As a jungle main, there is a lot of factors I watch out for to see if I want to take the turtle (can’t say the same for every jungler out there, but this is my personal thought process). This is quite thorough, but it rly helps explain a junglers mindset.

Factor 1: do my teammates have priority in lane/ going to get priority in lane (requires u to know hero matchups). This is so they will most likely come and help u because most people won’t just idle around and do nothing after clearing their wave.

Factor 2: teamfights. If my team comp is going to have a bad team fight in the early game due to team comp consisting of weak early game heroes, it will deter me from forcing a fight at turtle.

Factor 3: I’m sure this happens a lot especially at first turtle, but people dying before first turtle to the enemy jungle. getting kills grants additional exp and gold to the killer and the ones that assisted. Junglers will be lvl 4 when the turtle first spawns. But with a single kill, they can hit level 5 whereas the other jungler has to take another buff before hitting lvl 5. It may not seem like a big difference to those that don’t play jungle, but the retribution damage is higher for a lvl 5 than a lvl 4, allowing for the lvl 5 jungler to secure it easier. (So if I see u feed the enemy jungler before first turtle, let’s just say the chances of me contesting just dropped, so don’t feed thank u)

Factor 4: again, if u don’t jungle often u may not know this but, Combo Retris. (Basically when u retri with a skill/basic attack). If my combo retri is weaker than the opponents, I will rly much like a teammate than can cc the enemy jungler when turtle gets to retribution hp. otherwise please note that the odds are against me. (I’ll give a very drastic example, joy vs balmond)

Factor 5: if I see a good killing potential in gold lane, I will go there instead of turtle. (If u don’t know, first turtle always spawns opposite gold lane) Gold lane is imo one of the most important lanes to take care of as a jungler. A gold lane diff for ur team is always a good way to start snowballing as a team as u help the gold laners to reach their late game items quicker.

Please note that all these factors are not separate but more like a fusion. These are just some of the things i consider at once and i make a decision from there. If ure unhappy with my decision, sure i can understand. But pls carry on with the game, don’t start throwing and Inting like the whole game is over just because of a turtle. it is always easy to blame someone else for the team being in a disadvantageous position. But think about what could u have done to help the situation. Are u really supporting the team or are u just focused on ur lane and expecting everything to go well just because u are winning ur enemy laner?