Can you jungle in Dota

[Kalvix]

Hi,

Basically currently play LoL in the jungle but it's becoming entirely impossible to enjoy that game as they are to determined to force you to have a 50% win rate leading to loads of matches you have 0% chance of winning.

The main thing keeping me from Dota has always been the lack of a jungle as I'm not a huge fan of laning honestly, whenever I try to look up jungling in Dota it seems like it's on and off if its even possible to do it let alone a good role though so never took the leap.

[Zagryzaec]

Jungling in DotA is very different from jungling in lol and currently strongly off meta

[K0vaL1ski]

Красавчик играй дальше в доту 2

[Absche]

Dota2 get streamlined quite strongly recently by forcing people into given roles. You may be acquainted to that from playing LoL. Jungling is not one of the given roles. Although there are some dedicated heroes and the actual map and neutral item drops from jungle creeps allow for jungling it may lead to conflict with some tryhards in solo queue. But playing with friends would allow for jungling, in particular if you can communicate well with your team and optimize the gold and exp farming over the entire map (you can share the neutral creep item drops!)

[Mecenas Kaszewiak]

Jungling exist in Dota 2 but it's not done from the start. It's done by most farming carries/mid laners that increase their gpm by jungling in a meanwhile when their mid lane is pushed. In LoL jungle camps are equivalent to gold and exp that you can get from solo lane in Dota 2 they give less gold and exp so they are good as an addition but not as main source of income.

So there is no straight answer because jungling exists but it's completely different concept than in LoL. If you want to jungle from the start LoL is the game for you. Unfortunately you cannot skip laning phase in Dota 2 as IceFrog is putting strong focus on it.

[Popoken]

You can actually skip the laning phase to just jungle but it would be in your detriment as neutral items only appear after 7 min have passed. It used to be viable and there were a few heroes that could jungle and come out fully equipped or at least ready to initiate.

[mimizukari]

dota 2 doesn't have jungling as part of meta rn. so no.

[76561198863268745]

actual snowflakes comments lel. just go range cliff jungling and let ur huskar solo his lane. ez ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ win

[Mecenas Kaszewiak]

Originally posted by DP:

actual snowflakes comments lel. just go range cliff jungling and let ur huskar solo his lane. ez ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ win

Huskar is extremely weak on his first 2 levels. Especially 2v1. It's just selfish way of playing and refusing to play role you are actually assigned to.