Grandmaster Ne Zha 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.
  
  
• Ne Zha has an aggressive early fight, but he lacks an escape ability. When it comes to fighting in the jungle, his 2v2 is one of the best in the game due to the nature of Universe Ring Toss.
  
  
• Your ganks become stronger and stronger with each level up of Universe Ring Toss, look more and more for the rotations.
  
  
• Have a priority of Buff Camps > Rotations > Harpies while roaming around in the Jungle.
  
  
• Cooldown reduction is valuable on Ne Zha, but only if you are using your ultimate on cooldown. Be aggressive!

• 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.
  
  
• Team fights are frequent, your role in the team fights is to punish the enemies positioning - force relics or ult someone who does not have beads. It's easiest to focus the enemy jungler, as they struggle to be relevant without relics.
  
  
• Depending on your build, you may face risk from enemy abilities when you land from your ultimate. Characters such as Kukulkan are strong with Ne Zha, but also strong against him. If there is a similar god on the enemy team capable of punishing you for ulting, it may be a good idea to try and put them in the air over the others.

• 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.
  
  
• During a Fire Giant fight, Ne Zha is a solid initiator for his team, however just because you can doesn't mean you should. Once Ne Zha goes in, the enemies do not have to be afraid of him because he will only be capable of hitting a single enemy. For this reason, it's better you play for kill pressure and play off of your solo laner, because the risk of dying on landing (unless full tank) is too high.
  
  
• If you see an enemy out of position, you can blink and ult them to buy time for your team to get closer. This is something Ne Zha excels at.
  
  
• During a Siege Fight, you can pressure the mid phoenix with a split push, but recognize fighting the enemy jungler is not your goal. Many of them are looking for fights with you, your job is to keep them away from your team but not actually fight them, as your kit can be blinked easily in the 1v1 and fighting under the enemy phoenix is not favorable. Play for time!

Ne Zha is a team based jungler who burns through his opposition's relics. Your thinking process shouldn't be all-in's, rather baiting the first time and executing (for free) the second time when they have no relics. The recommended build gives him deceptively high damage and 1v1 with Deathbringer, but the drawback is vulnerability when you land from your ultimate. You can adapt the build to your preference, weigh the pros and cons to your preference, and go wild out there!