points such as "lvl 2 ganks will almost always occur at xx:xx time." Or, "these exact spots are where you should place early wards in the enemy jungle. And here are the exact locations you should place wards in your own jungle." Not a single bit of advice in this video will ever improve anyone's actual gameplay.

  13. Great video! This is one of the most cohesive tutorials that touches on things I try to explain nearly every day! I will definitely share this and the others I see with my friends.

  14. imagine if a laner below dia would freeze a lane after a gank xD people playing this game are just fcking stupid

  15. How many times have i told my bot lanes " I cant always take dragon if you're losing lane" (As an Evelyn) AND YET! Its still my fault!? BUT IG PROGUIDES HAS TO SAY IT RIGHT!?!

  16. This is not a jungling guide this is a guide about the overall game. You can literally take 75% of everything said in the video copy and paste to any other role and make it the the only support guide you will ever need.

  17. Watching these vids are cool but when you realize that jungle is legit one of worst and toxic roles in the game makes me salty I just want season 6 jungle again instead you legit have to spam gank top or bot in order to win a game

  18. Biggest macro decision before gold. Can't believe you wouldn't bring it up, but makes sense.

    Your team will rage at you pre 7 minutes for not ganking. That will lead into them feeding, and blaming because they usually don't know how to play safe from behind.

    If you're not in platinum yet, pick an early game gank jger.

  19. Just wanna ask, if i've got soraka, vayne bot lane vs a lucian and morgana (that will probably dominate in lane) am i supposed to gank them early, even tho we have no CC?

  20. Hi, I am a learning jungle main in League and I just wanted to know what you guys think of my champ pool.
    For repeat ganking or ganking lang
    For scaling and splitpushing
    For dueling and skirmishing
    Please help thank you

  21. I love your tips help me a lot in rank games, I main top and jungle. Watching this made me realize a lot of things in jungling I didn't really know about thank you so much I'll be sure to practice!

  22. The "only jungle macro guide you'll ever need" and yet not a single word about how important it is to track the enemy jungler's pathing. No discussion on counting CS or tracking jungle camp timers. Nothing. That's one of the most important things good junglers do to make good macro decisions and you guys completely didn't cover it. This is a decent beginner's guide to jungling but it is absolutely NOT the only macro guide you'll ever need. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. You guys also didn't cover extremely important topics like rubber band experience, counter-ganking, gank pathing, warding, vision denial, etc.

  23. The only downside to this is that even though if I play near perfect pathing kiting the idiotic laners don't know what to do but run it down

  24. do a specific pathing guide for certain jungler types. i see so many new players path horrifically and single-handedly lose game

  25. Okay, cool, but what if you, as the jungler, is the split pusher? Give preference to top side of the map whenever baron is alive?

  26. 3:43 Could someone explain to me how Nunu is a strong duelist? I can he is tanky and has good sustain but I don't see how he can 1v1 very well with his low damage..

  27. supports please, we supp. mains nowadays can be pretty….. underrated so can u make a guide like this for supports?

  28. This Guide is good, sure it is, but you wont see 1-3-1 in low elo, even if you ping and write to them, where to go, how to do, what do do, they wont hear / listen to you and throw the game by getting catched in zones where you had 0 Vision. Or they play aram instead of splitting in 1-3-1 to get the Turrets. Sure it will work or it will make jungler in higher elo better, but Gold and under Gold Player act like Zombies ahahaa

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