Marki's short guide to Geb jungle [01.29 Patch]

This is just a example on how to make a fast and easy guide and still give some good tips on how to play the god (took me like 60 min to put it together).

Why should you jungle Geb? because his ganks are so strong, you are going to have a slow clear time but as long as you counterjungle when you got Hand of the Gods off cd and gank a lot you will do fine. And the Roll Out is just to fun to be true.



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"Crits only do +25% damage to Geb, rather than the normal +100%."

Gives you great defense especially vs carries, so like Artemis, Apollo and other crit based gods like Ne Zha, Mercury etc

Roll Out

"Geb turns into a mass of rolling earth, damaging and slowing enemies he encounters, stopping at the first god he hits. He increases speed as he travels, his damage scaling from 50% to maximum over 3s. Once at his top speed, Geb becomes CC immune, and will also knockback enemy gods."
Damage: 100 / 175 / 250 / 325 / 400 (+50% of your magical power)
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 10s

This is you highest damaging ability AFTER you have channeled it for 3 seconds, that is the reason for me maxing it second. The knockback makes it super strong for ganking especially in the early game, so pick it up at lvl. Just start channeling from the jungle can come in from behind and knock the enemy into your minion wave or tower. At lvl 2 that is a 100% guarantied kill unless you **** up.
A tip for when you are starting the first camp (red or speed), start channeling from behind the baby harpies at 00:07 this way you get the 100% damage from the skill and not just 50%.

Shock Wave

"Geb creates a shock wave, which ripples out from him in a cone, causing damage and knockup to all enemies. Enemies closer to Geb take full damage, enemies at the furthest edge take 50%."
Damage: 90 / 160 / 230 / 300 / 370 (+50% of your magical power)
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15s

I max this first to get as fast a jungle clear as possible. It gives you good CC and in combination with Roll Out you can CC-chain ppl to death quite easy. Just remember to be close to ppl when you use it to get the full 100% effect out of the damage.

Stone Shield

"Geb targets himself or an ally to put a shield around. The shield blocks all damage and Knockback effects, and lasts until its time expires or it takes enough damage to be destroyed. The Shield also cleanses any CC when applied."
Shield Health: 0 / 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 +18% of Geb's Max Health
Shield Duration: 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6s
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 18s

It is a shield, great to save your squishy teammates. I max it last because I build a fair deal of early health items witch gives the shield a lot of health (18% of your max health) and it counts health from items as far as I can tell. Also keep in mind that it is a cleanse as well so if an ally gets CCed, just shield him. The shield is really good when it comes to tower diving.

Cataclysm

"Geb pulls apart the earth, dealing magical damage to all enemy gods based on a percent of thier current health, and stunning them."
Damage: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% of Current Target Health
Stun Duration: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8s
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90

This is the complete opposite from a finishing ability. ALWAYS use this before Shock Wave if you are going to use it in a fight and try to get it off before any of your teammates do any damage to the enemies. It is a great source for burst damage in teamfights, just roll in with Roll Out and pop it to do as much damage as possible and stun them to make them easy targets for your carries.

Summary

So this is the way I would lvl up my skills as Geb, you might want to max Roll Out first instead of Shock Wave to do some more damage. But unless you manage to time it good enough in the jungle you are going to end up with a lot of weak 50% damage Roll Outs which will hurt your jungle clear a ton.

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Get it first because you have to be able to farm stacks as fast as possible (it takes some time while you are jungling). The health works great combined with your Stone Shield, so you are going to be able to help your team out a lot more.

Shoes Of Focus
Because your abilities have a pretty long cooldown, all except the Roll Out which is not that easy to use while in a fight (because you need the 3 sec to make full use of it, although the slow is pretty nice). So basically just to be able to do more in fights.

Sovereignty
More health for Stone Shield and overall tankyness, the aura is great for your team. If you do not need it go for either Focused Void Stone or Ethereal Staff first. Even though your team has a Sovereignty (on your support) I would suggest picking it up, just because this makes you able to go inn and someone can go in with you (solo lane for example) and he will still have the aura even when the support is protecting the carries.

Ethereal Staff
Because of all the health you got this makes the passive on the item increase your magical power a fair deal (have not done the math yet, but just from the 2050 health from all the items you have that is 40 magical power so approximately 110 magical power total from the item) and your Stone Shield will have about 1200 health on it.

Focused Void Stone
You need penetration, 25 penetration might not be a ton but it helps you deal some damage. This might be switched out with a Obsidian Shard, but % penetration is always better if you have some flat penetration to begin with. Also the magical power and protection is good to have.

Bulwark Of Hope
More health to Stone Shield and magical protection against mages.

Summary

So this build is pretty tanky build so you are going to be able to go into teamfights with no problem and disrupt the enemy team with all your CC, and the Stone Shield has enough health to mitigate 2 ults. The draw back with the build though is that you lack penetration and your magical power is pretty low as well, so magical protection kills your damage output and now when qins sais are used a lot all your health can be pretty dangerous.
Going with Shoes of the Magi instead of Shoes of Focus, Breastplate of Valor instead of Sovereignty and Obsidian Shard instead of Focused Void Stone could help with that. Or just go with Focused Void Stone and switch Bulwark of Hope with Rod of Tahuti. If you feel you need lifesteal Polynomicon is always a good pick (but I doubt you are going to need it).

So this is my take on Geb jungle, it is not the normal bursty jungle more of a second support for your team and your job is to disrupt the enemy team and set up kills etc.

I have to add that I believe him to be best suited for the support role and solo lane though, but if you are looking for a new and fun way to jungle this might be something for you!



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