One question, answered from the books
Why am I farming well but still losing?
Because farm is fuel, and you're not driving anywhere. A clean clear is just the entry fee; the seconds it buys have to convert into something the map can feel, a Dragon taken on time, a deep ward, a gank that takes fifteen seconds, a cross-map trade. If your CS is high and your influence is invisible, you're in the classic shape of the Tempo Trap: motion without a named play. The other common leak hides in the same scoreboard, a level lead beats a kill lead, but only if you spend it while it exists. Farm that never gets spent is just an inventory.
The decision, as a picture
What it looks like in a real game
Two games, same 8.5 CS per minute. In one, every clear ends with a named play: ward, gank window, reset, pit. In the other, every clear ends with a hover and a shrug. The first player is called a macro god in the post-game lobby. The second one posts his op.gg on Reddit and asks why he's hardstuck. It's the same farm; only one of them is driving it anywhere.
The concept: The Tempo Trap, again
The Tempo Jungler exists for exactly this player, the one whose fundamentals are fine and whose time evaporates. The one-line audit: a fast clear that ends in hovering is motion, not tempo.
"Kills are temporary gold lead."
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In this video: Why both junglers path toward bot after the first clear, and what it costs you when you don't. The game shows the double full clear into scuttle into dragon plan run on repeat, and how a delayed clear puts a jungler levels behind with no way back; stacking dragons is the win condition in games that stall out.
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All right, guys. So, in this video, I'm going to try to show again, it's going to be around GM masters. Going to just try to show how to path in League. Of course, after the first clear. So, going to show it off again.
Let me see what's going on here. Okay. Yep, we're pathing towards bot. But, aside from that, we're going to try to learn how to best effectively do that. This might not even be in a good example video just because we're already winning.
But, let's say they're even. Say it's my moral support letting them win early. Yeah, both junglers should be pathing towards bot. It's just pretty standard in higher ELOs. You always want to do this to secure first dragon in order to give your team the best chance of winning.
There must be some stat out there that says first dragon helps you secure the win majority of the time. We're just playing for soul cuz in higher ranked games, a lot of teams know how to stall the game out. Just try to clear waves and not die under tower. So, a lot of the time we're just waiting for dragon soul win condition or elder win condition. So, the higher you go, the more they're going to stall it out.
The more we're going to they're going to be able to play out the game to the fullest. So, that's why you need every single stacking advantage that you can possibly get. But yeah, we're just pretty much going to play for that win condition here. We drag the camp over. But yeah, looks like we do have a winning bot lane this game.
So, we're going to just continue pathing towards them. I think they're going to freeze. Oh, looks like he did skip a few camps. He is going to lose the game off this. Let me just I think he is just mid master, so I don't know if it is a little bit unfair, but it's okay.
I'm not really smurfing right now. It's towards end of season near reset, so you'll sometimes get these players that are going to troll. Well, yeah. We'll just showcase how to best close out the game. Make sure they lose, basically.
Just going to not do anything here. Doesn't really matter. I think they're going to stop my back. It's completely fine. We have about 20 seconds-ish until the next thing, so we can kind of just continue winning bot for them.
They used all burst on Twitch. It didn't work out for them, so they're just going to continue playing. Oh. I flashed into my Leona. Not ideal, but it is it did have to be done in order to survive.
I'm okay with it. We should just be pushing mid. Okay, though. We're pretty much going to do another full clear and then go towards bot. We do have the smite and the pink ward, so things are going pretty good.
But yeah, you just want to play with your teammates. You don't really want to dive. You don't really want to split off, especially not early game. So, that's pretty much ideal way to play. It's just want to play with them.
But yeah, I think there's not too much else to go over. You just want to do the double full clear and just scuttle into dragon. You pretty much want to run this strategy every single game. Rengar did a weird three-camp blue side clear. He delayed his camps.
Pretty much, he's going to be about one or two levels down the entire game now just because of that. So, there's not much he can do. I'm going to have just a lot more tempo than Rengar. Originally, I think Rengar actually clears similar speed to Rek'Sai level one, so it is a little bit about the timings here. He would have been able to keep up, and we would have been able to fight it out.
Maybe he have to skip. Maybe go back to top side and get the scuttle there, but he would have been able to at least it it's not really like he had to concede everything just to try to get top ahead. So, just going to punish the mistakes. Ooh, this is a little bit troll, but it's okay. Happens sometimes.
What the enemy team could do if they're really good is just beeline it towards dragon and try to keep it. There's an opportunity for them to take it if they're really smart. What likely will happen because Rengar is a little bit delayed in his camps originally, is he's just going to reset and take his raptors here. So, Rengar is here. So, that's another reason why you have to be fast.
If Rengar was fast, if he didn't mess up his clear, then he would have been able to take the dragon or at least contest it when he got the kill on bot lane. So, he would have been able to sprint it over. Let's say all those campers down. Maybe dragon's the only thing he needs to do. So, then he would have been able to take it.
But, given that he made a mistake early, we're just going to punish on it and then pretty much just take everything. Get really, really fed. Play with a bunch of resources. Notice how we're not really panning around. We're not really too curious about what's happening.
Because like a lot of junglers, I feel like overcomplicate the situation. It's not really too complicated. It's not really that deep. It's just you don't want to like look at everything. I noticed that Rengar is bot on the mini map.
I don't need to actually check the situation or check anything. You can just see the mini map, and the mini map should already tell you majority of information that you need to know. So, in this situation, right? Majority of junglers will actually try to do invades or try to go and take stuff. This actually just messes up your full clear.
You do want to keep on securing it. You just spent tempo to do dragon. So, you need to capitalize on the tempo. So, this is where majority of junglers will fail, and a lot of coaches or I see content creators try to like tell you to invade and try to steal camps away. You see Rengar's bot.
Let's go check his jungle. We're not really playing to do that. I mean, it's just more optimal to just clear everything and then be there next time. If that makes sense. So, you don't really want to play super crazy.
You don't really have to move your camera around. This is high master GM ELO, so it works pretty much anywhere. You just need to focus on yourself. Maybe just try to work on your mechanics, and you want to always play from a position of strength. So, after you do your full clear, you will be strong enough most of the time to contest almost anybody on the map.
So, basically, now I did my full clear. I can look around. I can do whatever I want now just because I am at my strongest, so looks like everything is gone here. We're just going to look to play. Everything is gone, so we do have tempo, and then we're just going to kill him real quick.
Surprise. Oh, I missed my E. It's a little bit awkward. Happens, though. I don't know why my team didn't come.
I might die here. Yeah, I'm alive. We're good. I'm going to double E away. Look at that.
Yeah, just play slow. Play with the team only. I got him. Do I live? I died.
I died to the It's fine. It's good. But yeah, again, like Rengar, he's going to be very far behind. He's already 20 CS down. This is very early in the game.
He is going to lose the game off of this. So, essentially, he died. 20 CS down. Ideally, in order for him to catch up in this situation, he would have had to kill us all without dying and then eat camps in order to even up the score line. But instead, you know, some mistakes were made by Lissandra or whatever.
He didn't have ult. It's fine. It is what it is. I will have to keep in mind that Lissandra is not performing too well, but it's okay. I'm not really going to worry about that.
Don't really have to look at what's happening there. We can just tell off the mini map where they are, where they're going towards. Moving around your camera like a crazy man will just confuse the out of you. So, you will have to just ping them back. You're never going top side in this situation.
It doesn't really matter for you. Mainly focus on the dragon. So, this is always correct pathing. You want to go from top side of the quadrant, your side, to bot side, to their jungle. So, if you can.
If can't, your teammates aren't pushed up here, then don't do it. But, yeah. Pretty much this is should be the formula you run every single game. But, yeah. It's pretty much But, yeah.
This is live commentary, so don't really know what's going to happen yet, so we'll see. But, this is pretty much the correct play every single time. Always want to play correct way, which is for soul ever since void got nerfed, you just want to be focused on soul. So, you ping them back here and then drag the dragon out. Force them to come to you, force them to make a decision.
Do they want to keep soul, or do they want to just keep on fighting? Let's see. Like, do I want to give up minions, or do they want to come for soul? I'm going to ping my mid laner who is a little bit playing poorly. Okay.
He smited early, I think. I kind of messed up. I'll be honest. I kind of messed up a little bit. It's fine.
I think he smited early, or I smited early. It's fine. But, yeah. Normally in those situations, it's fine cuz what's going to happen is Oh, what is this? Okay.
I mean Yeah. Nautilus had to like You can see that Nautilus even had to flash over the wall to get to us. Like, there there's no situation like they're so desperate in order to try to get anything back. We're just completely smashing them because they know. Like, everybody knows.
Like, if you are in the spot you're just extremely desperate to get anything. And then you just can't play the game anymore as a result. So, Oh, I should have probably held onto my audio there. It's fine, though. But, yeah.
Like, now because Rengar lost the fight he just loses so much pressure on the map. He has to spend smites on camps and all that. Like, it is not it's not even good. It's just to try to get him to see things better. But, yeah.
Like, he's going to play almost two levels down the entire game just because he wasted time. And it's mostly his fault this game. I would say like sometimes it's not their fault at all. It's just the way naturally the games will go. But, yeah.
Like, naturally you're going to have a winning team. You're going to have a losing team. So, naturally you're just going to like the team with the most dragons usually just wins. So, let's say you're getting the dragons, most likely you're going to win. Here, I'm actually going to have to ignore the team because I already pinged them back multiple times.
It is up to them. I don't want to go into fog. I don't want to you know, mess with that. It's up to them. If they want to play it, they can.
But, yeah. We are onto the full clear. We have to do it. There's no choice cuz if I let's say I go over there, I die, I mess up. You always full clear after the objective.
And then you just continue doing this. I will only have time after this full clear ends. I missed my queue. But, yeah. This is another example of what to do for challenger jungling in season 16.
But, yeah. This is your game plan every single game. And it does not change for any reason. So, the This is just extremely optimal. You just try to fight around dragon, and then you don't take too many fights afterwards.
But, yeah. I'm always going to try to take fights that I don't really care about him. I think Yeah, he's already proven that he's not very strong right now, so we don't really have to care about him. Just searching around for farms after his after everything is gone. Yeah, he is he's very angry.
He's like, "Oh, I want to gank." You know, I want to play the game, too. I want to have fun. But, Yeah. It is unfortunately not the case this game. We're just going to take his camps here, and then he will just lose it again.
He's going to be maybe three levels I'm hoping I can make him like three levels down. Maybe more. If he continues not farming, then Okay, this looks free now, so I will finish up the camp. I mean, he's already winning against us. I don't really care for it.
I should have been done. It's fine. They're not happy, but it's okay. You don't Your job isn't to make them happy. Your job is to win the game.
So, we're going to just keep high tempo. Not going to waste time diving or anything like that. He should have been able to kill him. He's four levels up, but it's up to him. Yeah, you shouldn't acquiesce to anybody's like demands or any weird stuff that's happening.
Don't care about it. Like, it's completely fine. Yeah, Nautilus is a hero. He played very well here. I'm going to just push it out just because nobody else seems to be coming.
So, sometimes you do have to look at the map a little bit. The mini map says that Twitch is going mid, so we're just going to push it out here. But, yeah. This is just how you completely shut out games in season 16. This style of jungling is just super broken right now.
You have to only care about the dragons. Nothing else really matters. You always skip herald. It takes a lot of tempo, and most players don't really know what to do with it anyway. So, basically I don't like this.
I don't like this move. But, it's okay. Just going to force them out. This is a very like also maybe measured, maybe boring way of playing. So, we will have to see.
Because basically you're skipping a lot of fights. I've you know, one guy commented, "Oh, you're This is so boring. You're skipping a bunch of fights." Yeah, I mean, I do cuz they don't really matter. I'm only looking to win the game when I'm playing ranked. I'm not really looking to have fun playing fights.
We're just looking to force them out, choke them out. Now they have to make a decision. Do we come for dragon, or do we come for Gwen? What do we do? A lot of the games end up looking like this.
But, yeah. Looks like Rengar has conceded. He's given up. He's realized that he can't get anything this game, so he's going to be forced three levels down. Maybe we can make him four levels down.
We'll see. But, yeah. This is only again, this is only like masters jam. I think there's not really too much they can do. This is just what happens if you just path for bot maintain good control is generally like just way stronger.
I guess their bot lane is, you know, way out classed. So, maybe it wasn't the best example of what you can do solo, but Yeah, but it is a good example of what to do when your team is pinging for you. You just ignore them, honestly. That That's just the main a good indicator of what to do when the team is spam pinging you is to not follow. That that is your go-to kind of thing.
If you see that your teammates are being annoying and spam pinging you, then you know already not to go. This happens in all Elo, so anytime you want to be aware that this is kind of going to just be the case. All right. Looks like camps are spawning up there. Things are happening, so we don't have to look around.
We're just going to go to back to the camps. We're going to rerun the same formula. Don't really have to care about anything else. You know, just very focused on full clearing, maintaining good resource. You're going to your game is going to look like this.
You know, no matter what's going to happen on the map. They're going to throw. They're going to kill each other. Whatever. It doesn't really matter too much, right?
You're not really looking for highlight plays. Not really looking for one v fives. We're just looking to win in ranked right now. So, this is just going to be your formula to win the game every single time. You don't really have to care about much.
But, yeah. It is a little bit unfair because I do have mechanical advantage as well on them, so even if they did run the same strat, then they would still lose. So, but, yeah. I'm not smurfing or anything. This is just they just naturally lose but, yeah.
Sometimes you do get like griefing top lane. I can probably showcase that as well. What to do when your top lane completely goes AFK. Sometimes you can't win them all. But, this play style does induce a lot of top laners who just feel like they're being ignored, feel like they're really dejected.
They don't want to play anymore. Stuff like that. But, then the bot laners sometimes just go like this as well. So, it is a kind of you get the both worlds. You get bot lanes that go AFK, and then you go get top lanes that go AFK.
I'm going to ping them back cuz I'm not there. I'm focusing on farm. But, yeah. Looks like Rengar has finally realized that he needs farm, but it is a little bit too late. For my boy.
He is it's not really his fault. It's just he tried one play, and that kind of ended his game. I choked him out after that. So, you just maximally punish him for his one mistake. He went top.
He didn't get anything, or maybe he got I don't even remember if he got something. Doesn't even matter if he gets something or not. I've said this before. You if the moment you ruin your clear, the game is already over. It's very very tough, honestly, in higher Elo.
You can't make the first mistake. So you can't come back after the first mistake if the other players are going to play well in high elo, so it's going to be interesting. Oh, something flashed. Yeah, he's just going to be two levels down, two three levels down the entire game now. Nothing he can do.
Here we can actually just go Baron, so we're just going to back out of here. Going to back out of here. I'm going to ping him back and then we're going to take the Baron because Rengar just died. Going to ping it more so the team knows. I'm going to use the ping on this one just cuz I want to feel comfortable when doing it.
So just going to do this. I'll smite it just because team is a little bit late, but it's fine. I will try to save smite here for the dragon. They might come to steal it, but I think it might be up. I don't know.
I'm not really sure even sure. Oh, yep, looks like double smite was needed. Lissandra is getting caught out here. It's fine though. We don't really have to worry about him.
We don't really have to care about this at all. They're going to be like, "Oh hey, why aren't you helping me? Why aren't you dying with me?" you don't really have to care about them. Like it's just they don't really matter. Unfortunately in this game.
It's just about me, Twitch, Leona. So just ignore them and then play for the drag play for drag setup. But yeah, pretty much just playing for that. I don't know. Whatever happens here doesn't matter.
You just go play for the drag. >> [laughter] >> a lot of the time team will not want to do it. The only time where I say it matters is if team dying will directly impact your chances of getting the dragon. But honestly as jungler a lot of the time you can look for steal plays even if your team has died. I'll I'm going to show a couple.
Maybe I I'll post a couple of steal plays where you can just even if your team is dying, you can make the difference as a jungler. So this is why jungle role is really broken. It's really unfun. It's very unfair. This is how you can make it the most unfair possible for the enemy team.
No matter how good K'Sante is doing or Morgana is doing, they're you know, they're trying the best. They're playing the best like they they're having the best game. They're just getting choked out by superior resource management. You know, let's say they killed the enemies like a lot. See.
So yeah, I'm just going to light them up, one shot them. There's no no real so there's no real counter play now for him. I think he's just completely gone. He was just basically choked out the entire game. Nothing he could really do.
If he joins his team, it's bad. If he doesn't join his team, it's also bad. But yeah, and then Morgana is just trying his best still. It's like they think they can kill me. It's so funny.
But yeah, not much they can do. But yeah, with Baron it's finally time to end the game, push to end. It's always just kind of classic. So another case of the classic game what you want to do every single time. This works up until like maybe mid challenger I'd say cuz around there you're going to have players also doing the same thing, so then you're going to have to fight them and then it becomes a real mess cuz they're going to be doing the same thing as you and then you're going to need to make some hard decisions.
So maybe I'll show that in a future video. We'll see. Thanks for watching guys. I'll catch you later.
"But potential that never converts is just time spent."