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Nemesis’ basic
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an advantage. Ganking requires
timing and patience, and knowing
your god in order to get the best
initiation you can. If people have
been reading these guides they
will be buying wards so they may
see you coming. You have to be
sneaky yet aggressive in order to
gank, so it’s a difficult job. The task
is ‘help the lanes’ and not gank
the lanes, as you can do more
than just gank. If someone in a
lane has to back you can go to the
lane and defend it; a whole wave
of minions can be a great boost to
you and you’re ensuring your team
doesn’t lose farm to the towers, or
184 XP, but there are two of them
to get the kill, or your teammate
indeed losing towers themselves.
so this also gives a good amount.
really needs your help, you will
Also ganking doesn’t have to be
If you can work out a good route
be doing people more favours
offensive, you can come in and
(I will provide this later) you can
by getting your own gold in the
help defend your teammate if they
maximize your own farm and then
jungle. If you have cleared all your
are being pushed and relieve their
get some free time to help your
camps it is definitely worth going
pressure. Sometimes a strong
team, which leads us to task two…
to a lane and helping out your
enemy jungler will have to be
team. The idea of ganking is that
stopped, and an ambush with your
a 2v1 situation is very difficult for
teammates can be the best way to
the enemy laner to survive and
shut them down. Just remember
Your team will be yelling for you to
so you can get kills, or at least
there’s one of you and three
do this, but do not prioritize it over
lower the enemy’s health and force
lanes so use your time wisely.
your farm. Unless you are likely
them to back, giving your laner
HELP THE LANES.
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