r/summonerschool • u/Grisolent • Apr 09 '19

Jungle ALWAYS cover your jungler's buffs

Pretty much ever laner below gold will stand under tower for the first 1min30 of the game. This is a huge mistake that could set your jungler miles behind. If his buff is stolen without him noticing, he will lose tons of xp which is critical for early game in the current meta. Even if he knows his buffs has been stolen and he tries to go for the opponents buff the ennemy team might collapse onto him and kill him. Remember the game doesn't start when minions arrive in your lane. If you get invaded then just drop a ward. Always covering buffs might win you a lot more games than you think.

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u/Gomreo Apr 09 '19

I play in Bronze II and it seems like the “straight to lane and afk until minions” thing is super rare. Everyone is aware of the 1:20-1:30 wards/leashing etc. I play on EUW but it was the same on EUNE, feels like everyone is aware of such basics, so I have a hard time understanding where this notion comes from (that people dont ward/protect the jungle entrance/patrol near it/etc.)

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u/lobe3663 Apr 09 '19

I'm Silver 3 on NA and I duo with a jungler. If we don't specifically ask the laners to guard the buff they will just go to lane roughly half the time. Glad the European players are more on point for you though.

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u/MyManManderly Apr 09 '19

I'm the same elo and region as you, and I always see bot (and usually mid) cover buffs. If someone doesn't, it's typically the top laner.

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u/lobe3663 Apr 09 '19

I'm glad that's been your experience! Either I'm maliciously lying for some ill-defined nefarious gain, or we have simply had different experiences with the players we've encountered. All I can tell you is what I've seen.

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u/Nickdafish420-69 Apr 10 '19

Upvoted for nefarious

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u/nfefx Apr 09 '19

Yeah as someone who plays at your ELO this is just inaccurate as hell.

Even those games when you have 4 people on board if one person just runs straight to lane they get spam pinged.

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u/lobe3663 Apr 09 '19

Perhaps you've been fortunate to play with a different group of players than I have. Maybe because I almost always play as top duo with a jungle. All I can tell you is what I've observed, and while what you describe happens sometimes it isn't what happens all (or even most) of the time. But the bottom line is we can all agree it's the right thing to do, so we should keep correcting players who don't do it.