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UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
August 10 2011 17:29 GMT
#41
what, at level two? lol
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
August 10 2011 17:33 GMT
#42
The longsword is obviously better for level 2 ganks since you get an extra health potions, but around 7-10 minutes it helps a lot.
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
August 10 2011 18:25 GMT
#43
so buy a doran's blade at around 7-10 minutes
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 18:37:47
August 10 2011 18:37 GMT
#44
I wasn't aware that after your level 2 gank, that you weren't allowed to gank again afterwards till 10 minutes in.
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 18:46:38
August 10 2011 18:46 GMT
#45
what I'm suggesting

step 1 buy longsword

step 2 gank

step 3 at your next shop or whenever you want or never, buy doran's blade

I just don't see any reason to start with the blade instead of picking it up later
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
August 10 2011 18:50 GMT
#46
Xin + Taric bot #1
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
August 10 2011 22:05 GMT
#47
On August 11 2011 03:46 UniversalSnip wrote:
what I'm suggesting

step 1 buy longsword

step 2 gank

step 3 at your next shop or whenever you want or never, buy doran's blade

I just don't see any reason to start with the blade instead of picking it up later


You save a health potion when you are only clearing small camps anyway.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
August 10 2011 22:17 GMT
#48
Ok. i added a link to Mogwai's post in the OP, right before i list my jungle methods.
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Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
August 10 2011 23:13 GMT
#49
buy longsword + pot means getting a pot, which is flushing 35 gold down the toilet

dblade lifesteals 3% off of ~80 damage/hit = 2.4/hit meaning that you only need about 41 hits before the lifesteal and base HP from dblade overtake the 200 hp you get from a potion and meanwhile you haven't wasted money on a potion.
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-Kato-
Profile Joined June 2010
Spain1146 Posts
August 10 2011 23:23 GMT
#50
But longsword is part of the razor, and its not like you need the 100 hp when jungling right? Faster razor means faster jungling from then on?
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
August 10 2011 23:39 GMT
#51
On August 11 2011 08:13 Mogwai wrote:
buy longsword + pot means getting a pot, which is flushing 35 gold down the toilet

dblade lifesteals 3% off of ~80 damage/hit = 2.4/hit meaning that you only need about 41 hits before the lifesteal and base HP from dblade overtake the 200 hp you get from a potion and meanwhile you haven't wasted money on a potion.

The pot is an investment in flexibility/security. Suppose you get counterganked by their jungler after their blue on your way out from your level 2 gank. Or you just take a fair bit of damage in the level 2 gank. If you get low enough, you can't risk continuing your jungle, but if you have a pot, you can simply continue. The DBlade EVENTUALLY catches up to the pot's healing, but that's the same in lane--you use pots because it takes too long for the eventual regen/lifesteal to get your HP back up to safe levels and you'll lose too much time otherwise.

Xin normally has the sustainability to not need to worry about that, but level 2 wraiths without smite and with QE seems like probably the most annoying camp for Xin in his first rounds through the jungle.
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Chrispy
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada5878 Posts
August 11 2011 00:13 GMT
#52
Eh I wouldn't advocate going D-blade. If you're going to be ganking a lot just get boots + 3 pots. :$ Early game movespeed is the best.
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Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
August 11 2011 01:46 GMT
#53
On August 10 2011 18:19 cascades wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 26 2011 02:17 Seuss wrote:
On July 25 2011 22:43 57 Corvette wrote:
Well, the standard blue route ends at level 4 (Not sure of the timing on this, 4 mins or around there?), and you are on low hitpoints so you need to go back to base before ganking.
This jungle route ends at level 6 at around 7ish mins, and nearly at full health, allowing for ganking right away. It is also safer, as the only time you are really low on hitpoints is after the first wraith/wolves camp.

You can use the Blue route, I just prefer the level 6 route.


The whole point of using a jungler like Xin is for his ridiculously strong, easily repeatable early ganks. He's perfectly capable of exiting the jungle at level 4 with full health before 4:00 without a leash at blue. You can even tack on an extra 30 seconds to recall and buy boots before Red if it seems necessary or health is an issue (but it shouldn't be).

The level 6 route you're using only works in ideal situations where you aren't counter-jungled and your lanes can thrive without jungle support for five minutes. It's not enough for them to survive, they need to be able to farm as well.


My experience starting at blue is not the case. You using AS runes and all 5 pots?


AS Quints/Marks, 21/0/9 and using all pots if it's clear that mid or the nearby lane is in a good ganking position. Otherwise I can cut a couple pots and recall before Red.

My point is really that whatever your setup, waiting to gank until 7ish minutes is a waste when jungling as Xin. If you're going to do that you really should pick a different jungler with a stronger level 6 gank/better late game.
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Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-11 03:55:54
August 11 2011 03:52 GMT
#54
I've been prioritizing skills like R>E>Q>W. Is R>Q>E>W that much better? Seems like the level gains on E per level are better than the gains on Q per level.

So I've been going like EQEW, then R>E>Q>W
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
August 11 2011 19:45 GMT
#55
What's your skilling order past level two in the jungle mogwai? Do you max W early?
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Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
August 11 2011 19:47 GMT
#56
QEWQQR R > Q > E > W
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
August 11 2011 19:49 GMT
#57
On August 12 2011 04:47 Mogwai wrote:
QEWQQR R > Q > E > W


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R04R
Profile Joined March 2009
United States1631 Posts
August 11 2011 22:12 GMT
#58
Prioritizing E over Q increases your frontload burst and increases the slow % from E. Why wouldn't you get more levels of E after 1 level of Q? Having level 5 E at 9 pretty much makes you a burst caster, which is a good thing to have, not a bad thing. Your jungling might be slower because E costs lots of mana, but your ganks are real terror.
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godemperor
Profile Joined October 2010
Belgium2043 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-11 22:20:24
August 11 2011 22:19 GMT
#59
A thread by 57 Corvette with 57 replies NO MORE! lol
edit: yeah I had nothing to add to the discussion sorry
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
August 12 2011 18:37 GMT
#60
On August 11 2011 09:13 Chrispy wrote:
Eh I wouldn't advocate going D-blade. If you're going to be ganking a lot just get boots + 3 pots. :$ Early game movespeed is the best.

This is actually like, really smart. FUCK, Chrispy so good, gonna try this.

On August 12 2011 07:12 R04R wrote:
Prioritizing E over Q increases your frontload burst and increases the slow % from E. Why wouldn't you get more levels of E after 1 level of Q? Having level 5 E at 9 pretty much makes you a burst caster, which is a good thing to have, not a bad thing. Your jungling might be slower because E costs lots of mana, but your ganks are real terror.

After 3 hits, extra levels in E have less damage than extra levels in Q, not even counting the fact that E does magic rather than physical damage (and you should be specced for armor pen). I dunno, I guess this makes some sense for the slow duration, but I think it would really hurt your pre-wriggles jungling speed. Maybe QEWQQREEEER for first 11 levels?
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