A great tip to improve as a jungler when reviewing your own replays

Jungle

Usually, when you analyze the replays you either turn off the fog of war completely or take on your own point of view. A great way to expose your own weaknesses and to get a better impression of the pressure you are applying to the enemy team is to view the game from your opponent's point of view, through the eyes of their laners and most importantly, their jungler.

  1. This will also make it easier to be objective about the own performance, because the memories of the game will often cause bias when reviewing from the same perspective. By switching to the opponent's point of view you engage more with their decisionmaking which tones down bias.
  2. Often, you'll find that enemies were pretty greedy or exposed during certain times of the game, yet you didn't punish them for it. The question now is whether or not you could have noticed that in time and created a response to punish.
  3. Especially when playing against better opponents: what did they do to get ahead and was there a way to prevent them from doing so?
  4. When you were ahead: try to get a feeling for the pressure you apply to the enemy team. Then switch between teamvisions to find clues and indicators for the pressure. This will make it easier to understand how pressured (and thus desperate) your opponents in future games will be and also what they really don't want you to do to them.
  5. When you were behind: what is the typical enemy in your current MMR focusing on when getting a lead? Is there any way to stop them, or is there any kind of predictable behaviour than you can use in future games?

Posted Apr 8, 2018, 8:05 AM UTC · edited

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EricThexDGold II•

this sounds like a bunch of great tips, appreciated

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ElSirFlufflesUnranked•

Jesus Christ. This is some top tier advice.

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No-Nose-Goes•

Yea this put a lot of what I do in the jungle into perspective, thanks for the great advice!

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ZivozZ•

I would watch better players then myself and learn new stuff and copy it.

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heisika•

Just what i needed!

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a_person_i_amUnranked•

Great tips, but what program, would you recommend to record your games, since I remember a thread a month or so back that said plays.tv was causing issues with league. Do you just use the client viewer

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ownagemobile•

What's wrong with the client, it's pretty good for just viewing replays? You're able to switch the fog of war to enemy team too

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ChawooraSilver IV•

OBS (https://obsproject.com/) is a popular (free) program that supports recording and streaming.

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FreshMctendies•

The in-game client is actually really good right now. I highly recommend it.

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JustJoro•

This is awesome. Never thought of that.

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