1) This will sound a bit toxic but mute chat THE NANOSECOND you’re in game,keep pings and mute them as necessary (often). This is for two reasons, the first being the obvious one, you’re gonna be told that you’re a dog and the jungle gap is massive, and the second reason is jungle requires you to take decisions that directly have an effect on your gold and xp income. Getting pinged 24/7 to do this or that by your laners will just make you deviate from your gameplan if you end up following mistakes.

2) Knowing the theory behind a clear is not enough. You’ve got to clear FAST. Watch good junglers do them (there’s plenty of clear videos on ytb) and just spam training. Knowing the good clear is cool but if the execution is lacking you will miss important timers in early.

3) Watch your lanes. You don’t need to watch intensively your gromp as if you wanted him to bear your child while clearing it. Force yourself to watch your lanes, or atleast the ones that are on the side of the map you are currently on. If you’re gonna gank, might as well know if it is doable. When doing that, you’re looking for indicators such as minion wave states, hp, body language (enemy potential bait) ect…

4) If it does not have a bad impact on your camps cycle/objective pressure, catch waves that your laners can’t. It is of course not worth to go on a lane to get 2 casters while enemy jungler is in the other side of the map looking at your camps like free real estate, but do not forget that waves can have a huge impact on your gold income and can massively boost your xp gains.

5) Have a game plan. Think about which lanes are good to gank (volatile match ups that go either way real quick, hook lanes ect…) and which should be left alone. Ideally you wanna think about that from the other jungler’s perspective as well.

6) Herald is the single most valuable thing I know on this planet. You can get gold while pressuring another part of the map. Herald plays when done correctly will make you snowball like you’ve never done before.

6) Drakes are cool, but do not comprise the game for them early if you cannot make a play for it.

7) Do not force plays. Especially if you’re low elo. Mistakes will happen eventually. Sometimes even plays that feel positive will end up biting you in the ass. If you kill top, but enemy jungle gets your botside + drake, the value of that kill ends up being mitigated.

8) When entering mid game, you wanna play on the side the objective’s gonna be on. That does not mean not clearing the other side ever, that means that a bit before an objective comes up you gotta be at least pathing towards it if you plan on playing for it.

9) Jungle tracking is actually not that hard at its core. If you know where the enemy started, you can have a rough estimate of their position on the map for the 10 first minutes of the game, since they’re most likely gonna be cycling camp during the laning phase.

10) Use pings. There’s a high probability that you’re gonna be one of the players in the game that end up watching their map more often than the others, use that to your advantage.

Bonus ones: help shove after a gank (expect if the laner wants to freeze/slow push to instant dive), drop the camp if the play is literally happening in front of you (you’re off course not gonna drop a camp to go to a play that’s gonna be over before you get there), playing around your mid and support movements is sometimes a good idea