In League of Legends, the jungle role controls the pace of the early game.
In competitive, it's no different, but for a spectator, it can be hard to recognize all
the little things a jungler is doing and how impactful his early actions are.
For roles like mid or top, one can look at experience or CS leads to judge performance.
For jungle, the intricacies of the role make it hard to figure out who is actually impacting
the game and who looks good simply because their laners are doing well by themselves.
One hallmark of a good jungler is his pathing: how he decides on what camps to clear and
in what order, and it isn't always about maximizing experience efficiency.
A good jungler will adapt his jungle route depending on a number of factors, such as
the strength of the jungle matchup, which lanes he needs to get rolling or help support,
and predicting where the enemy team will focus.
Knowing how to best gank a lane, how to avoid common ward spots,
and how lane matchups play out is also super important.
Last but not least, they need to have the raw mechanical skill to fully utilize the
full potential of their champion.
Everything is connected, which is why good junglers are rare and highly coveted.
Team EnVyUs's LirA is considered by many as one of the best junglers in North America,
but aside from being a very strong mechanical player, what makes him so special?
NV is number one in the league in gold@15, and it's partly because LirA works intelligently
to give his team advantages in the early game.
His synergy with Hakuho makes for strong early game vision, but more importantly, LirA is
constantly adjusting his pathing based on his lanes and opponents.
He's unpredictable and dangerously aware, and to see why, let's pull apart his play
in Week 6 of the NA LCS.
In Game 1 of C9 vs NV, LirA had to play Gragas against Contractz's Elise, a matchup that
favors the Spider Queen.
Elise has the damage to burst Gragas down, can reliably stun him if he tries to engage
with body slam, and can dodge barrels with rappel.
If Gragas ever meets Elise in the jungle by himself, he's going to have a bad time.
So, LirA needs to play this match up cautiously to ensure he doesn't get invaded and fall
behind.
If NV can get through the early game on equal footing, Gragas will naturally be a bigger
threat than Elise in teamfights.
In this game, Cloud9 wants to get Renekton ahead.
He has a favorable matchup against Shen and can snowball easily when ahead--not to mention
that, between Elise and Renekton, there's plenty of crowd control and damage to go for
a tower dive and get out unscathed.
NV knows this and adapts accordingly for it.
At the start, Seraph places a very late ward at Cloud9's blue buff and LirA chooses to
start his jungle clear from bot to top.
At 2:10, the ward spots Contractz doing his blue, which gives away the impending topside
aggression: Contractz will either invade NV's red or gank top.
Meanwhile, LirA also makes it to the top side of the jungle.
Instead of directly going to his red, he wards it and does his raptors first.
LirA is adapting his clear because of the potential invade coming from Contractz.
By doing raptors first, he can hit level 3 and be better prepared against Elise's invade.
However, neither he nor the ward ends up spotting Contractz, so NV knows that the top lane gank
is likely C9's play.
Sure enough, Contractz attempts to dive Shen, but safe positioning and a good flash by Seraph
stops the play.
LirA also shows up to prevent any further aggression.
Shen is now safe.
The next series of events showcases one of the most important qualities of a good jungler:
the ability to track the whereabouts of your enemy.
When Contractz attempted the dive, he showed himself to EnVy and thus revealed his CS numbers.
Knowing your enemy jungler's CS allows you to pretty reliably guess which camps he's
done, and predict accordingly where he'll go next.
After the dive, Contractz leaves vision with 15 CS.
LirA knows that Contractz stole some of his krugs, as he saw the 2 minis still up.
Contractz was also seen with both red and blue buff, plus he ganked top lane relatively
early.
The timing and CS numbers allow NV to deduce that he had cleared both red and blue buff,
most of the NV's krugs, and also 5 of his small raptors.
Equipped with this information, NV knows that the next camps Contractz will likely be clearing
are his Gromp and Wolves.
NA, likely LirA himself, pings them and starts setting up for a countermove.
A good jungler can figure out where the enemy is, but a great jungler will take advantage
of that information.
And of course, part of that is coordinating with the rest of the team.
This is a team game after all.
With Contractz on the top side of the map, Apollo and Hakuho quickly push in the bot
lane, using Xayah's AoE feather mechanic and her attack speed steroid, and freely roam
into the enemy jungle to place down vision.
They also take out the blast cone and use the Scryer's Bloom to scout out any additional
information.
From this point onward, both the bot lane duo and also Nisqy, who also has lane priority
in his matchup against Corki, continue to push their lanes.
This plus the vision setup earlier allows LirA to confidently move into Contractz's
bot jungle to ward and even turns the matchup on its head: he is able to become the aggressor
and steal camps from his opponent.
With the ward placed earlier by Hakuho, he spots Contractz at krugs, body slams in to
steal them, and then gets out with a Thresh lantern.
This may not seem like much, but the early experience is crucial.
But that's not all that results from this setup.
You can see that, as the game plays out, LirA has constant vision of the raptor bush because
of the ward he was able to place from the earlier invade.
That ward eventually spots Contractz heading for his red.
With help from Nisqy, LirA casually steals away the red, takes his raptors as well, and
ends up hitting level 6 first.
Finally, he is then able to find an opening to gank bot lane and grab first blood for
NV.
In this one game, LirA showed why he's so highly praised.
He understood his losing jungle matchup, knew where Contractz was likely to focus, and pathed
accordingly.
He, along with the rest of Envy, took advantage of Contractz's path using lane pressure,
vision, and CS tracking.
From there, LirA played around his winning lanes, invading Cloud9's bot side jungle.
All in all, it resulted in an EXP lead, stronger map pressure, and even first blood... in what
was supposed to be a losing jungle matchup.
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