Favourite jungle champion and why

[Natsuhiboshi]

Hey everyone

Just a general question out there for anyone to answer, I am new to LoL and haven't jungled yet so i am also looking for information on Champions to try

so basically what is your favorite Champion for jungle?
the champions Pros/cons
and why do you enjoy this champion so much

[ElfinHilon10]

Shaco. Boxes and Deceiving. SO much fun.

[Natsuhiboshi]

Shaco. Boxes and Deceiving. SO much fun.

Hahah yeah Shaco is just fun in general! does he do well as a jungle? i could imagine his Decieve/Red buff ganks would work quite well.

[nbm02ss]

Hahah yeah Shaco is just fun in general! does he do well as a jungle? i could imagine his Decieve/Red buff ganks would work quite well.

He's easy to counter if your team doesn't derp and let him get a lvl 2 gank off. Also, in draft and ranked he's banned pretty much all the time.

Hmmm, I have several favs, but my best is Trundle. Pillar OP.

[Lyriok]

I would have to go with Shyvana, Love everything about her especially having no resource (Besides fury)

Plus it can be fun randomly jumping onto a target out of nowhere in dragon form just for teh lulz.

[Zeoni]

Udyr. He's borderline overpowered (some may consider him top tier jungle)

-Amazing sustain
-Great ganks
-Tons of survivability
-Very easy to play

He has everything, damage and survivability. The only thing that I don't like but would make him over the top is his lack of a ranged type ability. You're almost always guaranteed to get a kill if a lane is pushed over halfway early too. Late game swapping stuns onto their ad carry and ap with bear stance. Overall, he's an above average champion with a relatively low learning curve.

[ZerOKami]

First and foremost Shyvana. I despise mana-users that are not mages so she fits perfectly. She also has godly clear times which I love a lot. Also, she can't commit to stupid ganks early game, your team knows this so they're forced to play well. When she can do intelligent ganks, she does it very well, the one thing giving me trouble is giving the kills to the laners, but it works out in the end. One Frozen Mallet, Wit's End and a Guardian Angel later, we push endlessly to the nexus and we win, with me leading the charge as a dragon. That unstoppable feeling is someting that I have yet to find on any other champion.

And then comes Riven, the opposite of Shyvana. Early game ganks, dominance and snowballing. But I find her to be much much MUCH more risk-reward than Shyvana, who is a very safe pick. Riven jungle is easy to get an advantage but very hard to keep it. You have to keep your momentum throughout the game and that becomes hard, especially when teamfights start to occur. But, if Riven's team wins 1 or 2 teamfights then it's a sure win.

Other junglers I have:
Darius: He mana-starves. FAST. I hate mana champions without mana runes and items. Also his ganks may be strong but if you don't feed the laner the kills you're going to suffer late game. Meh.

Jax: Haven't jungled him in a PVP game, but he clears fast, his ganks are strong and he doesn't run out of mana fast. I could get to like him, just need to find a good way to build him for each situation, because the jungler's income is somewhat clunky and can't build gunblade and triforce in a real game.

Kayle: Like Jax, her mana is somewhat good as long as you don't spam anything more than E you'd be golden, and she clears really fast with it. Lots of potential, but seems a little lackluster idk why.

Master Yi: No. First champion I bought and I don't like him at all.

Nocturne: Just bought him on the sale, haven't tried him in PVP but he looks like he might become my go-to ganking jungler, altough the mana issue is still there. He clears fast nevertheless. But, as nocturne, I could always use the other team's Blue :3

Renekton: He isn't a standard jungler and I can't see why. Just because his E is bugged with the Fog of War is not a good reason not to jungle him. He clears fast, sustains well, has STRONG ganks, can tower dive early, doesn't need a lot of items to be strong bar late game (Can just build 2 doran>Brutalizer early, sell Brutalizer for LW late). Seriously worth trying in the jungle.

Tryndamere: Like a mana-less Darius. Entertaining, yet I feel that I'm not playing Tryndamere well just by pressing W and right clicking. Awkward. But, I like him nevertheless.

Warwick: Mana hungry, clears so-so, ganks worse than Riven, Renekton or Nocturne or everyone that has snare or CC with less than a minute CD. Good starting jungler, but please grow out of it.

Tried Shaco, didn't like him (don't like gank-all junglers too much), tried Udyr, didn't connect with him. Altough he uses mana, he doesn't need anything other than Phoenix for fast clears, so that's pretty good. I want to try Lee Sin as soon as I can :/ Also Mundo, but he's ugly.

[Deleted]

I would have to say Irelia, she seems to have a pretty decent clearing time, lots of sustain with her hiten style, dashes, stuns/slows, and a spammable ult. I also like lots and lots of other champions to jungle with, the only problem I have with lots of them is that they have so little sustain that it becomes unenjoyable to jungle, like for instance Pantheon with his low base mana and regen.
I also really, really, really like Jungleplank, once he hits level 6, you're garen-teed to get 5 million assists in the next couple of minutes.

[Duilliath]

Trundle. Dey see me trollin'.

[Duronos]

For me it's Nunu and Mundo just because those kind of junglers which are bit tankier and can take hits as well as slow people down quite easily are my types. Nunu has an easy time clearing camps, Mundo's kind of gets the mix but isn't comparable to Nunu in the early game of camp clearing. Either way you may hate it but I love Nunu jungle.


EDIT: Recently tried Trundle and like him quite a bit too, that stone boner is something.

[NotValidAnymore]

For me, it's two:

Udyr, because he's badass, though borderline OP damage without items. His only problem, which you notice a lot, is that he lacks a gap-closer and has no ranged abilities, so his ganks are pretty dependent on the other team pushing too hard so you can get into Bear Stance and stun their face. Still, I've pulled off awesome things with him, tanked several people alone (and won), and he's just overall badass.

Jarvan IV is also one I like a lot. He's a really underestimated champion. He's versatile, can tank well, does decent damage and is just overall fun to me.

[Boomcats]

Big Poppa pump, Nautilus. Getting your swell on in the jungle, having shitty levels 1-3- but after completely dominating due to him having more CC then some entire team comps.

Yeah I have a hook, and a slow, and if I autoattack you it will snare you, also I have an Ult that hunts you down and murders you.

I'm surprised he isn't brought up more on these forums, he was picked or banned in quite a few games in MLG. Oddone played him so well.

[petsoul]

Darius.

While playing at top lane, mid lane and bot lane all at once. Cus Darius can do that.

What he can't do however is spinspin. i think he needs a boost.

[Kazzyku]

I'm not too good at jungling, it's probably my weakest role. So as a beginner, I started with Warwick. Warwick is probably the "safest" jungler with his self-healing. Also, people don't expect you to babysit them at level 2 like you'll be expected to with Shaco, Lee Sin or even Shyvana. Warwick has great ganks at level 6 with his Ult.

The problem with learning to jungle with someone like Shyvana or Udyr is that they clear very, very, VERY quickly. If you start with those junglers then move on to a slower jungler (WW, Maokai, Amumu etc) it'll be darn-near painful to clear your jungle much less babysit the lanes.

This guide helped me with learning to jungle: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=334473

So my picks are Warwick and Udyr. I've had both easily carry my team to a victory.

[ddsad2212]

Udry, Never played bad with him yet, i think at most i have had 3 deaths in one match? And i can always force kill if my team need them. Also i love the reaction of people when i have a ward on one side of a wall and i just flash over the wall in bear stance and take them out, they always make silly mistakes from the shock

[Smoshreptar]

I have been really into Shyvana lately(since the free week recently) Her amazing gap closer ult and fast run speed from W/Ghost are so much fun. I also enjoy jungling Udyr for fast clear times and amazing early damage output.

I'll have to try Riven, she is my go-to-gal for solo-top. I don't think I own any other champs that can jungle effectively (I tend to play solo lane or support more often than I jungle)

[Isrozzis]

I'm really liking j4 right now. His jungle speed is kind of slow, but his ganks are godly. At level two he has a distance closer that also knocks people up. Combined with his passive, you get a really nice front load of damage when you come to gank. Of course it depends a lot on the lane you are ganking but it's fairly easy to get first blood.

My only gripe about him, is his ultimate. It's one of the best ultimates in my opinion, but it is buggy and can be super frustrating. You can either lock your team out of it on accident, or you can lock squishes in it on accident. Or you can ult and watch about half their team just jump over it with some various ability. Did I mention it's buggy? I've been condemned through it, I've condemned into it (and stunned), I've had people run through it and some other weird things. If used correctly it is pretty awesome, but some weird things happen sometimes.

And lee sin is my second favorite jungler. I've jungled the most on him, but he's falling out of favor for more cc oriented tanky junglers.

[Axethor]

Skarner, Skarner, Skarner, Skarner, and Skarner.

One of the fastest clears, good duelist, pre-6 ganks are great, and post-6 are free kills unless your laner is sleeping. He also deals good damage while staying really tanky late game. His counter jungling potential is only matched by Shyv and Mundo. Yes, he is better than Udyr at counter jungling camps, but Udyr is a better duelist if you get caught.

His ult can make or break a fight when used correctly. Ult the enemy carry, drag him into your team, and blow him the fuck up. His shield also makes him a great initiator since he can take decent damage before his health is even touched.

[Deleted]

Udyr. He's borderline overpowered (some may consider him top tier jungle)

-Amazing sustain
-Great ganks
-Tons of survivability
-Very easy to play

He has everything, damage and survivability. The only thing that I don't like but would make him over the top is his lack of a ranged type ability. You're almost always guaranteed to get a kill if a lane is pushed over halfway early too. Late game swapping stuns onto their ad carry and ap with bear stance. Overall, he's an above average champion with a relatively low learning curve.

I agree that Udyr is a great jungler, he's my favorite. But his ganks aren't great, it's actually his weakest point. He relies on that the laner he's ganking with has a CC ready, because just one bear stun isn't enough usually. He has no gap closers and ranged abilities either, so he can't do crap if the enemy has some distance.

[Deleted]

I would have to go with Shyvana, Love everything about her especially having no resource (Besides fury)

Plus it can be fun randomly jumping onto a target out of nowhere in dragon form just for teh lulz.

Reverse turret dive! Go behind the enemy turret and dragonform them out of it, towards the awaiting ahri with charm. Doesnt get old. They never see it coming...

Shyvana aside, Nocturne is a really fun jungler. Being able to bypass wards with your ulti at times is a nice plus