League of Legends Timing Guide for Climbing: Jungle Pathing, Objectives, and Macro
December 19, 2025
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After a three-camp clear, the earliest window for a jungler to impact lanes is around 2:30–3:00. To gank at this timing, the jungler must skip at least one camp, which means accepting an experience loss. From a jungle perspective, this is a high-risk, high-reward decision.
Champions that commonly leverage this timing include Rek'Sai, Elise, and Jarvan. All of them have strong crowd control and early skirmishing power, making them well suited to immediate ganks after a three-camp clear.
Champions like Graves or Kindred, while lacking hard crowd control, often use this timing differently. Instead of committing to a direct gank, they may cross through mid lane to force a skirmish or look for a counter-jungle opportunity, using their early combat strength to gain tempo advantages.
At 3:30, the Rift Scuttler spawns. This is a key moment where the power balance between the jungler and mid laner becomes especially important. If your side is weaker in an early skirmish, it is usually better to avoid fighting altogether.
When both junglers start without a leash, the standard pattern is for blue side to secure the top Scuttle while red side takes the bottom one. However, if a team has strong mid-jungle synergy, it is possible to design a path that contests or even takes the opposite Scuttle as well.
During this window, mid laners should focus on wave control and health management so their jungler can contest fights or secure Scuttle safely.
Between 4:00 and 4:30, the second raptor camp respawns if the jungler started on raptors or a nearby buff. In this window, teams with stronger mid-jungle control often look to invade and steal the enemy raptors. On the other hand, if your mid-jungle duo lacks priority, defending this camp becomes extremely important.
Depending on the champion, it is also common to clear raptors and immediately transition into mid lane pressure. Because of this, this timing requires close attention to both jungle pathing and mid lane priority.
At 8:00, Voidgrubs spawn, and junglers who have completed an eight-camp clear and recalled will typically reach level 6 at around 48 CS. This timing often leads to skirmishes around Voidgrubs, depending on mid and top lane priority, and supports frequently roam to join these fights.
From a laner’s perspective, it is critical to check whether level 6 ultimates are available, push waves in advance, and secure vision before any engagement. Proactively tracking ally and enemy levels, lane states, and vision control, and communicating clearly about upcoming Voidgrub fights, can have a significant impact on win rate.
By this stage of the game, overall advantages and disadvantages between teams often start to become clear. In many games, the bottom turret has already fallen, and the standard transition is for the bottom duo to swap into mid lane.
Rift Herald serves different purposes depending on the game state. For the team that is ahead, it is a tool to force fights and accelerate a snowball. For the team that is behind, it can be a critical objective that creates a window for a comeback. If your team is in a losing position, it may be more effective to give up Herald entirely and instead secure vision in the bottom lane and lower jungle, looking for bounty opportunities or a surprise counterplay.
This is the window when Atakhan and Baron spawn. From this point onward, mid wave priority becomes extremely important. The core objective is to push mid lane first, then establish vision control on either the upper or lower side of the map, centered around Baron or Atakhan.To enable this, the bottom laner and jungler should support the mid push and work together to secure vision around the objective. Meanwhile, the top and mid laners farming side lanes should push as far as they safely can, then regroup using the established vision to look for picks or force favorable engagements with the team.
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