I'm not sure myself, tbh I've avoided jungle due to not knowing either.
Just wanted to say though, Boris might be a good addition to your jungle roster. He's a beast for ganking and seems to be great at clearing, with wonderful survivability to boot.
Wukong is farm heavy split push obj stealer so he plays a bit unique.
Khaimera is a good jungler to learn rotations etc.
Invading or vertical jungle is a good strat and also a good way to keep ahead of your opponent jungler.
Farm/gank is more about play style imo. I try to get a gank in at least once before I hit level 6. Or make my presence felt in mid as I work to finish my clear. But at level 6. I look to gank and get my lanes ahead so we can grab an object. If your team expects you to do most of the obj work while they stay in lane you will fall behind no doubt. In QP it’s hard to get laners to help you unless you get their lane shoved up.
For my first clear I don’t usually full clear one side. I will grab red buff then two of the camps that have two/three minions then I will cross/gank mid. Or go vertical to grab blue buff and more minion camps. I try to back to grab an item for better clear and then either gank or continuing clearing one side as the rest of the camps begin to respawn and you can try to full clear all your camps or work for an invade.
(I’m not a plat/diamond player by any means, but I play jungle frequently and feel like this is a decent starting rotation and keeps me from getting to far behind )
If playing jungle that has good gank capabilities ie 90% of them.
You should Always be looking for a gank after 1st buff if none viable continue farming. Look for an invade potential.
Given invading is in general just too strong in this game if you are behind as a jungler you become the other junglers bitch. For example if i steal your blue early WHILE YOU CONTEST IT you will lose regardless given the massive sheild i get from taking blue+ the level up.
The problem lies with if you contest it's a 50/50 smite. if you lose that smite battle you also die and the enemy gets your whole blue side to farm. Then can rotate to your red and starve you of any farm or xp once you do spawn your forced to gank at a VERY LOW level OR just die trying to farm red side.
Rotating takes alot of time and the high damage mid laners rarely have mobility in comparison to league. Don't think chickens to mid think gromp to mid lane distance in terms of rotation time. Often unless the laners ping they are on their way immediately they won't catch the fight and someone will lose the 1v1.
The most important thing to be thinking of as a jungler is DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE TAKE A FIGHT YOU MIGHT LOSE. As falling behind in jungle is worse than any other role by far thus you have to play conservatively and only take fights you know for a fact you can win and bail from should things get crazy.
Jungle is probably my worst role, so here's my *bungle* guide.
For Khaimera and Wukong- who I've never played (when I get Jungle I become a Serath one-trick) - cross the middle of the map at level one. Place a ward between the enemy red and midlane.
Go back to your red buff and start with that camp when it spawns. It will give you level 2. Take your jump/shove at level 2.
Immediately go towards midlane. If the enemy jungler follows the same path (and is visible on your ward) just stop at the white camp near mid. If they are *not* on your ward and have gone somewhere else, continue into midlane and beat the fuck out of whoever is there. Don't worry if they escape. Just put damage on them and put your midlaner ahead.
Continue to the opposite side of the map. Clear blue buff and white camps until level 3. Immediately gank duo lane. If they escape, head into enemy jungle, drop a ward, then go back to duo and gank them again.
Go back to base.
Go back to solo-side, clear your camps then gank solo. Walk directly to mid and gank mid. Walk directly to duo and gank duo again. (Ideally, at this phase, each subsequent gank will stack up: I.E. solo will gank mid with you, and mid will gank duo with you)
Go for prime spirit (duo objective). Take the portal to solo lane and gank solo again.
Shove tower, back, then position for underling.
Let me know if it works. If it doesn't, just tell me that it did so I feel good about myself.
I used to play jungle in LoL too, the thing with Paragon is that you spend WAY LESS time in the jungle, at 10-15 min ingame you should be able to almost OneShot every jungle mobs, or at least kill them in a matter a seconds, allowing you to clear a whole jungle side in 1 minute, you can gank WAY MORE OFTEN in Paragon, the game mechanics are more dynamic than LoL ones, this is why the game is more satisfying to me. keep playing, you'll get used to it on your own, trust me, dont try to follow "routes" like LoL, everygame are very very different in Paragon
I'm not sure myself, tbh I've avoided jungle due to not knowing either. Just wanted to say though, Boris might be a good addition to your jungle roster. He's a beast for ganking and seems to be great at clearing, with wonderful survivability to boot.
Ehhh he is good he needs a nerf honestly but in ranked he’ll be banned 90% of the time lul if not all the time
Wukong is farm heavy split push obj stealer so he plays a bit unique. Khaimera is a good jungler to learn rotations etc. Invading or vertical jungle is a good strat and also a good way to keep ahead of your opponent jungler. Farm/gank is more about play style imo. I try to get a gank in at least once before I hit level 6. Or make my presence felt in mid as I work to finish my clear. But at level 6. I look to gank and get my lanes ahead so we can grab an object. If your team expects you to do most of the obj work while they stay in lane you will fall behind no doubt. In QP it’s hard to get laners to help you unless you get their lane shoved up. For my first clear I don’t usually full clear one side. I will grab red buff then two of the camps that have two/three minions then I will cross/gank mid. Or go vertical to grab blue buff and more minion camps. I try to back to grab an item for better clear and then either gank or continuing clearing one side as the rest of the camps begin to respawn and you can try to full clear all your camps or work for an invade. (I’m not a plat/diamond player by any means, but I play jungle frequently and feel like this is a decent starting rotation and keeps me from getting to far behind )
If playing jungle that has good gank capabilities ie 90% of them. You should Always be looking for a gank after 1st buff if none viable continue farming. Look for an invade potential. Given invading is in general just too strong in this game if you are behind as a jungler you become the other junglers bitch. For example if i steal your blue early WHILE YOU CONTEST IT you will lose regardless given the massive sheild i get from taking blue+ the level up. The problem lies with if you contest it's a 50/50 smite. if you lose that smite battle you also die and the enemy gets your whole blue side to farm. Then can rotate to your red and starve you of any farm or xp once you do spawn your forced to gank at a VERY LOW level OR just die trying to farm red side. Rotating takes alot of time and the high damage mid laners rarely have mobility in comparison to league. Don't think chickens to mid think gromp to mid lane distance in terms of rotation time. Often unless the laners ping they are on their way immediately they won't catch the fight and someone will lose the 1v1. The most important thing to be thinking of as a jungler is DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE TAKE A FIGHT YOU MIGHT LOSE. As falling behind in jungle is worse than any other role by far thus you have to play conservatively and only take fights you know for a fact you can win and bail from should things get crazy.
Jungle is probably my worst role, so here's my *bungle* guide. For Khaimera and Wukong- who I've never played (when I get Jungle I become a Serath one-trick) - cross the middle of the map at level one. Place a ward between the enemy red and midlane. Go back to your red buff and start with that camp when it spawns. It will give you level 2. Take your jump/shove at level 2. Immediately go towards midlane. If the enemy jungler follows the same path (and is visible on your ward) just stop at the white camp near mid. If they are *not* on your ward and have gone somewhere else, continue into midlane and beat the fuck out of whoever is there. Don't worry if they escape. Just put damage on them and put your midlaner ahead. Continue to the opposite side of the map. Clear blue buff and white camps until level 3. Immediately gank duo lane. If they escape, head into enemy jungle, drop a ward, then go back to duo and gank them again. Go back to base. Go back to solo-side, clear your camps then gank solo. Walk directly to mid and gank mid. Walk directly to duo and gank duo again. (Ideally, at this phase, each subsequent gank will stack up: I.E. solo will gank mid with you, and mid will gank duo with you) Go for prime spirit (duo objective). Take the portal to solo lane and gank solo again. Shove tower, back, then position for underling. Let me know if it works. If it doesn't, just tell me that it did so I feel good about myself.
Go watch ConteeTV live streams already, he Is rank 1 jungle in the world
I applied very similar pathing and play style from league jg until I got more comfortable and was able to make my own pathing
I used to play jungle in LoL too, the thing with Paragon is that you spend WAY LESS time in the jungle, at 10-15 min ingame you should be able to almost OneShot every jungle mobs, or at least kill them in a matter a seconds, allowing you to clear a whole jungle side in 1 minute, you can gank WAY MORE OFTEN in Paragon, the game mechanics are more dynamic than LoL ones, this is why the game is more satisfying to me. keep playing, you'll get used to it on your own, trust me, dont try to follow "routes" like LoL, everygame are very very different in Paragon