How to climb as a jungler

All right. This game I'll be showing off how to get to dragon, always get early dragons. Pretty much do blue, gromp, wolves, >> [snorts] >> raptors, red, krugs. Hit the scuttle. I think Amumu gets there first, so maybe we hit the other scuttles.

Always do full clear. Continue downwards on our clear. This is fine. Just ping the sums get the timer on it. I think Amumu still left camp for that, so he's going to be to scuttle a little bit later.

He can also choose to skip camp and not be level four on it. Just ping that we're going. And we should be able to get this one. Amumu made a big mistake here cuz he's going to be slower on his clear, whereas normally he's going to be faster. Look at Amumu to punish.

Unless he skips a camp, which is okay with me, too. Just messes up his clear even more. So, it's up to him. Looks like he skipped a camp. Looks like he's going to be dead here.

We have a level on him, so I'm not scared of this. I'm just back here. Take the scuttle on top. Don't need to do anything. I have flash for anything, so play good luck.

Go here. We take the scuttle. Become We're just trying to stay as efficient as possible. We're taking the scuttle into gromp. We jungle downwards.

After we clear krugs here, we get upgraded 1,000 smite every time, so then we're just there for the dragon fight immediately. Just staying efficient with things. I think my teammates are very happy about this. Just cuz this is all from Amumu's level one mistake, or I guess level three. He just ran it down.

Even though he got a kill, it's not worth it for his tempo. His tempo is all ruined. He came to the scuttle fight level three. We knew we could take that. Only level three.

So, everything kind of makes sense. Amumu usually has a faster clear than Rek'Sai. Rek'Sai is one of the slower clearing champs, one of the weaknesses of the champion. So, really really strong in skirmishes, but really really weak in terms of clearing speed. So, Amumu is sacrificing his strength in order to play for the skirmish is a little bit rough.

What he should have done here is just given the scuttle. Get level four. It's okay to take an early kill. This is very troll by him. He's going to lose his tempo here.

Going to wait for the camp. There's not really too much more to do on the map, so we're going to wait. And then we're going to just continue clearing. After this, we get the 1,000 smite. We're also going to probably have two smite charges.

We just need to make sure we continue getting prior on the lanes. Maintain priority so we can just slam dragon. Honestly, I don't really need them, so ask a question of Is Amumu going to come or is he He's going to just AFK mid. Good. So, you always want to take the early drag here.

There's nothing else to do on the map, and scuttle is too far away, so it's always If you notice the spawn timers, it's always like this. This is going to happen every single game. If you As long as you stay efficient, you can stay ahead of scuttle timers, and you're going to be at scuttle or buff by the time it's up. You always want to buy a pink. Pinks are really good for vision control in any elo.

Now, this is kind of how to grab an early lead. From here, what you want to do is just continue jungling as normal. The game doesn't finish just because someone dies. They always respond, so don't have to really worry about it. Can't really catch him here.

Don't have to worry about it. Just want to stay efficient on the clear. I didn't really have too much more for him. All good. Don't want to get sidetracked with stuff.

Don't want to go off on weird adventures. You always want to be at your camps when it's spawning. They're all spawning, so we don't want to be late on this ever. If we waste time in League, then we're just going to we're going to lose. So, as jungler in 2026, you really have to stay on your camps cuz otherwise you're going to be too weak to fight anybody.

Just want to clear everything and then look for something after the clear. If you don't clear, then again you're going to be too weak to fight anybody. You're going to notice you're really far behind in levels. Top laner is going to have like three levels on you, two three levels. You can't fight that anymore.

So, right now, this is kind of what I do every game. You don't really even have to look for opportunities. You're just playing for the reset no matter what. It doesn't matter. We're playing for the reset into void s.

I have a minute to play on the map with full buy, which is going to be really strong for me. We're going to just tunnel one way towards top. We always want to set up these two tunnels. This It makes you really fast on the map. I think he probably is down here.

It's okay, though. Mid lane should not be roaming, by the way. He should not be roaming at this time. It's okay. He's beating him up too much, so we're just going to have to get in here.

Don't think I can dive this. I mean, maybe we can, but I think it's better to just void s only. Oh, he's probably doing it almost now. And here is where you can really attack them up. That's fine.

We'll take it. And we just go back to the full clear. Always want to continue doing this. Not much else going on in the map, so we are going to just continue. But yeah, this is a perfect example of you got to keep tempo.

You have to keep on full clearing. There is no There's not even You don't even have to look. You don't even have to look. If you If you're looking around, then you're going to miss time on your full clear. You just want to continue full clearing and then just playing it out afterwards.

There is no play you can do without full clearing. The reason this is so important in League is just because if you are not going to full clear, then you're not playing your champion to the best of its ability. So, every game will look like weird to you. Like you'll find that let's say you're down like three levels. Let's say Amumu is like level seven right now.

I'm at level nine. He's going to be playing the entire game as Amumu down two levels on enemy Rek'Sai. So, everything he does is going to be very weird and very very tough for him to play. So, he's going to think, "Oh yeah, Amumu is a weak champion. You know, I can't fight anybody on this champion." He's going to try something else, but in reality, it was just all from the early non-full clear that he did.

So, even though he got a kill, he's going to be down two levels. The rest of the game is going to look very very hard to play from here for him. Let's see. I think I'm going to look for drag here. Just want to mainly get the ward off.

If I can get the ward off, I'm happy, and then I'll just back. Again, we're backing right before big objectives. Just because I'm not going to force on 1,300 gold right now. They did see me, so he could be there. I did back on a ward.

That was a little bit unfortunate, but looks like a fight now. It's okay if team dies. It's not a big deal if team dies. If they win, it's good. If It's fine.

Like either way, we're good. We got the full clear off. We're scaling. And then now we are going to just give them a WP and then we're going to move on to the next objective. Which is going to be on the dragon here.

If you can smite early always and then just grab two smites for it. It's pretty worth it to do. Saves you some time, especially when nobody is going to help you clear it. So just going to smite it. Let's move on.

Start checking things. Maybe some things are going to be up. That's going to be up. We're playing vision. If you don't have any vision, it's good to just clear.

Tried to hit me, but it's okay. Not really too much to be doing on the map here other than just checking things. Checking everything. But yeah. Just going to take one.

I wouldn't even Honestly, we can just take it. It's probably not to dive this. Okay, fine. It's pretty grief, honestly. It's pretty grief, honestly, to do that.

I shouldn't have done that. After Leona misses a E, that's already not a play anymore. It's fine. It's okay. Keep on full clearing.

So if your camps are like this and you started on Krugs, you can actually smite red. And then smiting red will allow the camp to be closer in spawn time to the other one. So basically, I cleared Krugs first and then I went to red. I want to basically smite red in order to get the respawn time closer. So now they're a little bit more close.

And then here, doesn't matter what Ambessa does. He died. He's going to be even further down in terms of EXP and gold. He can't really do much. So just looking at stats.

Okay. My team's morale is pretty high. Would like to see it. Think this is around high diamond, low master right now. I'm on a smurf cuz it's right before has it, so it's not really too big of a deal.

We can just go and maybe clear the camps again. So because we smited the red earlier, it's going to be up by the time we finish clearing Krugs, so we're going to be able to get on this and then we're just going to continue. Don't really have to look. We can give off a ping for them to be careful, but other than that, it doesn't really matter to join right now. We're going to play for the drag spawn.

So you just give off a ping that you're not there. It doesn't matter if they can go or not. It's always better to play on the side of caution anyway, so better for them to be careful rather than not. And then we want to go on cloud. So you just ping dragon a couple times.

People know and then again, no plays until after we buy, so we're just going to base here. Become really disciplined with this. There's a lot of time in between all the camps. If you press tab, there's a lot of time here. We have about a minute and 30.

That's going to be a lot of time to play on the map. Plenty of time to impact the game. We're going to just start we shouldn't be here. So Okay. We're going to try to ping the team back.

It's up to them if they want to pay attention cuz right now basically Kai'Sa can hit them for free. You don't want to be doing this. You don't want to be inting into tower. It's hard to get onto Kai'Sa here, which means the focus priority is a little bit tough. Okay.

Maybe we can impact. I think he TP'd as well. Yeah, this is just not what you want to do. Fine though. I need him.

I need him alive. I need to ping him back so he doesn't die. And then we can just take this. It It's just we don't want to be inting onto the tower. We want to just be doing this.

It's fine. We're going to do this. It happens a lot in solo queue where they want to just run into the tower and then just die, but it's fine. We're going to just reset here. Doesn't don't necessarily need to reset.

Catching up on a message. There's nothing there. All right. We're just kind of chilling for now. Again, never miss a full clear here.

Always want to stay disciplined. It's okay if team dies. It's okay whatever happens there. We don't really have to care about it. Don't even have to look.

The thing is with League now is you just you can kind of focus on your own champion and then don't really have to look around too much. I would even say it's better not to look just because if you're, you know, especially in the lower ranks, if you're looking around a lot, then you're not going to be focused on what's happening around you, so you can kind of just keep on playing your own game. And then just looking at the mini map only at what's happening. I'll get used to only looking at the mini map, honestly. It's too confusing even for me to pan your camera around and try to discover what's going on.

Good. Just going to Baron is in 40 seconds. Maybe we can. I don't know if this is good. I don't know if we can.

Let's see. Should be able to, right? When does it respawn? Shouldn't be up there, but it's fine. Like honestly, a lot of this time, even if you ping them back in lower ELOs, they're not going to know what you mean.

So you're going to have to accept that they're going to have to die. So it's fine. We're just going to chill for now and then we're going to hit a reset right before scuttle. We have enough time to get there. Always hit the resets.

Never miss your resets. A lot of things are happening. Okay. This is especially good if you have a shutdown, so you have to be at your strongest when fighting them. All right.

Let's see who we have. I'm only looking at tab. Okay. I think he can die. Okay.

Very nice team. As you can see, our mid laner is not too strong this game. It's mainly just we worked off a bot. We didn't really play off of that. And top lane is kind of coin flip.

I didn't really see Riven too much this game, so honestly, wasn't too much of a difference. But yeah, we are basically just scaling up. Killing spree. Killing spree. Let me I've got to back off here.

Okay, so order of operations generally, I can go into this in a different video, but order of operations you generally want to play for soul, especially in solo queue. You want to play for soul. If you can't get soul, then you want to play for Baron. These outer turrets can only be broken with Baron. You shouldn't be looking any further than these with without Baron in terms of like order of operations.

So, we do need to keep this. We do have to keep Yeah, I missed the farm. We're at 230 CS coming up on soul point. 144 CS here. He is suffering.

He is down a lot. He doesn't understand what's happening to him right now. And he got it. Going to come through. Going to ward this.

Going to let Leona go first. That is good. We don't want to over commit. Yep, no over committing here. Buying time.

Nice. Here we're going to summon rift. Always summon rift. You can see this happen a lot with lower elo where you don't summon rift in time. You always want to summon rift just because gives your team some added pressure.

I think they're just giving drag cuz drag just went mid. So, I saw him on the mini map. He went Oh, I almost lost that. That's insane. Alt for the movement speed on soul.

Okay. You always want to take Baron here if they are ace and still not FFing. You never want to take towers without Baron buff. It's not a good idea. You'll notice that in solo queue a lot of people they want to go at the towers, tower dive and stuff.

Don't want to do that. You just want to continue methodically taking over the game. I wouldn't even say like there's no need to really like invade to take resources. You can, but you get lost in the sauce and you miss your full clears. I would even suggest in this position, it's not technically correct, but I like to do it in lower elos where you just take your own camps.

Like you want to just continue jungling as normal. You don't want to fall behind ever. You just want to keep on going as normal. Like even though you have Baron, unless the team is grouping for an objective, you want to just keep on clearing. You don't want to risk your shutdown.

You don't want to you know, it can be like the game will go on until elder. You don't want to unless you can pick someone, unless someone's really out position. You do want to just continue jungling. Keep on leveling up. You're not done until you hit six items and level 18.

So, just keep on going. Here I'm only going to clear one contract. It seems like we're grouping and we're going to fight. So, we're going to have to do this. We're just going to focus the first target, of course.

You don't want to fully dive unless it's a really good opportunity to. People generally have a lot of escapes, so you want to just keep on playing with the team, focusing one target down. Okay. I don't like this. We're good.

We like it. Seems like they are not FFing. This might be the end. Good example of what to do this game. This might be an end angle, but we'll see.

I think it is. We have wards. We played really efficient this game. We got everything we wanted. Yeah, I don't know what this is.

It's okay though. It's okay. We're just going to look to end. All right. Good guys.

Looks good. We played the team. They won a lot of fights without me. Got to give it to them. Yeah, looks good.

Do in and down right here. Looks good. And