League Of Legends

Jungling:

Champion plays a huge part of how you should jungle. A champ like Xin is meant to be a "carry" jungler, which means ganking more than farming. Xin's clear time isn't as fast as some other junglers but he's a monster at ganking and securing kills. Jarvan and Vi would also be considered more of a "carry". You get your gold more from kills and assists. You still clear monster camps as much as possible but you should be applying lane pressure very often. Xin, Jarvan & Vi are outliers in that they are carries whereas most other junglers are meant to just get tanky and feed kills to the lanes. As a "jungle carry" you actually want the kills for yourself.

When jungling you should expect to acquire the same amount of gold as your support and be around the same level as your bottom lane. You'll never keep up with the solo laners unless you are getting the kills.

Runes:
Every champion has their unique needs but I'd say for the vast majority of junglers you will want something similar to this:
Attack Speed Marks (+15% attack speed)
Movement Speed Quints (+4.5% movespeed)
Flat Armor Seals (+12.7 armor)
Magic Resist per Level Glyphs (+24 magic resist at level 18)

Attack Speed helps clear camps faster and has synergy with some jungler's abilities such as Vi's W as well as some others.
Move Speed helps with ganks, chasing down foes and getting through the jungle faster.
Flat Armor helps you vs the jungle camps, flat armor is better for the early benefits vs jungle monsters.
Magic resist isn't necessary vs jungle camps so the mr per level will help you out going into late game vs the AP carries.

Masteries:
So many options here, all depends on your goal for the game and what you expect to do. Most of the time I'll do either 0-21-9 or 9-21-0.


The game:
The vast majority of the time I start wolves-->Blue. Even champions that can't benefit from blue, I'll start blue for a couple reasons. 1.) So that I get the assistance from lanes and can get a proper "smiteless". At lower elo a lot of players won't assist with red as much since it takes longer to get back to lanes. 2.) So that Blue respawns faster and can be given to the mid. 3.) I have the option to counterjungle and gank the enemy jungler at their red or steal their red. If you start red then you usually won't have the option to steal the enemy jungler's buff since the closest will be Blue and it's likely they are starting blue. The benefit to starting red is you know they won't steal your buff, but starting red also means you should gank almost immediately. Red buff is important for ganks. Do not start red if you don't intend to do a level 2 gank.

To be a successful jungler, you need to ward and countergank, as well as applying your own pressure. You do not have to counterjungle, but if you can then you also help gain an advantage. An easy counterjungle tip is to buy at least 1 ward on your first back and place it in the enemy team's blue bush before 7:30. You'll be able to smite-steal or contest the blue upon respawn once you have the vision.

Counterganking is a much-needed skill. Expect the enemy jungler to mostly mirror your movements, when you are at your red, they are likely at theirs. Logically, you will probably gank bottom or mid and the enemy jungler will likely gank top or mid. With that in mind, be a move ahead and instead of trying to gank bottom, perhaps head toward top lane. If you get to the top lane and the enemy jungler isn't there, it's likely they've backed due to low health from monster camps or went bottom to farm wolves. You can use this opportunity to gank top lane, which will be less expected, or you can counterjungle wraiths or golems if they are up. Keep an eye on the enemy jungler and try to stay a move ahead. Counterganking is important because normally what happens is they show their hand first and do not expect you to be there, you will have all the advantage to turn the gank around in your favor.

Practice practice practice.

So Surrender at 20 is hosting a 128 team tournament:http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/2013-ionian-circuit.html

Anyone want to form up a group? Looks like we don't even have to make an official "ranked" team to join. If more than 128 teams sign up they will be randomly selecting the entries.

I haven't played much team stuff or any tournaments but this one seems casual enough that I would be interested in trying it. My play times vary but mostly can schedule to play after 5pm EST, ideally the team should be able to play the same times. Quarterfinals-->Finals will all take place at 10pm EST in July. Prior to the quarterfinals we simply setup the matches with the opposing teams ourselves and email in a victory screenshot if we win.

We can have as many subs as we want.

Sign-ups are May 18th to May 22nd.

Prizes aren't anything special (other than the ryze skin):
1st place: $20 RP + Triumphant Ryze per player
2nd place: $15 RP per player
3rd place: $10 RP per player
4th place: $5 RP per player

I'll try to organize this if people are interested. Let me know availability you can play, best roles, in-game rank (if any), and if you prefer to be a starter or a sub.

For myself:

Times: After 5:30 pm EST on weekdays. Available most weekends if I have advanced notice
Roles: Mid & Adc
Rank: Silver III
Prefer to be: Starter

Enob_sl said:

They just changed the formulas. I only know this because 3 of the 5 people on my 5's team just got green banners today.

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Yup, I got a green banner yesterday too. I figured they must of changed the formula because my next game had 4 of 5 people with banners. (3 of them were "great leader" and myself had green for "great teammate")


@buffylol: what's your IGN?

Need at least 3 more for tourney group, any extras for subs would be great.

My IGN: So Ravishing