I added some tags on the youtube page for those that are interested and updated some of the categories.  You can find past in house games and full game vids on the front page.  Take a look if that's something you like watching from time to time:  http://www.youtube.com/user/LeagueOfPacov

Terrible guide.  It recommends you start with machete and 5 pots.

http://www.probuilds.net/champions/Nocturne 

As you can see here, every loss with Nocturne had people starting with machete and 5 pots.  Obviously a bad starting choice of items because Diamond+ players occasionally lose with them, like they sometimes lose when buying Aegis.

anyone have vod links to the games you are referring to?  Not sure if it was best of 3 and its game 2, etc.  thx.

If your sarcasm makes me say wtf if he trying to say, you are doing it wrong.  Probably shouldn't be doing it at all at this point... thanks for the quality feedback at least.

longest thought filled post pacov has made on the internet accidentally deleted.  fml. 

Shortest summary with little to no context begins - swan/brad wong - bust my balls a little in game due to f-ups, fine.  Bust my balls repeatedly for 20 minutes - kindly go fuck off.  Seriously - fuck off.  2nd - hedgie - really like him - he busts my balls accordingly but is also great at helping me calm the fug down and think out how to improve as a player.  No one else I know does that.  3rd - thunder - enough of your passive aggressive bullshit please.  I had the longest section about this, but the short version is that you very often bust my balls on the forum and are a kind fellow when we talk.  Be consistent.  Not a fan of pointless ball busting posts when you could be helpful as a pal.  You are a really solid player and I'd be so much better if I had any actual feedback instead of bullshit posts like this:

Would love if you tried to be more of a pal and less of this.  I'll still post to my silly little blog without you.  I'm sure you can find something else to do if the best you can offer is jabs at me.  Would really prefer for your feedback.  Bust my balls accordingly, but please offer more useful stuff as well. 

Ok then - onto the topic of triaging a lane.  We had some decent discussion re: this after our last game and I wanted to reiterate some of my thoughts/what folks said and then see if anyone has some additional feedback. 

Triage in LoL - Definition

The actual definition of triage is the following: "the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors."  In league of legends, when we say triage, we mean that a jungler/mid should cease actively ganking a lane for a period of time.  The reason for a call like this is because we believe that a particular lane will not produce results (due to arse whooping most likely) and that ganks would be better focused on other lanes that are doing well or have a much higher percent chance of producing results.  I think the way we use the term is a bit of a fallacy, though.  It's a quick way of saying I'm not going to be ganking your lane - you are on your own; however, triage really means prioritization.  I'm going to prioritize another lane in favor of your lane due to circumstances.  In that case, triage is really the active process of being a jungler.  The jungler prioritizes objectives based on lane status, etc.  So, having said and thought through that, we'd actually be better off not saying "triage bot lane" as that doesn't make consistent sense with the definition (even though we all have a basic shared understanding of what is meant by that statement). 

Considerations for No Longer Ganking a Lane

So, moving away from calling for a "triage," I think we should some about reasons for stopping actively ganking for a lane.  And I'd like to add that everything in the post is really me trying to improve as a jungler and think more about prioritization and also think through instances where someone else might call for no more ganks on a lane.  I also want to add that I'm intentionally trying to move away from the term triage as that, as illustrated in our game last night, meant something a bit different to me than it did to karl.  So - 1st thing, I don't think we should ever take ceasing gank support of a lane lightly.  It would be best if we had some set criteria for making a decision to triage.  Here are my thoughts.

• Statistics - while you typically know if a lane is going poorly for someone, pressing tab often reveals the extent of the problem. 
• Visual information - when you glance over the map, you see the ward locations along with their timers, the current health of the champions in combat, etc.  These are all queues that should influence whether or not to move in for a gank
• Verbal information - players can ask for assistance or request that the jungler dedicates their time elsewhere. 

Here are some additional considerations:

• How successful do you believe a gank will be based on the information?
• If a bot lane is struggling, is your presence, even if not ganking but simply threatening, worth the time to camp?
• Can the lane hold the tower without jungle assistance?
• What objectives will be lost without jungle assistance?
• What does the team stand to gain due to jungle assistance?
• And last - visible jungle presence in a lane often results in the enemy jungle/mid making an appearance to support the laners when the jungler has been seen.  A jungler's precence helps and hurts in this aspect.

One of the things I had a problem with last night was when karl called for a triage of bot lane.  I'm working on my jungle skillset and karl's a good jungler, so I say OK - triaged.  Which in my mind meant (at the time) no ganks - focus attention elsewhere.  This is a poor decision on my part. Had I interpreted his request as simply prioritize other lanes instead of write off his lane, things would have probably gone MUCH better.  Additionally, playing this way lost us blue buff/dragon control (karl was not in a position to get out and ward due to the pressure on bot lane) and was just riddled with misplays by me.

Here's what I'm still trying to figure out.  In that game in particular, I still think it might have been wise for me to have more of a presence bot lane either via camping a bit or just routinely tossing out pink wards here and there.  I think that's how I should have played it.  re: camping - I think that also would have been beneficial for the bot lane to remove some pressure here and there.  Instead, I exuded zero pressure bot lane during the laning phase which I think was pretty detrimental.  Anyway, that said, I should have had a stronger presence overall and made better decisions like rushing aegis for the team. 

Anyway, all I have time to write about now.  Any thoughts or feedback?

as someone who worked in wildlife rehabilitation for a few years, it surprises me sometimes that people don't actually know what "triage"means. 

You have your patients that have a 0% chance of recovery.

You have your patients who have a low-medium chance of recovery with a lot of work (but will die/be crippled otherwise)

You have your patients with a high chance of recovery with a lot of work (but will die/be crippled otherwise)

You have your patients with a high chance of recovery with medium work (but will die/be crippled otherwise)

You have your patient that are are only mildly afflicted - it wouldn't take a lot of work to "recover" them but even if you neglect them entirely they'll survive.

This system was developed because medics have limited time and resources. Stonewall, however, is the one who came off with "triage" is more equal to "amputate". "You should amputate top lane because it is totally lost".

(btw: i really don't like a lot of Stonewall. i think he is a pessimistic player who writes a lot of anti-teamwork commentary that other people use to justify their actions. i think "triage" is one of those things)

The analogy also doesn't work in some ways because League isn't "quarantined" like a hospital. If you don't deal with "Patient 0" the Zombie Apocalypse will spread. Additionally, camping lanes that are already slightly ahead/drawn to get them fed ... well that analogy doesn't work with "triage" either, unless we talk about Steroids. 

One of the big struggles about learning Jungle is that it is really hard to know if you did the right/wrong thing until the game is over. 

I made an audio clip of some of our triage discussion from the end of our last game of the night in case its of interest to anyone - http://www.twitch.tv/1pacov1/c/2507803

wow... last game of Demigod I played was roughly 2 years ago today. 

I don't see what's wrong in the picture.  It's just a passionate guy picking berries for the greater good of his people.  Look at the dedication on that guy to get the job done!  Man's a hero.

Was yesterday karl's b-day?  I had something pop up on one of my calendars.  If so, sorry... those team games were a bit of a let down.

So, I haven't played ranked in a bit and got back into it briefly yesterday.  Went 1/1.  Dealt with a little ranked anxiety, so I'm going to flesh out some thoughts here.

First, I only play ranked if I'm in the mood for it and typically if no one else is on or just 1 other pal that also enjoys playing ranked games is on.  I also factor in elo decay, so I've got that "you lose elo" in X days thing in my head.  I was about 20 days away from elo decay up until yesterday.  If I'm going to take an elo decay penalty, I just get a game in to avoid that and then move along. 

So, that stated, I don't like to play ranked games when I'm still figuring out things.  By that, I'm trying to increase my skill as a jungler and want to play jungle, but I don't think I'm consistent enough to do that.  I actually put a lot of thought into things before playing ranked.  As I don't feel solid atm with how I'm jungling, I'm not as apt to do so.  Regardless, hunnybadger is on and we queue up for ranked.  I end up 2nd pick; hunny is last pick.  I ask him if he had anything in mind for what role he'd like us to shoot for.  He wants me to go jungle, so I go for it.  He, however, ends up support... and he's not really a great support... but he's last pick so that's that.  Anyway, I have a pretty sub freaking par game and things don't come together.  I'm running ghost on voli... and I'm against a kennen, a nidalee, an amumu, a janna, and some adc.  Everyone is doing their warding, so ganks are a pain in the ass + the champs have natural abilities to disengage or get folks out.  I was 2nd pick and one typically doesn't hide a voli pick, but it was a really rough setup to get anything good done.  And we had a forever farm ez.  Anyway, we eventually lose the game.  We had an aatrox on our team that was doing pretty great, but outside of that, lots of failure. We lacked strong initiate while they had both poke and initiate. 

Game 2 - hunny and I are last pick.  I offer to fill with every intention of playing support instead of hunny.  He ends up running jungle hecarim.  I go support leona working with a vayne.  The vayne is pretty solid, but didn't push for a creep wave reset, so we actually ended up in a position close enough to their tower that I couldn't safely initiate.  Kind of crap positioning as it kept me super broke as I couldn't really do a heck of a lot or secure kills.  I actually think it was pretty bad to keep a wave of creeps where she did (kept us pushed and gankable and didn't allow me any opportunity to initiate without tower diving.  That said, she was great about getting damage on trist while she pressured them.  Anyway, we eventually win the game.  There were some really great moves by our annie at one point with vayne and how she turned.  We had a semi competent shen that had some nice ults here and there.  And my vayne's mechanical skill was pretty strong.  Just not sure why she played the laning phase the way she did. 

Anyway, after that we got into normal games with pals.  Game 1 was feeding gp top, following by ks gp, followed by us getting stomped.  Game 2 was also kind of bad and disappointing.  Felt like I under performed quite a bit yesterday.  My performance as ranked jungle was like low siliver skill level imo.  I did much better as support, but I was at a disadvantage some in lane and lower money due to the vayne denying me the opportunity to get us some early kills.  Think I did a decent job overall, though - just a bit money starved due to laning decisions.  Vayne ran the lane, though, and got results come end game.

Copying some info from reddit as it might not be commonly known.

Counterjungle the Amumu.  You will murder him 1v1 and as long as minions are down, he doesn't have an easy escape.  In cases like that you aren't really looking to just steal buffs, but you want to chase the Amumu around too.

I'm not really talking about an initial level 2 or level 3 invade.  There should be ganks available (hopefully) at that point.

I'm talking more about later in the game (maybe starting when buffs respawn).  If the ganks aren't there, just try and steal blue at 7:10 and wander around his red side a bit later.  You can try and kill Amumu if you see him, or just gimp all his camps and gank from a weird angle if you don't see him.