HOW TO JUNGLE?
The good thing was, that once you hit Level 3 with Ophelia jungling becames a lot easier. This has changed since the last 2 patches, because you need at least Level 5 to get 2 creeps now. But until then, this guide is still accurate, you just need to farm a lot longer with just one minion.
The question is where to start on Level 1, and what to do if your minion is to fragile to survive until the second one "arrives". Just keep in mind that if the enemy have a hero that will probably jungle in their woods, you can really mess up their farm. Just swing your sexy ass over to the enemy woods and start dominating bosscreeps & harassing the enemy. It's pretty easy to counter, but if they don't send backup from the lane, you'll go crazy on their side of the jungle.
Legion
This is where you'll start out. The first creepcamps spawn at 0:30 and after that every full minute (4:00 for example), but only if there are no corpses lying in the camp (they take around 11 seconds to disappear, keep that in mind!) and the spot isn't blocked with wards.
What you'll do is that after you've dominated the leader of the first camp (always dominate the strongest creeps in the camp, and only take over the creeps mentioned above!) and kill as much as you can with him. After the second camp (the yellow one) you'll hit Level 2 and if you can manage to kill the second orange one (depends on the spawns of course) you'll hit Level 3 and are good to go. 2 minions are all you need for jungling without a problem. Just pull them back before they die and use their skills if you have a Catman Champion or a Vagabond Leader, because they inflict around 100 damage.
If you're only level 2 and your creep is going to die at the second orange camp, just dominate whatever boss creep is standing there.
Hellbourne
Except for the different starting spot, the tactic stays actually the same. Dominate the orange creepcamp boss and try to extinct as much camps as possible with it.
I actually prefer the Hellbourne jungle over the Legion one, because you can farm better. If you're wiping through the jungle you can use the river to do a nice circle, where as in the Legion one you actually have to walk back for a million minutes to reach the outter orange camp where you start out.
HOW TO PULL CREEPCAMPS?
Neutral pulling is an awesome strategy. The guy that is soloing on the lane attached to the jungle can easily farm a neutral camp, your creeps may die due to tanking one of the neutrals, which means less XP for your enemies and you prevent your lane from being pushed to hard. But how to do it?
Legion
This is the camp you're pulling down towards the creeps. What you'll basically do is to hit one of the neutrals and run back to the lane so your creeps will attack them and follow them back into the jungle. You can do this between x:14 - x:16 and x:44-x:46. If you time it right, you and your mate are in for some free gold.
1. Hit & run!
2. Pull them to your lane
3. Get back into their camp, deny your creeps, last hit the Neutrals.
Hellbourne
The only thing that changes is the creepcamp and maybe the timing is one second off on the Hellbourne side. But other than that it's exactly the same.
1. Hit them
2. Pull them to your creeps and get back to the camp
3. PROFIT!
HOW TO USE OPHELIA
If you want to set up a gank in the early game, wait for your enemies to push. If they've pushed far enough to your tower, now it's your time to strike.
1. Apply Nature's Wrath
2. This is what it looks like when your enemy is debuffed
3. Get in with your Minions and start doing damage. Don't forget their skills!
4. ????
5. Profit! (which means a kill, or even better, an assist)
HOW TO TOWER PUSH?
1. Push the lane with your Minions and attack/tank the tower
2. Pull the Neutral that's about to die back and let your creeps/your other Minions tank!
3. If the health of all of your minions hits a critical state and the tower still isn't down, cast your ultimate to get them up to full health! Yes, tower pushes early game are THAT important, you're allowed to "waste" your Ultimate like that!
HOW TO SOLO KONGOR!
What do you need? Unlike in the earlier versions where Level 6 would've sufficed, you now need Level 7 so you can get Command on 4 to dominate 3 Creeps. Besides that you need your Ultimate & a few Auras from maybe Refreshing Ornament and Shield of the Five might help.
So what you're basically aiming for is to let your creeps tank Kongor and pull them back as soon as they're low. Do that with all 3 of them and then use your Ultimate. And don't forget to use that Shield of the Five if you have it, it gives +2 Armor! An Astrolabe or a Puzzlebox would help too, but you're fine with these lower tier items.
If you're doing it right, the following will happen:
OPHELIA'S FRIENDS!
Basically all the heroes that are good pushers are your friends. Why? Because the enemy towers will fall like nothing over your awesome pushingpower! Also Engineer with Tinker will result in crazy pushes early on!
OPHELIA'S ENEMIES!
There are not that many enemies around, but basically they're nukers and/or Behemoth and Legionnaire. Nukers can bring you or your creeps down easily and Legionnaire will just port in and taunt you and your creeps for Maximum Whirling Blades.
And Behemoth's Ultimate... I don't think that I have to mention it will totally kill you. You will even die after you're dead from all the damage it will deal.
+ Nukers. But there are too many to list them all.
REPLAYS!
For now there's only one replay, but I'll make sure to add more.
ID
2306854 (SD 1500, with players ranging from 1500 to 1600)
Quite a good replay. Nothing special, but it shows ganks and a lot of jungling with just one creep. There's also an early Kongor kill in it and the use of a Puzzlebox.
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