League of Legends' best jungle routes for solo queue players in season 12
Jungler is arguably one of the most important roles in League of Legends. However, the game often introduces changes to the jungle, and players are forced to adjust to the same.
During season 12, League of Legends did not make many changes to the jungle. Nevertheless, the change they did introduce completely altered the dynamics of how jungle is supposed to work.
It changed the clearing route, pathing, and ganking fundamentals quite a lot. In the next few sections, a detailed analysis will be done on the change and how players can change their pathing for the most optimal gains.
Before understanding jungle pathing in season 12, it is important to present an overview of how jungle worked during League of Legends' season 11. During season 11, jungle pathing primarily revolved around the route of blue buff, gromp, wolves, raptor, red buff, and finally, the scuttle crab.
This allowed League of Legends players to have an easy level 4. Full clear was never an option as the krugs are quite hard to kill at an early level and take up a lot of time. In fact, the only players who did do a full clear had a specific champion who could finish it sub 3 minutes 15 seconds.
This is because the scuttle crab spawned at 3 minutes and 15 seconds. However, that was something that only a handful of champions could manage. Therefore, the five camps clear and then the scuttle crab was the meta.
However, in League of Legends season 12, the above meta has changed completely. This is because the amount of experience that the scuttle crab gives now has been reduced by 80%. This means that the 5 camp clear and the scuttle crab kill now keeps players stuck at level 3.
Thus, since the skuttle crab experience gain has been nerfed, this raises the question of
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