Ablu2 wrote:And just had my first successful jungling match. Was Shyvana, and none of my lanes really needed ganks that badly. My friend Fizz was playing against a passive anivia, my bot lane was pushed to their tower but not in a bad way, and olaf top was a boss. But I ganked Olaf because he was in a gankable spot and we got a kill, and we eventually won the match, even though the enemy team was built around harassing and AOE. Nidalee, anivia, gankplank, nunu, and twitch on their team.
Shyvana feels natural to me, but I need to get better with her ult. When to use it, how to use it, etc. Although getting better at her ult will require me to get better at certain things overall.
I'll just tell you right now. If you want to play Shyvana, you have to learn how to counter-jungle. Her ganks are mediocre but she kills jungle camps so fast that you will always have an abundance of free time. Moreover, she's a terrifying duelist who can beat most other junglers in a straight up fight in the unlikely event that neither party has an advantage. What this amounts to is a champion who is likely to have far less influence over the lanes than most others, but
far more over the opposing jungler.
Just today, I played a game as Shyvana and did "the usual". I started with boots, a ward, and a health potion, took my wolves, and went to the enemy wraiths and took three of the four. I held onto smite and dropped my ward in the enemy red buff bush and went for our wraiths. Shortly after I finished clearing them, the enemy Twitch jungler showed up on my minimap, so I hauled booty over there and stole the buff with smite. Because it was Twitch and his jungling is already incredibly dangerous, he was low on health and I killed him with little effort... though I could have just run away if he had been a harder target like Lee Sin or something.
As you might imagine, losing out on the experience and gold from red buff, having no buff to gank with (and man is Twitch ever gank dependent), and having been dead even for a short while to further delay his farming, left Twitch in a pretty miserable state. I walked all over him, all game, and he ended it 0/6/0 without ever picking up a red buff from his own jungle for the entire 21 minutes before his team surrendered. Every time he would enter a lane to gank, he had to do so without a level advantage, buffs, or items, and as evidenced by his score, I pretty much made him feed my lanes for me because he had nothing else to do
but gank. He was too terrified of me to ever set foot in my jungle even with stealth backing him up, or at the very least, he never once stole one of my camps and I never caught him trying.
You want to be a dragon? Remember that dragons are greedy; own both jungles and don't settle for less. Drop wards in the enemy one so you can come in and kill them where they think it's safe. It's a ruthless business, but you won't get results by sticking to your own territory and threatening the enemy with your weak ganks alone.
Ignorance is not the same as innocence.
