Jungle Concepts - When to Stop Ganking a Lane

Описание: One easy idea will help you understand when to give up on a lane. Should you ever gank a losing lane? Should you ever leave a snowballing lane to let it play out? We answer these questions and some others! Up to date jungle guide for season 10, understand what lanes to gank and why.

0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Categorize lanes
0:58 - Golden rule for ganking
1:20 - Scenario: Lane that's beyond saving
2:14 - Scenario: Snowballed lane
2:56 - Scenario: Even lanes
3:26 - General guide disclaimer
3:45 - Summary & Outro

Everyone has heard "Never gank losing lanes!!" or "Focus on snowballing one lane really hard!!"

But there's a lot more factors to consider than just these die hard rules.

A few seasons ago I learned a concept that helped me understand what lanes I should pressure. Basically, junglers should categorize each lane as “Losing”, “Even”, or “Winning” based on CS and Kill differential.

Then you should only gank lanes where you can improve their category, or prevent them from falling to a worse one.

Slightly Losing Lanes

So if you have a lane that is behind by 1 kill or 15 CS, you can still gank them to bring them back to “Even”. But if your Yasuo ADC is down 6 kills and 30 CS, there is no single play that will bring him back to “Even”. It’s better to let that lane bleed and try to impact the rest of the map.

Hard Losing Lanes

If you play towards a lane that is too far gone, there are 3 outcomes (none of them good):

1) You kill the enemy laner, but that lane is still “Losing”.

2) The enemy laner gets away, and their jungler gets a green light on the rest of the map, you’ve wasted your time.

3) Enemy laner double kills you or you get counter-ganked and lose the 2v2. Now two of you are behind instead of just one.

Winning Lanes

On the other hand, a lane that is “Winning” by 4+ kills really doesn’t need your attention. Even if they die (which is unlikely), they will still be “Ahead”. If the enemy jungler ganks them, they can likely 1v2 or at least trade kills. Your time is better spent trying to move your other lanes from “Even” to “Winning” or from “Losing” to “Even”.

If you spend too much time on a lane that is already winning, the enemy jungler can potentially turn both of the other lanes in their favor. Then the advantage you have in one lane is likely not enough to win the game.

This is a basic concept and doesn’t take into account some other factors like scaling,cooldowns, item spikes, etc. But I think it’s a good starting point for a lot of junglers who aren’t sure how to spend their time and resources!

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