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Aracchne is by far the best jungler. She has the quickest clear time, takes the least damage from jungle buffs early game and great gank potential early game. The new jungle benefits her greatly. However, if you don't capitalize on her strong early, to early-mid game with successful ganks and counter-jungling, she falls off really hard in the mid to late game and is the reason she's not used in the competitive scene.

Second to that is Bakasura. With Baka's eat minion ability to heal and speed boost, he is ideal for clearing jungle camps quickly. Baka also has decent ganking ability in the early to mid game. The problem with Baka is that if you can create a little separation between him and yourself, he becomes useless. Baka's damage relies on being basically on top of the enemy to do damage and as more gods come out with more cc abilities and speed up abilities, it's becoming easier to create that needed separation, thus making Baka harder to play.

Third would be Fenrir. With his claws doing AoE damage to the jungle camps, he's able to clear them quickly and with ease. Fenrir also has great gank potential through the whole game. His overall kit is one of the best in the game, with a too good combination of cc, high damage, and escapes. Fenrir drops off slightly late game, but nowhere near as bad as the other assassins drop off. For the reasons described, Fenrir is currently highly valued and used often in competitive play as a jungler.

Keep in mind that the list above are in my opinion the best junglers in terms of their ability to clear jungle camps, not necessarily the best junglers for competitive play. The best junglers for competitive play are:

1. Fenrir
2. Hun Batz
3. Thor

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I love Aarachne jungle. Her low level ganks are so powerful.

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I have to honestly say that since I've been playing Smite, Arachne is the all-reigning champ of junglers. She has a high-risk/high-reward gank style that is nearly uncounterable and inescapable if done correctly.

I see a lot of people say she falls off late game, but I simply don't see how she does. I've never had issue with her late game. If you're interested in my playstyle/tips, check out my jungling Arachne guide!

https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/arachne-skitter-through-the-jungle-2837

Unfortunately it's a little wall-of-texty, as it's my first guide, but it will be improved upon.

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Ne Zha can clear jungle camps with ease, he is easily one of the best junglers once you get the ring toss up.

I was playing with kali a little bit ago because I never play her, I went 12/2 in arena but then went into conquest to jungle with her went 6/3 because of mah nub team.

How is kali as jungle? I started of with my 2 then 3 maxing them both back and forth and my ult when I can. I put a few points into my 1 after I got my 2 and 3 up a bit.
I don't know how to play kali jungle though, I tried to build her with more power for her ult instead of dps on basic attacks.

I guess it worked though.

I'd have to say Ne Zha is top too as in clearly camps.

I want to know how good kali is since I don't see her much.

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For me the criteria is Jungle Clear, Jungle Control, and Ganking ability through out the match. Some gods are incredible in one or two categories, but no one god has all 3 in my opinion.

Arachne is capable of having the strongest Jungle Control thanks to egg placement and quick 1v1 destruction in the jungle. She arguably has the best early in the game and the worst late next to Bastet. With a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling, Arachne can be a scary force or stuff of nightmares. If you can land every ult then Arachne is the scariest early game god there is, but damn is it hard to land every ult. With the correct planning and reaction, all of Arachne's Kit can cause good situations for herself and her teammates, and bad ones for the other team. She can still be useful in the late game through egg warding, objective capture, team slow, and pulling; but unless she catches someone separated, killing is not what she's meant to do late game.

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Fenrir has a weak early, but once he gets a couple levels in he can clear very quickly. For ganking the mid or solo lane, he's incredibly effective; and he can do it without his ult sometimes, but the ult makes it almost a sure thing.

Hun Batz jungle clear is okay the first few levels as well, but he has great damage and that ult of his makes him capable of making it a bad day for more than 1 god at a time. Ganking is definitely his strength and he can get doubles consistently.

Ne Zha can clear a jungle very fast thanks to their ring toss and basic attack burst. They can gank effectively with their sash as a gap closer and ult for killing or escaping as needed. Because Ne Zha has an easy time clearing camps, they are able to stay in level with everyone else even if they fail ganks, which will happen since all of their abilities are skill shots. Ne Zha is capable of soloing the Gold Fury and Fire Giant fairly well thanks to their DPS from their two. Their only weakness is jungle control, they can kill quickly and move around quickly as well, but a few other junglers can do it better. To stay in level with everyone Ne Zha just needs their jungle, to get ahead they can do it well through ganks.

Vulcan is capable of being King of Jungle, he has potentially the best adaptability to any situation. He can set and forget his towers at one jungle camp while hammering down another; allowing him to take two camps at the same time. He's also capable of defending a lane to relieve a teammate while still jungling. He can come out and defend or attack two places at once thanks to his towers and his higher level, thanks to his fast jungle clear. Vulcan's only weakness is his weak gank potential; it requires catching the enemy god off gaurd, them willing to stick around to fight you in front of your tower, creeping curse, and landing your 1.

Tyr right now is pretty ridiculous, he can clear a jungle camp very fast thanks to his combo and how hard his basic attack hits, and he can gank with his combo quite easily. Currently Tyr has a low skill floor in jungling; as long as you don't miss your 1 or mess up your combo you will do fine. If he puts himself in a bad spot, he can switch to defense and run away or ult out. He can also use his ult for ambushing and better positioning. His damage scales very well and he's capable of being an imposing force from early to late. Even if he makes mistakes and dies once or twice, thanks to his damage he can kill enemy gods with up to 5 levels above him without much trouble. His only weakness is Jungle Control since he can only be at one place at a time and he isn't a very fast god; but he doesn't need to control the jungle. Because of how quickly Tyr can kill camps and other gods almost regardless of level, he doesn't need to bother with holding the jungle; he's capable of holding the whole map.

Jungle Thor can be a very effective force for the entire match, he can clear well and his ult is great for leading a gank; but my problem with him isn't him but players with him. If Thor doesn't get a gank early or clear the jungle efficiently, he falls behind the entire match and becomes a hinderance to his team. To me he arguably has the highest skill floor when it comes to jungling; he does have a very strong late game that helps him through if the other team is using an early jungler.

Baka's a great jungler thanks to his eat, passive, and true damage; but if the other team is full of escapes, then he becomes useless pretty fast.

Bastet's a great jungler because all of her abilities burst which is great for clearing and ganking; but those dang cats can be a hinderance by body blocking or being too slow to reach the target, also Bastet's late game is not so good.

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If you ask me, i find the best to be arachne, hebo, hel and thor. They al have great dmg and awesome gank potential. Too good to pass up.

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If you ask me, i find the best to be arachne, hebo, hel and thor. They al have great dmg and awesome gank potential. Too good to pass up.

Hel has great gank potential? She doesn't have a jump/dive (, , etc), she doesn't have a *big* CC move, and her damage if she isn't building full MP/ in late game is meh.

Like, she has stupid sustain but I wouldn't call her the best by far.

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