• Triple buff every time you can, it's devastating, and any jungler that plays traditionally is going to instantly panic. Champions like Nunu or Ivern can do this every game no matter what, to avoid counters, buy a pink and a pot instead of 3 pots and put it on the red buff if you're blue side, wolves brush if you're red side. If you really know what you're doing you could even steal Krugs and Raptors on top of just Red to hit level 3 in the enemy jungle.
  
• To counter triple buffing, you have 3 strategies. First is to expect the late invade and invade the opposite buff yourself to get an even start, but slow junglers may still get caught in the process of doing that, you can try the second method then which is to start Raptors (Get regular pots instead of regen pot if they're kicking your rear end too hard). Third is to ward defensively with a pink and sic your laners at the invader but this is unlikely to work in SoloQ.
  
• Steal enemy raptors every single time you can, keep that brush warded, this denies a whole bunch of gold and grants you a very nice deep ward.
  
• Always try to be opposite from the enemy jungler unless you're Graves, Lee Sin or Shaco, in which case you want to duel the enemy jungler basically every time.
  
• If lanes are pushed, counterjungle. If you have no idea where the enemy jungler is, move to the most vulnerable lane and countergank.
  
• Pathing is crucial, particularly with champions like Ivern. Ivern can clear his entire jungle by minute 3 with correct pathing. If you always do the exact same route with the exact same clears every time, you will eat poo poo on the early levels. Learn the best strategies for your champion and for the enemy jungler so that you can predict where they will be every time.
  
• Scuttle is a waste of time if you don't have good single target damage, leave it for when there is an actual threat to the dragon.
  
• Don't gank losing lanes, countergank if all. This will lead to poo poo laners flaming you, ignore them. Your best bet is always to funnel gold towards carries and competent players.
  
• Don't panic on early first bloods or 4 man invades. Don't fight 4 man invades unless you're 5 people. Usually these early roams are very inconsequential, you can prevent them all by warding pixel brush.
  
• Learn to towerdive if your lanes are pushed too far in. The general strategy varies depending if you're stronger or weaker than your laner, but generally what you do is throw your full rotation at the enemy ganker, stand at the edge of the turret range, take 2 tower shots, then back off. It should be more than sufficient time for your laner to finish the enemy off.
  
• Camping bot or top is actually suboptimal. The higher you go the likelyhood of someone actually ragequtting after just a couple ganks is reduced and the risk of counterganking increases the higher your elo is. If you're going to camp, camp a side of the map, not just a lane.
  

voodoo dog fucked around with this message at 13:31 on May 4, 2017

pog boyfriend fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 4, 2017