Watched some skill capped videos about jungle since I want to get better at the role being my off role. A couple things I learned is that you should be prioritizing your most volatile lanes like melee vs melee, followed by ranged vs melee because ranged characters are naturally going to be having priority in their lane, or immobile characters. So at the start of the game, I placed a ward on enemy J4’s raps, and I proceeded to start my red buff targeting Gnar, and Viktor as key laners I want to shutdown.

I notice after I clear my Krugs, J4 shows on raps, which means he’s pathing from top to bot, so I let him my bot lane in chat know to be careful of J4 gank at around crab spawn. I spam ping tf fuck out of bot lane with red pings after I take crab, because me taking crab should be a reference point as to where J4 is at. Well, my adc decided to walk up into maokai’s root range for a minion or something, and dies to the most obvious J4 gank. No flame though, it’s one death. 

But when I am literally playing the game perfectly, tracking the exact location where the enemy jungler is, and pinging literally where he is at on the map, it gets really frustrating that my teammates give up deaths that were easily preventable. 

What ultimately saved me this game was tempo. J4 camped bot lane the entire game. He even invaded a total of 2 times (probably more) and wasted his time because my camps were already done by the time he came. My camps were always in sync the entire game so I naturally stayed ahead in xp while also impacting the top side of the map. Whenever J4 attempted to make a play with his quadrant up, I would use that time to finish my quad, and take grubs, rift, gank a lane, and even invade him because I know if you path opposite from each other, if I am doing my camps, and you’re not doing yours, yours are gonna be up for me to take. 

This made me realize xp is one of the most important things you can utilize in the game. If you fall behind in xp, and your team is inting, your chances of winning falls drastically.

I carried the most unwinnable game