Grandmaster Kali Jungle

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• Star at the Fire Giant side Speed Buff (or Red Buff), and group up the jungle camps with your mid laner. Once the Red and Speed buff jungle camps are cleared together, head towards your remaining speed buff. Your mid laner should help you clear this buff camp. Finally, head towards the exp camp near the Tier 1 Mid tower, presume you will clear this alone.
  
  
• You now have 2 choices. You can stay in the Jungle towards the mid lane, looking for a gank on the enemy mid laner or clear the Mid-Harpies. The second option is to head straight to duo lane, and look for a gank on the enemy duo lane (and clear Scorpion). Heading to Duo lane has a greater risk, but much greater reward if successful.
  
  
• Kali has a deceptively strong early game, as you have Incense, Lash, and Blink Rune. You don't have your jump to initiate, but blink will do. However, this also means you have no way out, which means you have to play back. If you see a kill opening you could blink in, but otherwise let the enemies pressure as you as you don't want to loose health before the fight starts.
  
  
• You have a priority of: Buff Camps > Rotations > Harpies. You won't loose out on farm, but putting Rotations before Harpies will make sure you spend your farm, rather than miss out on opportunities.
  
  
• Your ganks are quite strong with your Incense, but don't risk dying to try and get a kill.

• Begins around ~14 minutes, or when most people have hit Level 12 and unlocked their Second Relic. Most enemy teams have gotten around to warding by now, and team fights become increasingly common. Most builds have started to show effectiveness.
  
  
• Mid game will be the true test of a Kali player, as this is when your character is weakest. You don't have enough damage to kill someone with Destruction for free, and many characters will force your relics for stepping up. However, if you get past this phase of the game, very few characters can stop you.
  
  
• Still show up to team fights, but don't risk dying to save the fight - play selfishly. Blink on the enemy backline if your solo laner or support makes space, and sometimes you may be able to blink on the enemy jungler to prevent them from diving your team.
  
  
• You should think of your job as: stalling out to late game.

• Almost everybody has hit Level 20, Fire Giant is the most important objective on the map. Starter items become unlocked at Level 20, which results in a damage/defensive spike. This means that everybody dies faster, and Team Fights are the most important thing.
  
  
• Kali has one of the best 1v1s in the game, and is capable of running down certain characters with no counterplay. Look to Blink Rune on the enemy backline whenever possible, but make sure you protect your Purification Beads.
  
  
• If nothing is happening at the Fire Giant pit, you could force a jungler 1v1 by pushing the mid waves. Hover towards the duo side of the map while doing so, just in case multiple people show up. If you see the enemy jungler alone, blink on them.
  
  
• During a Siege fight, look to split push the mid phoenix. Don't try and hit the phoenix, but rather try to blink on the enemy jungler when given the chance. Even if you can't kill them, it's unlikely for you to die in the 1v1.

Kali spends the mid game at a disadvantage, but getting through that unscathed is what sets your team up for victory. She has one of the strongest late games, and the difference maker is not your late, but your early game. It's okay to give up pressure to the hyper aggressive junglers, their time will come later. Focus on stalling out the game and saving your teammates, and slowly, but surely, you become a Destruction war machine.