Xmithie Teaches Pro Competitive Jungling
Xmithie
Ranked Jungling
Lesson 3
Xmithie offers his advice on climbing the ranked ladder as a jungler, exploring topics such as:
How jungling in solo/duo queue differs from competitive environments
The importance of having an early game impact for a jungler in ranked play
How to optimize your champion pool for ranked
Ways to think about balancing farm vs. ganking and being as efficient as possible
What Xmithie has noticed that differentiates lower level players from higher level players
Aimlabs Challenge
In this lesson, Xmithie highlighted his own habit of analyzing pro play and even other regions for small improvements he can implement into his own gameplay. For this challenge, look up a recent professional match involving at least 1 jungler you play and take notes about what that player did at various stages of the game. Your notes could be things like their jungle pathing, gank timings, itemization, back timings, and everything in-between. Consider implementing any of these findings into your own jungling.
Lessons
Xmithie talks about how he started his professional career and touches on:
How the game evolved through time and how the pro scene changed
His first experience coming into a big stage
His qualification to the first LCS ever
How his family supported him and how important it was to him
Xmithie breaks down core Jungle concepts including:
Jungle Champion archetypes and their goals
How to analyze lane states to help you “predict the future”
The importance of practicing and optimizing your Jungle clear
What to look at on the map to help you keep tabs on the enemy Jungler
The importance of warning your teammates of incoming gank windows
Xmithie offers his advice on climbing the ranked ladder as a jungler, exploring topics such as:
How jungling in solo/duo queue differs from competitive environments
The importance of having an early game impact for a jungler in ranked play
How to optimize your champion pool for ranked
Ways to think about balancing farm vs. ganking and being as efficient as possible
What Xmithie has noticed that differentiates lower level players from higher level players
Xmithie breaks down important Jungle factors during the early game such as:
Level 1 strategies and how to decide your end goal with pathing
How draft and in-game lane pressure should affect your decision making
When and how to counter gank to keep your laners safe
Understanding the difference in farming vs ganking Jungle champions
Xmithie teaches you how to apply pressure in the top lane by helping you:
Learn different and less predictable gank paths
Recognize the most commonly warded areas of the map and lanes
How to control vision and track the enemy jungler to help your top laner avoid ganks
Understand the importance of avoiding vision when ganking
With 4 champions on a single lane there are higher risks and rewards. In this segment, Xmithie teaches you about different ways of getting your bot lane ahead with:
Teaching you different ways of creating ganks to Bot lane
Helping out your bot lane to recognize dangerous situations
Shadowing your Bot lane to keep them safe
Xmithie reveals his approach to ganking mid lane, including:
Some of the most common Mid lane mistakes and how to abuse them
How to control a certain side of the map with the pressure of your Mid laner
How to avoid getting spotted by wards and the most common Mid lane ward spots
Xmithie teaches you how to transition from your mid game to the late game by:
Getting vision control of the map
Helping you understand the importance of Jungle/Support synergy
Teaching you how to pick off key members of the enemy team
Punish enemy laners by recognizing when they’re overextended
Denying enemy Jungle camps by tracking enemy champions and pressuring your stronger areas of the map
Xmithie discusses different ways to help you control and secure objectives by:
Teaching you the values of creating proper vision control around objectives
Helping you understand how important it is to respect enemy vision during key windows
Highlighting when to give up hopelessly lost objectives in favor of creating plays on other parts of the map
Explaining how to create key picks on enemy champions before objectives
Xmithie breaks down core concepts such as:
Understanding your champions playstyle and knowing when to teamfight
How to keep track of enemies and how to protect your teammates
The importance of adapting to your win conditions
Xmithie discusses the importance of being a leader and teaches you about:
His experience leading top teams in the LCS and at Worlds
How good communication can dramatically impact teams in competitive play
Different ways you can work with your team during your own games
Xmithie discusses the mentality that allowed him to excel in pro play, including topics such as:
The importance of constantly trying to improve and critiquing his own plays whenever possible
What kind of mistakes to look for in solo queue and competitive environments
The value of analyzing your own games and VODs
Being openminded to outside perspectives and being willing to implement them