Twitch Jungle, the Second Game

Twitch · Jungle · by Cowsep

Twitch Jungle, the Second GameWritten by a player, not generated · its own page

Build

Jungle
Summoners
FlashSmite
Start550g
Hunter's MacheteHealth Potion5Explorer's Ward
Core18,200g
Boots of Speed1Berserker's Greaves2B. F. Sword3Infinity Edge4The Bloodthirster5Phantom Dancer6Statikk Shiv7Last Whisper8Youmuu's Ghostblade9
Full build17,300g
Youmuu's GhostbladeLast WhisperInfinity EdgeStatikk ShivThe BloodthirsterPhantom Dancer
Situational
Sword of the OccultMadred's BloodrazorFrozen Mallet

Runes and masteries

Runes
  • x9Mark of Attack DamageMark
  • x9Seal of ArmorSeal
  • x9Glyph of Magic ResistGlyph
  • x3Quintessence of Attack SpeedQuint
  • Attack Damage +9.00
  • Attack Speed +13.50%
  • Armor +9.00
  • Magic Resist +12.60

Not the author's. Attack damage marks, the Season 3 standard on a marksman, with the attack speed on the quintessences — which is where the page name Cowsep shows in champion select, "Attack Speed", comes from. Armor seals and magic-resist glyphs keep the early jungle and the skirmishes stable while the build rushes Berserker's Greaves into Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster and Phantom Dancer. Inferred from the build and text they did publish.

Rune page

Jungle

Statistics

  • Attack Damage+9.00
  • Attack Speed+13.50%
  • Armor+9.00
  • Magic Resist+12.60
Masteries30 points21 / 9 / 0
Offense21
0/1
4/4
0/4
2/2
4/4
0/4
0/1
3/3
1/1
0/1
2/2
2/2
0/3
0/1
1/1
1/3
0/4
1/1
Defense9
1/1
0/3
1/4
2/2
3/3
1/3
1/1
0/2
0/2
0/1
0/1
0/1
0/3
0/3
0/1
0/3
0/1
0/1
0/1
Utility0
0/1
0/3
0/3
0/1
0/1
0/3
0/3
0/2
0/4
0/1
0/3
0/1
0/2
0/4
0/3
0/1
0/1
0/3
0/1

Not the author's. This is a 21/9 offensive jungle page for an AD crit Twitch: Fury, Lethality, Frenzy, Sunder, and Executioner match Berserker's Greaves, Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Phantom Dancer. The 9 Defense points take Smite support plus Tough Skin and Bladed Armor because the author is jungling while explicitly skipping Wriggle's Lantern. Inferred from the build and text they did publish.

Skill order

ultimate at 6, 11 and 16

Deadly Venom

AmbushQ
Venom CaskW
ExpungeE
Spray and PrayR
  • Ambush (Q) takes points at levels 1, 4, 5, 7, 9.
  • Venom Cask (W) takes points at levels 3, 14, 15, 17, 18.
  • Expunge (E) takes points at levels 2, 8, 10, 12, 13.
  • Spray and Pray (R) takes points at levels 6, 11, 16.

Only the max order is his. The HUD reads Q4/W1/E2/R1 at level 8 and Q5/W3/E5/R2 at level 15, so Twitch Q — Ambush is maxed first and Twitch E — Expunge second, with Twitch W — Venom Cask left for last. The exact level each point went into is not on screen; this is the sequence those two readings imply.

Why these items

Openingsall within the 475 starting gold

  • Hunter's MacheteHealth Potion5Explorer's Ward

    Machete and five potionsWhat he actually starts, and the safe first clear. The Explorer's Ward is the champion-select ward slot — it is in the B slot from the first minute and never leaves it, so the 475 gold is the Machete and the potions alone.

  • Long SwordHealth Potion2Explorer's Ward

    Long Sword and potionsHis own correction, mid-game: {*|it's even better when you start with the long sword, because you actually do damage to people when you gank them.}

Corein buy order

  • 1

    Boots of Speed325gBoots before anything else, on a jungler whose whole game is arriving somewhere.

  • 2

    Berserker's Greaves900gBerserker's Greaves, and no other boot considered.

  • 3

    B. F. Sword1,550gThe B. F. Sword he names as the thing he is saving for, twice.

  • 4

    Infinity Edge3,800gInfinity Edge out of it. He weighs Sword of the Occult against it afterwards and says the kills came from taking this instead.

  • 5

    The Bloodthirster3,200gThe Bloodthirster, and it finishes the game at 30 stacks.

  • 6

    Phantom Dancer2,800gPhantom Dancer, chosen out loud from a list he offers chat.

  • 7

    Statikk Shiv2,500gStatikk Shiv, the one he keeps coming back to — {*|I could get the static shiv} — and does buy.

  • 8

    Last Whisper2,300gLast Whisper, once the Cho'Gath in front of him is a tank with a Frozen Heart.

  • 9

    Youmuu's Ghostblade2,700gYoumuu's Ghostblade is in the first slot at the end of the game. Where it goes in the order is the one purchase he never says out loud.

Situationalonly when the game asks for it

  • Sword of the Occult1,200gSword of the Occult, which he calls genius in hindsight and then argues himself out of: the kills funded Infinity Edge instead.

  • Madred's Bloodrazor3,800gMadred's Bloodrazor is what he bought the first game and tells you to skip: {*|you don't need Madred's, that's the beauty of jungling.}

  • Frozen Mallet3,300gFrozen Mallet gets floated as a joke while he is already ahead, and never bought.

Notes

the author's own words

Twitch Jungle

A gank pick that never stops ganking. Twitch Q — Ambush first, red buff, and walk at people from the fog — {*|you can just infinitely gank players, and they have no idea what to do about it.} The game it comes from ends 33/8 with a penta and more kills than the enemy team had between them.

Skip Madred's Bloodrazor. He built it the game before and says so repeatedly: the poison does the damage, and the jungle does not need the item. What he wants instead is attack damage early — his own correction is to open Long Sword rather than Hunter's Machete, so a level-2 gank actually kills.

Explorer's Ward sits in the B slot from minute one and is never swapped out. Twitch's whole plan dies to one Oracle's Elixir, so the vision is not optional — it is how he finds out whether the next gank is a gank or a death.

The boots come off at the end. He finishes on Youmuu's Ghostblade, Last Whisper, Infinity Edge, Statikk Shiv, The Bloodthirster and Phantom Dancer — six damage items and no movement speed at all, with Berserker's Greaves sold to pay for the last of them.

Read off a 24-minute game, so two things are missing: the rune page and the mastery page, which champion select names — "Attack Speed" and "Mastery Page 2" — and never opens.

Build by Cowsep, transcribed from his League Classic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPx1IjogJT4