Mobile Legends Jungle Guide: Routes, Ganks and Objectives

To jungle in Mobile Legends, take the Retribution battle spell, clear your camps in an order that gives you your ultimate before the first Turtle fight, gank only where a gank can work, and keep Retribution for the last hit on the Turtle and the Lord. This Mobile Legends jungle guide goes through those four habits, and none of them depends on which heroes are strong at the moment.

What the jungler does in MLBB

Four of your teammates share lanes and minion waves. You live on the jungle creeps between the lanes, and nobody shares those with you, so the jungler is usually among the first players to reach level 4.

That lead is not yours to keep. The team gives you the jungle so that you spend it on three things: helping a lane win, taking the Turtle and later the Lord, and stopping the enemy jungler from doing the same. A jungler with a great score and no objectives has done half the job.

Retribution, the spell that makes you the jungler

Retribution is the battle spell that deals heavy true damage to a creep or a minion. It makes your clears faster, and it decides who gets the last hit on a buff, the Turtle or the Lord. It also opens the jungle equipment in the shop, which adds an effect of your choice to the spell.

Three rules come with it:

• One Retribution per team. Two junglers split the same camps and both fall behind.
• Camps for you, waves for the laners. Take a wave only when your teammate is away and the tower would kill the minions anyway.
• Before any objective, check that Retribution is ready. If it is on cooldown, you are not really there.

How to jungle in MLBB: the first clear

The opening is the same task in every match: take both buffs and the camps between them, reach level 4, and be at the river when the first Turtle appears.

1. Start at a buff. The purple buff, which many players still call the blue buff, lowers the cost of your skills and shortens their cooldowns. The orange buff, the old red buff, adds extra damage and a slow to your basic attacks. Begin with the one your hero needs more.
2. Take the camps on the way to the second buff. The gold and experience you walk past stay behind you.
3. Take the second buff, and the small river creep if it is on your path.
4. At level 4 you have your ultimate, and you are ready for a gank or for the Turtle.

Early in the clear, press Retribution whenever it is ready. Hold it only when an objective is about to be fought for, or when the enemy jungler could appear at your buff.

Ganks: when to leave your camps

A gank is a surprise visit to a lane that turns an even fight into an uneven one. A good gank has three signs, and you can read all three on the minimap before you move:

• The enemy stands far from his tower.
• Your teammate can join in: enough health, and ideally a stun or a slow.
• You can arrive from the side or from behind, through the river or a bush, not down the lane where everybody sees you coming.

If the enemy gets back under his tower in time, let him go. Help your laner push the wave, then return to your camps. Between ganks, farm: the rhythm of the role is camps, then a gank or an objective, then camps again.

The Turtle and the Lord

The Turtle is the objective of the early game. Killing it gives gold and experience to your whole team, and two or three Turtles add up to a real lead.

Later the Lord takes its place. Once killed, it walks down a lane with your team and attacks the enemy towers, and it comes back stronger the longer the match lasts.

Both are taken the same way:

1. Arrive first. Stand in the river before the objective appears, and ping early so that the mid laner and the roamer clear their waves and come.
2. Count before you start. Begin when more enemies than allies are dead or seen far away. An enemy jungler who is alive and unseen is probably waiting for the last hit.
3. For the Lord, push the side lanes first, so that the enemies must choose between defending their towers and contesting.
4. Keep Retribution for the end. Bring the objective down with skills, watch its health bar, and press the spell when the remaining health is below its damage.

An objective taken after a won fight is almost free. An objective started in order to force a fight is a coin toss.

MLBB jungler tips: mistakes to drop first

• Farming a far camp while your team fights four against five at the Turtle.
• Ganking a lane that is already lost. A fed enemy laner will kill you both.
• Invading the enemy jungle on a guess. Take his camps only when you have seen him on the other side of the map, or dead.
• Taking the Lord and then scattering. Push with it, all five of you, in the lane it walks.

Frequent questions

Which heroes are good for learning the jungle?

Heroes with simple skills, so that your eyes stay on the map. Saber and Balmond are long-standing choices. Leave Fanny, Ling and Lancelot for later.

Can I jungle without Retribution?

Not well. Your clears are slower, the jungle equipment is closed to you, and an enemy jungler who carries it wins almost every last hit on the Turtle and the Lord.

What do I do when I fall behind?

Stop fighting and farm. Clear every camp as it returns, and fight only next to your team. If you cannot contest an objective, take something on the other side of the map.

Beyond this Mobile Legends jungle guide: heroes, skins and diamonds

Diamonds do not clear camps faster. They can open a new hero early, or dress the jungler you have played a hundred matches with. If the role is new to you, start with MLBB roles explained.

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