The ONLY Ganking Guide You'll EVER NEED - League of Legends

[@skillcapped]

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[@Blue_Moon_Cannabis]

good stuff, thx

[@technofreak39]

1. Dont show yourself too easily 2. Prefer Lanes with CC or high dmg (except when gank is free obv) 3. During Gank: More likely to hit cc first (e.g. point & click cc first, then skillshots) 4. Keep your important skills to maintain pressure (e.g. to follow up dashes/flashes) 5. Get Boots early to catch up quicker 6. Dont force ganks if you have camps up if you feel the gank might fail

[@ghibli5111]

Boots tip is kinda BS. It can be useful but it can be valuable to have more DPS too. Indeed, the most popular 2nd tree rune is the inspiration tree, more precisely cosmic insight and the "free" and faster boots at min 12.

[@xdboy66]

Always buying boots early is a really horrible thing to do. I can't believe they'd add something like that.

[@ThatBoyTrife]

@@xdboy66 Except they specifically said that it's only a viable option if you have a lot of gankable lanes so you know you will prioritize ganking during the early game, otherwise just build towards your first item. They even said this in the Graves example, he didn't mess up when he didn't build T2 boots, he built correctly because he didn't have gankable lanes, he messed up because he prioritized ganking over farming while having no boots and no hard cc.

[@lyb-samouri2314]

What is cc?

[@flixuspetronus3714]

@@lyb-samouri2314 crowd control (stuns, roots etc)

[@unentirelyinsincere]

I used to play on autopilot, and feed shitload of games and get flamed for not ganking as elise. Now that i watched and learned from skillcapped, i now can only play 3-4 games a day cuz my brain overheats and i get stressed. However the quality of my play definitely improved cuz i hit gold 2 in kr server. Thanks skillcapped i watch u guys and my iq at least doubled i swear

[@kappalhu3574]

Based

[@Chrimzin]

Just recently picked up Elise after being close to an OTP Eve. Elise is easy enough to play, but her macro is crazy hard. I moved to Conqueror and waterwalking runes instead. Just feel way better than Electrocute and the alactrity and Nashor's makes pushing towers and taking objectives way better.

[@Lurchstavo]

Bro I feel this. I’m only silver 2 in na but I climbed out of bronze where my friends can’t. They always ask me why I can’t play like 4+ games straight without a mental break. I’m like I need a break 😂 The amount of concentration is rough and I’m not even good at it yet

[@Lurchstavo]

@@Chrimzin fuck playing eve. I love the champ but my finger is in pain after 2 games. Gott take a Vicodin to play with her. Walking around kiting and spamming q for 30 mins

[@Chrimzin]

@@Lurchstavo lmao that damn Q yeah. Gotto press it it like 8 times a cast even though you only use it 3 (or 4) times a cast.

[@andrebenites9919]

7:50 It is also interesting to talk about hugging the wall of your enemies side, so you can reach it. It is a pretty simple idea that can help someone pick up a succesful gank. In this case, Graves knew the enemy didn't have vision, even so he appears much too soon (hugging the opposite wall of where he should go towards) and the enemy just uses one weak mobility ability and it is already unreachable. If he had taken the time to go towards the enemy side (since he was going to go there anyway while chasing), he would have much better chances to reach. Of course, there is also timing in this play, but I hope I made myself clear about positioning Of course there could be vision in other real scenarios, but while you are advancing, you read the enemies movements... If they are getting back, they have vision, you decide whether you would like to go or not... But many times they don't even react(even with vision), so you need to put yourself in the best position before showing on the map (in this case, reaching around close to their tower) It is so simple and I just remembered I'm not doing this yet. Simply forgot about it

[@loyael]

Yep, sometimes the ennemy will notice and kill your ally before you arrive tho. You can also run into the ennemy jungler more easily and get caught. But overall I have higher success with this method too.

[@Vinitv17]

I bought their course, watched almost all the videos on the site, i got out of Diamond 4 to GrandMaster 711 LP, real good content, every new patch i come back to these guys to refresh some knowledge

[@lamineboutaleb]

What region ?

[@hasanozyer6757]

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[@Vinitv17]

@@lamineboutaleb BR

[@Vinitv17]

@@hasanozyer6757 kkkkkkk that would be great, instead i pay them every month, just look at the content from youtube, if you dont think this is good i am crazy

[@mowgli6345]

I bought their courses, watched all the videos on the site, I'm still hard stuck silver.

[@morosov4595]

7:50 - You can see Fiora ulted Kayle and was about to procede to delete her. Graves knew he is not gonna kill, he just wanted to save her.

[@truonggia6686]

Nah he followed fiora when she already back off out of range, def lookin to gank

[@morosov4595]

@@truonggia6686 He followed since he was already there, but that doesn't change that the gank saved Kayle from dying.

[@truonggia6686]

@@morosov4595 would better if he didnt waste his time chasing the far gone Fiora, he could've just zone a bit and go back to farming, instead he slow walk allll the way to fiora's turret. Whatever his intention is, it's a bad play tbh.

[@truonggia6686]

That play also bait the kayle from backing off and farm minions to get back at fiora, causing him to miss some cs. So there ya go.

[@morosov4595]

@@truonggia6686 I disagree. He harassed her enough to push her out of the lane and the wave is frozen. Yes he missed some farm, but he gave Kayle huge tempo edge, and as we all know you can't say scale without mentioning her name.

[@Yoshirox151515]

Great video but i think the one thing it doesn't cover is ganking angles , i think the graves clip is a perfect example of moving straight at the enemy champion when instead you want to get cutting off where they want to go. There are a lot of situations i see where my junglers also gank mid from the connecting river brush rather than taking the long way round and cutting of the escape angle of my opponents, just stuff like that. Just something i think should be covered in a ganking video :) keep up the good work though!

[@arquimedesvasquez4278]

Questions in these vids always have a funny answer. I mean, it's always like: "look at this situation who do you think will win? The fed yasuo 23/0 or the irelia 1/4" -Me: ofc it'll be Yasuo -SkillCapped: Yes! Good job at paying attention to the close roaming scuttle scarab with the excessive amount of stuns to kill the yasuo barehanded -Me: ah right

[@MrJoseph308]

Could you not argue that Lee sons q is way easier to hit than nami bubble and he has a slow which makes nami bubble easier to hit in that case.

[@chi0224]

He could W ward near draven and E to slow him, then wait for nami to land the bubble, Q1 and keep auto, until draven either flash or dead

[@flolwaq]

@@chi0224 yea i was gonna say the same, nami can e lee on top of that making the slow even better

[@nick09104]

I think the idea is that if Nami throws bubble, it basically guarentees lee sin q because they can't juke into the bubble and have to run in a straight line to dodge it. Lee's q will be free after that, then his team can follow up. I play xerath lux bot a lot and learned how to aim skill shots based on the opponents juking another skill shot, like if lux throws q, I see if they dodge towards the left or the right then throw my w there and they choose to get hit by lux q or my w, either way taking alot of follow up dmg.

[@Ratty524]

But lee q basically gives the enemy way more time to react before the slow hits from the other skill, vs nami Q which immediately stuns on impact.

[@owo4470]

4:03 id argue that ls should be the one going in first, with a ward to be precise. his cripple allows nami to land her bubble ,which in turn allows him to land q more easily.

[@timduncan1422]

I thought the same, but upon thinking about it a bit more. Maybe Nami uses her E to slow their movement speed with her Autos, then bubbles, which would allow Lee Sin a guaranteed Q? Just a thought.

[@bwiblies]

Awesome, informative videos! The strategy in this game tickles a nice part of my brain :)

[@narutimalte]

Timecode: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Ganking is a risk 01:01 Giving your position 01:23 Impact on high elo 01:40 Best lane to gank ? 01:50 Having CC/burst laners + exemple 02:58 Good use of spells + exemples 05:15 Don't rush your ganks ! + exemple 07:15 Movespeed is the key + exemple 08:45 Buy items based on your strategy + exemple 09:31 Conclusion

[@azuma9047]

That graves gank example was awful. He didn't need boots, he needed to path upwards instead of walking down to his side. He also backed off from a lvl 7 fiora without ult or riposte. Just bad gameplay in general.

[@circlebodo991]

u stuck in iron? graves pathing would be even longer if he walked upwards

[@BragginRitesTV]

One thing I have found in gold is that I am unable to rely on my teammates to use their cc effectively. So playing assassin junglers with no cc (Talon, Rengar) will be less effective to climb with and I should instead play other characters with effective cc. I've played in emerald/diamond games in normals and found the difference in ability usage to be vastly different.

[@Shiftry87]

In that Nautilus example maybe it was becouse of how that specific scenario looked but i was going for Taliyah to go first becouse of how close to the wall Kaisa was standing and the angle Taliyah was coming from. Kaisa was so close to that wall that Taliyah could force her to move straight up into Nautilus if she ever wanted to avoid her CC guaranting that Nautilus CC hits. While that was very close to the wall specific i can se why they in general wanted Nautilus to go first.

[@benjamingreen6826]

I thought the same thing

[@tronni6331]

In addition, Taliyah has an aoe that cuts the path, covers space and is on the one hand a skill shot but easier to hit to take effect ensuring that naut can easier hit his q. The possibility that naut q misses is higher i think so i would go with taliyah going first.

[@Skyler827]

very useful information and I don't even play jungle. I might just start.

[@mrherol2482]

Imagine if I had a real weapon

[@CitriReg]

big mistake -jg main

[@Peaceofmind899]

Good guide, very informative

[@Nachtrobbe]

About the Graves example... If he would have pathed straight to north instead of running directly into Fiora AND would have hit his smoke grenade Im pretty sure that would have been a kill anyway. :D

[@MarsKat]

i was thinking the same

[@dyner2369]

as well as using his dash too early :D

[@radelak3794]

you forgot the slows available the lee sin should throw the q first bc its easier to hit then slow e and then the hard to hit q from nami

[@Negativity808]

Grandmaster peak jg main here. This a a swell, and simple concept to digest. I link these to my lower elo friends who ask for advice

[@rodrigorodriguez509]

So like are you foreign or just inarticulate

[@vincentiusleonard6429]

8:58 but my laners die all the time tho???? is it better to ignore them and farm a game?

[@andrewkelley9405]

That bot lane play from about 4:45 onwards gave my conniptions.

[@ImOdd.]

Nice guide, useful information, sadly this does not work in low elo.

[@lefroste6370]

most braindead comment ever

[@Albiorix]

@@lefroste6370 why so? A number of the tips laid out here make no sense if you're ment to rely on people who don't know this. What if your laner doesn't want to hit his cc or fails to do so at the appropriate time? What if your enemies don't know how to capitalize on you showing yourself on one side of the map?

[@maskmo8827]

Yeaah Exactly! Ive Watched This Channel a Lot And I Did What All He Says But Still Dont Work In Low Elo's Its So Annoying To When Your Team Mate Fed's Enemy Team Then Blame's it To You... Im Stuck At Bronze 1 LoL.. They Are'nt Mature Enough to Play That Game So.

[@jaylhant]

@@maskmo8827 First off, do not capitalize every word in your sentence. Second, if you’re really low elo and want to get out as a jungler, you must play a champion that can carry as well as set up a gank fairly decently. Something like Warwick is a wonderful champion in low elo. These tips help out fairly decently once you’re in silver I would say. Once you know how to gank and have a good gauge as to what you can gank, all you have to do is look for the right circumstances to gank. For example, is the enemy laner super pushed in? Look to gank them immediately if you and your laner have the damage/cc to successfully kill them. You have to play at raise the chance you can pull off a successful gank as much as you can before you go in for it. Trust me, at low elo your opponent will make plenty of mistakes that you can capitalize on to win. When jungling, you have to balance a lot of knowledge on where you should be and where you are. Knowing when to be somewhere is key.

[@maskmo8827]

@@jaylhant more comfortable if I type like this for me I know is wrong. I just really prefer when I type like that. i use basic champions like nasus.yi.trynda etc. and This Comment Is 1 Month Ago. Now Im already. gold 2

[@maskedkitsune9774]

With the taliyah gank wouldn’t E on the gank work better. For slow then naut hits hook which stuns them then use the W to knock them back. Makes more sense does it not ?

[@Bracket_Man]

2:18 how is windwall at all relevant here? it doesnt block melee nor vlads damage

[@andrewkelley9405]

I think he is just saying it could be available. I think he is referring to all jungle champs there, not just Yi.

[@R0cKabL3]

i think it was meant more generally when the enemy has ranged attacks. also vlad e can be blocked im pretty sure

[@SenpaiPlayz]

@@R0cKabL3 and vlad e is majority of his damage

[@JustLetMePickAFuckingUsername]

Blocks vlads AA and E

[@andrewkelley9405]

@@JustLetMePickAFuckingUsername didn’t know that!

[@oAZTECKx1]

Can I please get a link to the soundtrack you guys use? I really love listening to it in the background

[@jonnyd979]

mostly everytime... my mates are pushing to enemy tower and die 3 times in row by getting ganked.. after they die for pushing the limit out of there lane they start pinging me for not ganking

[@christhis9597]

Tip: build tier two boots early Junglers: *magical footwear*

[@NemeskZS]

exactly my point, but if you check 99% of pro players do the same :D idk who is right now in this case

[@jaylhant]

@@NemeskZS as my English teacher always says, you can break the rules once you have learned the rules. This guide is to help people get successful ganks off, once you know how to gank well you can change the formula to prioritize your style of play

[@DANAR-ne3cn]

i might use these for my roams

[@darkgoblin5681]

Shouldnt Taliyah use E first in the example? To make it easier for Nautilus to land his hook? Not that it would be hard to land a Nautilus hook with that hitbox. The only way that could turn out bad is when Kaisa flashes out before nautilus can hook her..

[@13YoJest13]

The distance Taliyah is away would easily let Kai'sa flash downward towards the alcove area to avoid most of the slow. This would also blocks Nautilus hook with minions and Taliyah would have effectively wasted her E and have no way to land W easily.

[@lefroste6370]

taliyah e is a small area with a delay,naut q is bigger,faster and is a projectile so harder to dodge,she could've atleast went with q first and make the kaisa juke herself out until your team catches up

[@Undomaranel]

Not just that, but notice she decided to auto the near full hp Veigar instead of the stunned, 5% hp Kai'sa. It's usually far better to get a kill and make a fight a 2v1 than poke around.

[@Bighomer5]

on the macro level, I gank the strong early lanes and ignore the kayles and Kassadins till at least lvl6?

[@namthanh9485]

but why do pro junglers take magical footwear? they only get a tier 1 boot at around 10 mins, which laning phase is about to end

[@thehentairevenant2309]

Skillcaped explained how to gank lanes Me,a shaco main: interesting

[@Negativity808]

Haha *cries in nocturne*

[@zakequake]

Okay but how do I stop my teammates from going afk right as I get into their lane, and then getting counter ganked by the jungler who has done nothing but wait in a bush to counter gank the entire game

[@thesaurus1408]

My brain have error xD you are saying about rushing boots tier 2 then why people picks magial boots in runes as a diana jungle ? If they won't get some kills they are without boots and cant buy normal either

[@thesaurus1408]

I mean maybe gold debt rune is better ?

[@pokerraper1]

@@thesaurus1408 magical boots and gold debt are in a separate row. But I think is because Diana usually don't gank unless is a really cheap gank (hard engage/follow up). So they tend to farm a lot until 6, were the boots don't make any difference aside from damage. Tier 2 boots are meant to keep closer to the enemy or run from them (regarding ms) so...

[@ronniekoomba922]

Great information but i wish it were real! My teammates see me coming for the gank (after max pings) some how not notice that I'm ganking (muted pings? or making a sandwich?) to then not throw ANY of their abilities.....so we immediately proceed to play patty cake: " Patty cake, patty cake, bakers man, bake me a cake as fast as you can; pat and roll it, mark it with a B and put it in the oven for baby and me!"

[@fuji.san_eh]

or graves could've used some geometry and walk towards to the enemy tower rather than walking on a line thorugh the wall

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

1:41 "you need to evaluate which of your lanes is worth handling the most" Proceeds to show jungle and support icons

[@helennethers9777]

TDLR: To get to challenger, rush tier 2 boots jungler

[@rhymzwithorange5885]

I am the taliyah that completely screwed up every gank.

[@CFG_bubblegums]

but inst a jg with a ton of gold and killz pretty useless rather going for kills all the time try to get your laners feed so they relay on you less

[@robertthecollector2229]

woaw what an match :O:D

[@oui2826]

Woaw

[@maskmo8827]

Woah

[@viveksachan11]

i play nunu if enemy is 1 step beyond the mid line i go gank✌️

[@nicolai3023]

so basically i should not use slightly magical footwear?

[@notlunalust]

Idk about rushing boots. All I see from high tier junglers is taking magical footwear. Sooooooo?

[@tolli1748]

minute 4 makes zero sense if u dont mention her having to flash for this to work

[@KpopCodedL]

Hi brother, i play league of legends in NA with 200+ ms, in an i3 laptop, but it's pretty good, and I'm really stuck in iron 5, please help me how to get rid of that iron rank placement 😕

[@rodrigorodriguez509]

Leave this guy alone

[@mattarends5451]

Boots first? Boots first!

[@mehead3130]

good guild

[@maskmo8827]

guild

[@claudiobc98]

the thing is, in many games my ganks are well done and I often get the kill... but afterwards my teammates simply feed and I can't carry the game alone; the last match at certain point I was 6/0 as Hecarim, 30 cs ahead of the enemy jg and also got 2 dragons by myself, but...even then I couldn't carry my 0/4 1/5 2/4 teammates and lost the game... it's just tilting at that point and probably unavoidable since shit like that happens all the time, unless I get the luck of having at least 2 decent teammates

[@twistedfireking1845]

Why is it not 2 mins in and this person is already wrong on the first two things they explained? I thought this was suppose to be THE guide but its not fully explaining anything.

[@wiellnyan]

Gank to tax...

[@isaac2986]

I do this in mobile MOBA games a lot, if I'm in a lane, I get ahead then I roam just for kills, then I disappear right after, which makes the opponent confused on where I am. I end up with over 10 kills each game lol League is way slower per game, since the mobile games last around 10 mins not 20-40 mins, so I will have to convert the way I play, into a slower style

[@technofreak39]

leaving right after kill is often a noob-trap. Help your laner reset the lane by crashing the wave in the turret to make your teammates play better. Noone wants useless laners as jungler :P

[@isaac2986]

@@technofreak39 yeah, tho I push in after a kill, turret or just the wave before I roam. It's also funny how when I roam my teammates roam to where I'm not lol

[@cavegamer0193]

Any midlaners here?

[@ΠαύλοςΘάλασσα]

Skillcapped : you need to evaluate which of your lane is worth hadling the most My game: every lane is autofilled Me in the chat: ff 15

[@MisterLawc]

Shaco in the thumbnail but not in the video

[@yeetcasual8761]

First

[@Manos.98]

All the jungling tips ull need : ignore top lane . Most of the times enemies do better 2v1 ( illaoi , aatrox , darius , morde etc etc etc etc ) . Dont waste ur time trying to gank this useless side of the map . Youre welcome