Should I full clear or gank at level 3?

All right, guys. We are doing another jungle commentary, but this time focused on when you should gank. So, essentially, last video we covered stop ganking, and now we will cover when to actually gank. So, we're still going to do the same rotation of camps this time on the other side. They do have a jungle Zyra, so this is one of the champions that does really well against Rek'Sai.

I don't know what I'm thinking about. He's actually going to be at my even if we clear really well here, he's still going to be at my scuttle faster than me. So, what we're going to do is a not focus on the bot scuttle unless he throws. So, we'll see. This is sitting around a GM master Elo again.

So, I'll throw up the deep ward sometime here. But yeah, we're looking at pretty decent on both teams. Our team has more CC, so if we get ahead, it's going to be really hard for them to come back into it. We're just going to be able to lock them down and CC them down. We also do well better in team fights, so not sure what they really have going for them.

Maybe they have more pick potential with Zyra and Riven, but we'll see. Maybe some more side lane pressure if Riven ends up getting ahead. But yeah, again, Zyra I like this early ward from the team. Zyra has to pick and choose which lane to be at, which lane to gank. And then which lane to play for here.

Zyra has first choice on his move since he finishes his clear faster, so it's up to him what he wants to do. I just need to react to it when I see it happen on the map. So, this is what you do when the jungler is faster clearing or does not skip a camp. Does not do a gank. So, both junglers are even still.

But yeah, this is higher Elo, so it looks like he did choose top. Yeah, he probably finishes clear way earlier. He's probably there right now. So, just ping it out for the team and give off a deep ward, and then we will just take her best take her back. Never mind.

We will gank here. So, right now, I have a window 30 seconds until my spawn. I don't really I can give a little bit of room to gank first, and then we are just going to get his flash. He's very close to dying there. It's like Zyra also did the same play, so we're just going to push it in.

Make sure he has good reset. Try to seek on there. I'm going to go back. He should back here. Push it in for him so he doesn't cover.

And now he can just come back. And then he should have an advantage in lane. Yeah, that is an example of when to do it. Pretty close on the kill, but didn't quite have the damage. Right now, we're going to be looking towards drag, so oh, did I miss that?

No, we're good. Going to be looking towards drag. We see Zyra on the deep ward we gave off earlier. So, what Zyra needs to do here is try to either gank or Oh, wait. I think he's going to be way faster than me here.

Fine. Dragon is spawning in 20 seconds, so we have no fear of Zyra going at it right now. He's going towards bot. I think he's going to continue clearing. Let's see if we can get this.

We have no flash right now. So, in this position, bot lane does not have prio. Their wave is pushing in, and then mid lane his wave is pushing in as well. So, I have prio on the mid lane, but I do not have prio on the bot lane. What I want to do here is actually put a gank through to towards bot, and then make sure they can move first.

So, then here is what we're going to do. So, this is exactly the right move to make. We're just going to try to make him die. You can just take it. That's it.

Works. And then we're going to go towards this. So, now for sure they have prio since we just killed them, so I'm very clear. But yeah, just make sure that your lanes can move first or it's really hard to play if the enemy support. It's good enough to kill the support here.

You don't really have like AD doesn't really want to move all the time. If you see the AD moving early game, it's typically a mix mistake on their end. So, it does work. Zyra is here. But yeah, doing dragon like this as we said earlier, it always needs to be done.

So, either just flip it or do it. Because the moment we step into our top side, the dragon is theirs. So, you'll see frequently dragon being done around this timer. But yeah, so here we know that Zyra went off into the top side camp. We're just going to kind of keep on clearing.

Getting the early dragon is worth more than Zyra's two kills, so dragon is worth like three or four kills, but later on it's worth even more than that. Soul is game deciding, so just want to play for dragon every single game. But yeah. So, this is the only situation where you're need to really focus on ganking. Right now, if I go and kill Riven, I'm going to miss out on three camps, and then I'm also not going to be able to it won't matter.

I won't be able to grab any objective off of it, anything like that. So, going for a Riven kill is not ideal. But yeah, we just want to clear it down. We just want to keep on playing for the win condition, which is dragon. And then also Samira getting ahead.

Staying ahead is really important. I think Victor should probably not have flashed in the level one if he couldn't get the kill, but it's fine. It happens. And then I think Shen dying here also doesn't really matter too much. Riven just needs to not get the super ahead, and then it should be fine.

Shen does have alt on reset here, so we're just going to look for that. We're going to play for that here. And then I'm just going to flash in here, and then with the Shen alt get the kills. We're just going to make him die real quick. I think he dies, too.

It's fine. Little bit high feet. It's okay, though. But yeah, we're just going to make him die. Nautilus was playing for mid.

I think it's fine. Nope. Nope. Nope, it's not. Okay, though.

We're not really worried about that. We're just looking to reset, grab our camps, and try to stay on the map afterwards, so just be really efficient with it. Take immediate base after killing the Ynara. I think I'm just going to walk towards it. I'll check if they're doing it, but if they are already doing it, then it's fine.

Yeah, it's fine. He's already doing it, so in this case, never go into the like void pit unannounced, so we're just going to Oh, he has flash again. That's right. That's right. It's the same timer as mine.

It is all good. So, oh, if he doesn't destroy my tunnel here, I'm just going to take it again, right? Oh, never mind. He had vision here. It's fine.

Anyway, camps are back up, so we're going to stop ganking. That was a good try, though, on to Wei, so going to make him die later for it. And then we don't lose that much time on the camps. We're still going to be able to catch up with smite, so we smite it, make it die faster, set up the next respawn faster, so going to go back and then just continue down. This time around, we do want to make sure that we get the dragon, so also side note, like I left blue up earlier on purpose.

We want to always skip blue or red buff in order to get the gank if it's possible. Cuz blue or red is not part of the initial sequence, so it doesn't really matter to kill them immediately on spawn. Whereas the other common jungle camps are always on sequence, so you do want to kill them as soon as you can. So, in this sequence is good. It gives us the most amount of time.

We see Zyra here, so we're going to just ping him back. We want to reset 1 minute before dragon here, so then we can be maximum up time on the map. So, definitely ping the team back cuz we don't want this right now. We want to get a reset and then play for the drag fight. So, this is also when not to gank, but we'll see.

So, what after we get the reset off, we're going to look for windows to gank, so this is the only time. Like jungle nowadays, 2026, you really don't have any time anymore because the camps spawn so fast that you really have to be giga efficient with it. Here I'm going to just grab some MR cuz they have you know, two AP here. So, they're going to be very crucial in this dragon fight coming up in about 10 seconds. So, let's see what happens.

Right now it's not really too important to look around still, so we're just going to start it out. Got to drag it out. Not I'm going to ping off mid. We just want them to come to us now since if they turtle underneath Nexus, it's going to be really hard to catch them. We don't really Oh, it looks like they're just conceding it.

So, here it's very important to just go back onto my camps after. So, we're going to be able to get it. I think I'm going to be able to catch this. I think I'm going to be un- unable to catch this. So, again, we're this always should happen where you get dragon before your camps respawn.

So, at most he's only going to be able to take one buff, which also destroys his clear. So, oh, wait. Okay, maybe he gets two. I'm not really sure. Maybe he gets two.

I'm going to try to take this. Oh, he has a Furious Smite. Don't worry about the Shen. Don't worry about the Shen. Don't worry about it, guys.

They are stronger here. Okay. Riven is not good here, obviously, because Yeah. We're just going to jump here. Yeah, Riven is way stronger than Shen.

He's 40 CS up. We don't want to fight that. Just playing for the red buff there. It's all good though. Go back for scuttle here.

We left it earlier. But yeah, we'll go collect it and then we're going to go back to camps in a sec. Maybe I can go for this kill real quick though. Camps are down. So, this is the timer to do it.

I'm going to flash on this kid. Very good. Very good kill. Zera does have one more kill participation than us, but it is expected. He gave up two dragons for this.

So, his game is ruined. But we'll see. He's playing it correct though, honestly. Like no complaints here. He is playing correctly.

He is doing the full clears as well and then he's going in trading two camps for the dragon. This is all correct so far. Nobody is really playing too imperfectly or anything like that. No big mistakes have been made. Maybe Yunora, but you can just you know, I normally smash bot.

So, it's fine. We're going to try for another kill onto Quake. I only burned flash earlier. I think he might have flash soon, but I didn't really keep track. We're just going to try for it.

Yeah, I think Quake is just done with the game. I think he's not having fun anymore. We ruined Quake's game. But yeah, that's also when to gank. Camps are down.

Don't have to worry about Zyra. I'm going to just throw out a ward here. It is back. So, yeah, never gank for losing top lane, by the way. That is one thing that you know, when also not to gank, especially if your top laner is pinging you to gank, you know, that's like a like that's a really good tell of when not to gank for the top laner.

If the top laner is pinging you for the gank. So, you know, honestly that if you take away one thing from jungle, that is the rule of thumb. If top laner pings you to gank, I don't want that because we Zera is not there. We want to drag them over to drag. We don't want to drag them We don't want to be the ones dragged away.

We want to drag them over. So, yep, he knows. Very good. Zera. So.

So, yeah, never be the ones dragged over. Don't chase. Just force them to come to you. Yeah, if you generally if you force the enemy team to walk over to you, you're going to have a winning position. If you're being forced to walk over to a position, then you're going to have a losing position.

So, we want always play in our winning positions. I'm going to ping them back for a sec cuz we want to reset right before drag. I don't want this. We just defense. Okay.

Yeah, we're going to just play correct here. We're not going to over chase. We're not going to over greed. Just going to play against Quake for the most part. Like against Zyra here for the most part.

This is a little forced. Going to see what happens here. Nice, looks good. Looks good. We baited them perfectly.

I think he is a little bit out, but it's fine. They're basically giving up the entire game here just because we're pressuring dragon so hard. They really can't do anything. This isn't like they're playing super poorly. This is like GM masters Elo.

It's not really their fault. It's really no one's fault. It's just that we're playing for dragon and they're playing for top side. So, that's exactly how these game Oh, it's open? Cuz he really doesn't want to play anymore, but yeah, it It's just really tough for enemy team here when we're choking them out like this.

So, they have to really make a decision as a team. Do they all, you know, come into dragon pit? Zyra would try to get vision. He couldn't. It's just very tough for him to play.

So, then he's very unhappy that he's going to have to lose this game. But yeah, this is just what it is. My bot is AI. You know, it's the classic stuff comes out. Did Shen just take my Okay.

Don't want to see that from your top laner, but it's okay. >> [laughter] >> I mean Honestly, we're winning so hard that it doesn't really matter too much. So, it is all good. It's just that we played for full clear into It's fine. I don't mind.

I took his camps, he takes mine. It's okay. I wish that Shen didn't take mine, but it's okay. Yeah, we're not going to focus on top side. We don't really want this.

We're just going to focus on the dragon. And I'm going to ping them back. Just make sure that they don't over aggress or do anything weird. You always want to just try to help your team with their positioning. It's always better to just have the quick ping and then you just quick ping them back so then they don't over aggress without you.

We can probably do something here, but it's not too important. We're not really looking for anything. We don't mind. We don't mind. It's okay.

Can I take this? Oh, this is it. Okay. Not going to take it. Go back up.

Okay. We don't need anything right now. We're just chilling. It It's okay to just give things by the way. It's completely fine.

Like he's a little bit up in CS. That's cuz my team doesn't want to play and Shen is stealing my jungle camps, but it's fine. Not a big deal. This is complete This is Whoa, never do that, by the way. Oh my goodness.

He had Zena dead right there and he just randomly used his ability there. Going to have to back out here. We have lost this fight. Oh my goodness. Yeah, this is why it's so important to Yeah, his pings will con- continue to be ignored cuz he is not bad.

He's not good. All right. I'll report it. He also stole my camps. So, this is all like pretty expected from top laners.

Honestly, top laners are very confused a lot of the time. They don't understand dragons. So, you know, this very common theme. Top laners not understanding the dragon win con. But it is what it is.

But yeah, looks like we have controlled this game. You know, again, it's just grand masters, not challenger this game, so you don't really have any like super great players. So, of course they're getting crushed. It is what it is. But yeah, this is how you kind of handle all situations.

This game plan works anywhere. So, even in challenger, let's say like there's bunch of challenger players here, you'd still be able to run the same kind of formula. You basically choke them out around drag. You don't really have to worry about anything else. If anybody is getting gapped too hard, then you can kind of you know, try to just kill them with your team later on.

Yeah, we're basically just taking the scuff. Just keeping it even. Not really going to worry about too much here. Don't really have to. Going to just take a look at Baron just in case.

Yep, get a ward and then that's it. We don't really have to get too much here. We're just taking the soul. Force them to come out. Otherwise, it will be a little bit cringe.

Force them to come else they hide forever. So, I always say that. Do not throw because they I don't want them to have any chance of coming back into this game. I don't want to give them any hope. Sometimes, you know, it drags games on too long.

We just want to force them to come. Or just lose soul. So, they have two choices here. They can come now or they can lose soul. So.

We just want to make a choice. Make a choice. Like do you want soul or do you want to do they want to continue playing? Let's see. But yeah, they should all come here for the soul.

I want to ping them back like we're getting soul right now. So. Pinging for help but team wanted to push mid. I don't really think we care about mid tower right now. We don't really care.

We just want to make sure that we get the soul. I got it. Force them into a situation where they all have to die for this. Looks good to me. I will kill him.

Don't worry. And then we'll go for Baron. Shen really should have played for the TP. Sometimes top laners do end up doing this cuz they are bored. They didn't get to play much this game.

So, Shen really should have joined. It is unfortunate that he is rage quitting. But it is what it is. A lot of this time a lot of the time with a good team, you can carry the top laner.

Cuz the top laner really doesn't I mean, he doesn't have too much impact anyway. Other than coming to help for the dragons. So, that is the role of top laner in season 16. To help you get the dragon. So.

Split pushing doesn't really exist anymore just cuz wards were nerfed so hard. So, getting the barons, getting full objectives. Now it's time to play with full objectives. So, Riven as the I guess quote unquote like fed top laner 227 CS, level 14. He is going to have to deal with mountain soul and Baron as a top laner against like five people.

Four people, I guess, since Shen is not playing the game. So, we will see what's going on. So. I'm just going to take a few camps here while team is pushing up. So.

Wait for team. Wait for the team here. I'm just going to coach him real quick. Maybe they will know. Just going to chill.

Doesn't really matter right now. Ooh, he should be gone. He should be gone. Right now we're just searching for picks. Looking to kill.

I think he's dead, honestly. Yeah, I think he just We just flash on anybody who's not under tower, honestly. Never tower dive. Almost never. It almost If you tower dive, you are basically going to lose cuz you're basically throwing everything away.

So, you're getting hit by tower. You're kind of you you're kind of taking a lot more free damage than usual. So, you don't want to do that. Right now you just want to keep it equilibrium. You want to make sure that Oh, this is dangerous.

This is very dangerous. He could die. If he dies, it's not worth it because that stops our push completely. So, hopefully it's fine. But yeah, we're just chilling.

They're getting completely choked out this game. There's nothing they can do. We're just we're like the shepherds and then they're like the sheep, you know? We're sheep shepherding our teammates victory. Just forcing them to win even when Shen really doesn't want to win.

So. We're forcing our teammates to win and then we're forcing Desire to lose. So. And I'm making sure that we win this game. Not making any risky plays.

I didn't do anything risky the entire game. They never had a chance to kill me. They never even had any counter play to anything. We're just taking it slow. Pushing it in.

Don't even have to look, honestly, like anything that's happening. All you need is the mini map down here. You don't have to look at what's happening. You don't need to see the situation. You don't need to pan your camera around.

It's all good. Notice how little I did that this game. Just pretty much play this style and you should be able to climb a lot better cuz if you're panning your camera around like a crazy man, you're going to make yourself dizzy. You're not you're going to be so confused. You're going to have so much information on your screen.

You don't know what to do with it. You really need to play this control style. This is what really works. You're forcing your bad teammates to win. It's all good.

So. I think that is about it. Any questions, let me know in the comments below. Give it to Victor. Victor played a very solid game of League of Legends.

Appreciate that from my boy Victor. I'll catch you guys later.