What do I do when every lane is losing?

Hello everybody. I've been back here with another little bit different of a video, but it's going to be a Challenger Jungle guide for season 16. Today we're just going to be talking about a little book I just made on jungling, so staying disciplined in the jungle and everything. So, going to be kind of discussing that while playing in Challenger, so you can see that you know, you do have a lot of guys here that you might know from streams and stuff. Twitch Yellow Santa, Adam, Jose, Never Wave.

>> [laughter] >> These guys who are, you know, very talented at the game, top of the ladder. But yeah, I just wanted to kind of talk about my thoughts on kind of the overall game state so far, League of Legends as a whole, and then kind of just reviewing some of the key concepts I think are very important from the little PDF book that I kind of made earlier. But yeah, if you guys want, it's free, completely free. You don't really have to you know, purchase anything. I'm not really going to make anything like for profit or anything like that right now.

I'm just looking to just provide good enough value so that you guys can maybe learn from, and we can kind of just go from there. We are going to path towards Karthus here. A lot of the time this is a little bit dangerous cuz he does play very crazy, so we're going to just not really care too much about that right now. We're just doing our clear, doing our strategy. I'm pretty much showcasing why the strategy is good, and then where like even against the best players in the world, it does work.

It just, you know, your results may vary a little bit based on how well you can execute it, but the strategy is very, very good. So, I would just kind of I mean, me saying that is like kind of you know, I'm biased for sure, but I've been doing the strategy for many years now, and I'm it's, you know, it's finally time to share it. So, I will be kind of bearing this kind of like just super tempo focused farm heavy play style. I think Aggren also talks about it and I think that's where it really got popularized back in the day. So, even though your teammates are paying you to gank, you are not ganking, you are farming.

As long as your camps up, you must farm them. So, yeah, he just pinged me. He's going to ping me more. It is what it is, right? So, people are going to they're going to be a little bit angry at this play style, right?

Like not everybody is going to agree. Like as a jungler, you must do this. It's going to be your bread and butter for season 16. I know for other seasons it might be different, but at least for this season, it should be like this at least. So, and I just try to make it out here.

Looks like we're fine here. Really good from the boys. Udyr does jungle faster than me and he you know, does do better than me early. So, I don't know why he tried to fight that. It's all good though.

They did have a little window to roam there, so that's why we kind of had to get out. Hm. Kind of dangerous to do. Oh, he's out. He had a flash, so it is fine.

It is good. But yeah, so Azir dying twice early is not really too great for us. Going to kind of talk about the beginning. So, a lot of the reason why most junglers don't climb is just because they're playing very chaotically. So, essentially you're in a situation where you're going to be kind of you're getting pulled everywhere, right?

Like a lot of the time like Okay, Azir is very high challenger. He is paying me to gank. I don't have tempo for it. Like you can see all my camps are up and scuttles are up. If we gank right now, we lose the game because essentially like he's they're going to do what laners do.

They're going to be fine. They're going to farm up. I don't want to fight for Azir early, especially not after two deaths. He's got to be very frustrated with me this game, right? But the thing is like a lot of junglers, they will not be able to ignore the pings.

And then they're going to come over and even if they get a kill, it's really bad for their tempo. So, then they end up losing anyway. So, it's just not a good look to constantly pan your camera around and look for plays and stuff like that. Like Azir is two levels down. He's spam pinging me.

It's not good. We'll have to give this situation and just kind of back out. It's completely fine though. Like we're okay. We gathered as many camps as we could.

We got invaded out. So, that's completely fine. We're going to go opposite side here and then just play where Udyr is not. So, a lot of people will be like, "Oh yeah, aren't you missing your camp?" Yeah, I am, but he is also missing his camps, right? Like he's going to be a little bit behind as a result.

He's going to lose on tempo. Yes, he does get, you know, dragon and stuff, but you know, it looks fine. Like people are doing fine. Like the game will go on without you whether you gank or not, right? You you're not going to be you know, in a super terrible spot just because you don't gank like one time, right?

So, you will be in a super terrible spot, however, if you are ganking and then you die and then the game is looking a little bit lost, right? So, you just have to keep that in mind. This is the correct way of kind of playing it out. Here because he did dragon earlier, I'm going to just kind of look to steal away this camp. I have a feeling he might have Yeah, he might have backed.

He's going to try to get his camp back, but it is all good. We're going to just run it out. If he chases, so be it, but All right. It is okay. We're going to get invaded here.

There's not really too much we can do since the team is a little bit behind. Going to have to go opposite side again. So, again, you're going to have situations like this where you just have to play really respectful. Udyr's definitely playing to, you know, be really crazy and stuff, so going to have to go opposite side and kind of going to have to go explore his territory a little bit. Don't want to go for this.

This is a little bit awkward. Flashed out. It's all good. So, it is okay. You will have to just respect these situations, right?

We have really losing mid, so Udyr's going to have to aggress and then we just have to drop our camps and run. There's not really too much fighting going on here for the camps. You know, he is kind of just destroying my mid lane a little bit, so it's okay. Got Karthus ult here. We just have to scale up and then make sure that we're doing okay.

But yeah, like essentially I'm staying very disciplined this game, right? Like I'm not going to you know, baby rage, try to fight them everywhere, like try to do everything like that. I'm going to take my chances and just kind of you know, chances were that Otis didn't have both summoners there because they were fighting a lot but so chances were good that I would be able to get that but if I don't, it's okay. It was a very good try. But yeah, we're just going to have to continue kind of in this little situation here.

It's not really like there's not really too much you could have done. You guys can see like they they're spending like we went down a little bit early so they just basically has foreign kind of like move around and you know, definitely do some good invades on us after you know, Udyr finishes his clear so it is okay. Going to be able to pick up something here. Damn, not really. Very close.

Oh, we're going to have to just meet them. It is all good. This is mainly from the losing situation mid. We definitely could have gotten them but it's definitely a little bit close. I guess yeah, a little bit toxic on the voice but it's okay.

I guess high challenger is a little bit awkward to show when I'm trying to speak on the little different topics here. But yeah, it's okay, right? I think our camps should be back up top side so we're going to have to go collect those. We're going to be playing for a little bit from behind so like it's just cuz top lane wants to freeze and mid lane also wants to freeze and then we don't really have priority anywhere. Bot lane also wants to freeze.

When all three of your lanes are kind of freezing like this, there's not really too much you can do. So it's all good, right? But yeah, you just kind of want to stay this blend even, you know, throughout all of the chaos going on. So, you know, there's a lot of things going on. You just kind of want to continue on your gameplay.

Just, you know, keep on doing what you're doing. Don't need to really crash out over small things. It's not really worth it. Yes, there is Udyr here. So, we are just going to kind of chill.

We're going to look for the dragon here. Dragon is really, really good in season 16. They were able to take the first one cuz my team wasn't really playing around it. We do need to scale. That's the only issue with our team comp is that we're not really scaling.

Like we're very scaling champions. So, if we're unable to scale and we're fighting constantly, then things are going to look really rough. Like Azir dying one V one versus Smolder is not unrecoverable, but him dying again is another time after he TP'd back. You know what I say? Like when you're basically when you have TP, you can play one more time, but when you die one more time If you die two times with TP, then you are out of the game.

So, they are running the same dragon strategy. As you can see, Udyr jungles pretty quickly, so he is able to kind of get a lot out of that. But yeah, I think he's here right now. Oh, my Varus missed ult. That's not good.

He needed to hit his ult. That's honestly very awkward. Oh, if he hit something there. They were CC'd too, man. Like they were That's fine.

You can let it go. It's okay. Like people are going to make mistakes. It's not going to be a big deal, honestly, in the long term. A killer, you know.

The game is going to be very long. They're running the same strat. As you can see, Udyr is going bot. He's clearing his camps and he's looking for little invades here and there on us. We just have to kind of recover our tempo by kind of going on.

Ooh, what is this? Ah, there's too much fighting going on, right? Like they think it's jungle diff, but it's really not. Like he's 4-1. It's not really like that.

It's like basically he was able to clear everything and invade because my teammates are Like it's mainly because mid isn't able to like kind of defend himself, so he's able to kind of Like generally speaking, if you had a mid lane who's able to kind of fight on his own, then he can do a lot to the Udyr when he comes in. But because Udyr knows that my mid lane is not going to be able to help, then we're going to have to just play like this. And it's okay if your teammates flame and stuff. They're not going to really be able to understand the jungle because they don't play jungle. So then they're not going to understand like everything that kind of goes on.

But yeah, it is up to you to kind of continue playing well and even though, you know, it does look a little bit awkwarder at times, you do have to still play well. And then try to keep up your own farm and stuff. So It is okay, right? His support is always there, so we can't really invade. So Just try to keep this kind of mindset.

Try to keep this kind of like play style. And it'll help you keep a baseline for what you should be doing in game. So I think he's invading us, so we're going to kind of go on him in a sec. Can't really help him. Have to wait till our team.

Yeah, there we go. There we go. Oh, there we go. So, finally we get the punish. During that time Azir still managed to die mid alone.

So, you do understand this is Like we are kind of seeing what's happening here, right? So, Azir is tilting. He's like pinging, spamming. You know not to go if they're spamming. So this is kind of like a it's meant to be like a kind of review session for everything.

You want to treat dragon as your win condition. However, you can see this game, we're not getting it. You know, it's really going to be tough not, you know, because they're very strong early and they're running the same strategy. So, basically we're getting the strategy. We're getting the experience right now, right?

And of course, the camps are up, right? It doesn't matter to join the fights right now. Right? So, like we can see the we can see that we just have to recover. We can't really do too much right now.

Maybe we can go on him now because we do have team. He's not on the camps at least, so. It's all good. Azir is intending to just, you know, die for farm every time. That's going to be fine in long term.

Again, like kills kind of don't really matter. Dragons do matter. It's just that we weren't able to take it. They were able to run the same strat and kind of take the dragons from us, so. Little bit unfortunate there.

But yeah. I mean, essentially this play style isn't for everyone. It's just this is kind of what you have to do. I think, in my opinion, right? We got invaded a couple times.

We had to just give it up. We can't really contest them. We're weaker early. We have to find a better time. So, then that's what we're essentially doing.

Stay disciplined. Don't overplay your hands. The game is still going to be really close. So, you know, You can see like kills and shutdowns are being, you know, sent all around. And then you just have to kind of play for your outs.

A little bit like that. I think he might just be dead. So, I'm going to just probably have to leave him. I don't think this is playable for him. So, he was spamming pinging me to come.

I think it was a little bit premature, but it's okay. They're going to be invading here. I can't really help. So, we're going to try to go opposite side here. And then just try to attack.

I think last hitting mid is a little awkward here, but it's okay. I really like how my Seraphine played that. I like that a lot. That is really good. So, Yeah, he knows that he's going to back already.

Yeah, this is a very high elo game, so we just have to like kind of stay a little bit aware of everything. So, we do end up getting this because Ooh, he kind of knows. He kind of knows everything. They don't exactly have full vision. You can see he tried to check with wall.

They don't have full vision here. I need to see it. Need vision. Haha. Shoe is on the other foot now, boys.

We ended up making the play. We ended up getting the steal. That's how you do it. We're have a very strong chance of winning. Elo sent a very unhappy here because you know, they tried very hard to shut us out, right?

They tried very hard to tilt us, to, you know, like my team was trying really hard to do that. Honestly, a lot of the time it depends on what you're trying to play for. If you're trying to play for entertainment value, just tilt, you know, honestly, just crash out. Like you see me, you know, you see me try to you know, sometimes you see me just like start complaining and be like, ah, like these guys just trolled me so hard. Like I can't play the game anymore.

They're stealing my camps. So, like it is really not that big of a deal. Like even if your team is like running it down, like honestly, he was. We can kind of see it. It's going to be a long game either way.

So, just kind of, you know, try to stay locked in and try to kind of play for your own odds. Which is mainly dragon, but yeah, I can't really solo him. I'm not in a position to, I think, currently. So, because the camps are all up, we have to just hit the camps. It's very unfortunate.

So, I think he's always caught out luck here. So, I'm just going to smite him and run. He did use exhaust. This guy did do my camps here. But you can see with every invade, right?

Like Udyr's not actually getting super far ahead anymore. >> Really good. Really, really good. Really, really good. So, this is a very confusing sequence of events, but overall, they're getting shut out.

We are coming back. We got the Hextech Dragon, which is honestly one of the better dragons right now, so it kind of goes I think Hextech is the best and then fire and then ocean or and then cloud or ocean and then mountain is the worst. The mountain is the worst dragon just because later on it doesn't really matter if you are getting like an extra little bit of percent HP or percent I mean percent armor magic resist. It's really good like kind of early on when before people get their stuff online, but later on it doesn't really matter to have that, so. I just need to ward out and see what's going on here.

Can we maybe do this? I think we can, right? We should have some time to do this. Sure. Just doing this in order to not take too much damage.

Okay. Azir somehow died again. I think he's still kind of quiet quit. Of course, yeah, like as laners sometimes do, they just kind of blame the jungler and that'll be it for them, right? Like Azir could have ran interference on this and then definitely could have done something, but >> Yeah, they're really hyper aware.

This is a very high elo game, so it's fine. Yeah, this is some good play. You see how they killed someone and then backed out? This is exactly correct team fighting. Like both teams are playing extremely well at this point to the extent that it comes down to objectives.

I hope Azir can understand we need the dragon. Like I hope he doesn't actually leave. I don't actually know his mental state right now cuz I have him muted from before. He was just spamming me too much. Yeah, as Azir to Azir, never do this.

But it's fine. No, I smited too early, man. I smited too early. That's my bad. >> [sighs] >> That's tough.

That's tough. >> [sighs] >> Super close. close. It might actually be correct to go Ma here. I think I'm not even joking.

I think Ma is actually correct here. I almost never do this, but I think it's correct. We can contest it. Yeah, we end up using the CC maximally and then just kind of pressuring them really hard. And then now we just run away from Udyr.

This is game ending if done right. We're going to be pushing up the mid. They're going to be able to chase. It looks really good, guys. Completely fine if he dies.

But this is ulting cuz he's desperate. He's not actually going to get anything for this. He's very desperate. So, this is just a good showcase of how you want to just be patient in terms of these games. This is a very high challenger game.

This is the rank one lobby right now. I'm in rank two lobby, I guess, technically. So, we just want to be very careful here and just play for odds. I think it's zero slamming the inhib. I think that I think I agree with that.

Honestly, inhib being down at this point in the game, they're on sudden death. They can die at any time. So, them being able to lose at any time here is very powerful for us. They have to play very scared now. So, it is a very good game to showcase, I think.

But yeah, I talk about avoidant macro in terms of the book series as well, and this is kind of exactly how you kind of want to show it. Like, you don't want a situation where oh, they're really desperate. He actually entered. Oh, they also entered there as well. So, this is called avoid macro, pretty much.

This is exactly what it is. Coming to cover him real quick, just cuz Wow, he got outscaled here. Cuz the thing is like he doesn't want to lose the kill, so he's just trying to flash and be desperate, but in doing so, he actually loses a lot more than that. So, you can drive enemies to desperation a lot of the time here. I mean, he can't really touch me, so I don't know why Rakan is trying to do this.

>> Nice. We jumped him. I just back out of this. Signaling for the dragon take right now cuz we do need to keep this. Want to make sure we're as strong as possible.

Just letting them know, if you can buy it, do it, but it's completely fine if not. So, this is just kind of what you need to keep in mind when playing League. Like, it's going to be very back and forth. Matchmaking system is pretty crazy. So, you do have to keep this in mind.

I could have killed I could kill them right there. It looks really good for us, honestly. Close. Very close. Very close.

Ooh. >> [sighs] >> Very close game. He had his ult at the end. We shouldn't have died in the Karthus zone, but I think it's still playable. I think you know Ezreal did end up rage quitting, but he's trying his best, I think, now.

But he lost a lot of ground earlier from kind of rage quitting earlier, so we just we're going to have to hope that he comes back and recovers his mental. I think everybody else is playing okay, so Edge of Night is correct. These items are all correct. So, if you notice the builds, they're very good. And then yeah, I think it's looking okay for us still.

Even though we are No, we did lose a little bit of ground. I think we're still going to be okay as long as we can kind of maybe even split push this game. Okay. So, it's going to be close still. I'm trolling.

That was Mechanical Wire. I'm full dead. Game is over. Honestly, >> [sighs and gasps] >> it was okay. It was a good try.

It's a very good try, guys. I think we did a pretty strong showing, honestly. Given the circumstances, I think it was okay. So, I'm okay with this. Some Challenger games are like this.

You kind of just you know, it's very back and forth. It's very crazy. Give it up for our Tristana. He did very well. But yeah, it's you can still make games pretty close like this even in high Challenger.

I think I kind of I didn't get to speak about the PDF too much, but hopefully we kind of you know, we kind of saw a lot of it. So, objectives do win. So, Udyr was, you know, definitely he had three winning lanes and he was kind of able to snowball his lead through kind of bringing his, you know, laners over. I guess bot lane didn't really win too much. the score lines look okay from our bot.

It's just I guess he had two winning lanes. So, he was able to kind of use those teammates and take the dragons. I guess yeah, mainly you can't win every game. Of course, if you have, you know, some players like this, then you're not going to win. But, you can make it very close even at the very end.

So, yeah. Nice. Like, comment, subscribe. And I will catch you guys next time. See you soon.