Beginner Jungler: What Do You Do When All Lanes Are Losing?

Question

I’m still pretty new to jungling and I’m looking for advice.

What should you do when all three of your lanes are losing early, and your teammates start flaming you with things like “bad jungler” or “no ganks”? I do try to gank, but sometimes the enemy laner is already too fed or too strong, and we just don’t have enough damage to kill them.

When I ping for assistance on objectives like Dragon or Rift Herald, my team often doesn’t rotate. I usually ward the area and try to start it if it seems safe, but if I see the enemy coming, I back off.

In situations like this, what’s the correct play?
Should I just focus on farming my jungle and scaling, or is there something else I should be doing? At what point do you decide the game is unwinnable and consider surrendering?

Any tips for handling games like this (both gameplay-wise and mentally) would be appreciated. Thank you!

Posted Mar 4, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

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