League of Legends Jungle – Effect of Not Fully Clearing Creeps

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Supposedly you can harass the enemy jungle a little by killing the valuable creeps in a jungle pack and leaving one of the cheap minions around to delay a full respawn. How does this work exactly? If I see a solo minion up at one of our buffs, should I kill it or let it be? Is there a difference between leaving two minions up and coming back later and killing another to delay a buff/respawn?

Best Answer

A given camp will not respawn unless ALL of it's creeps in that camp is first dead. Only then will the respawn timer start up.

If it's a camp on your side of the jungle that has only one creep left, make sure to kill that creep so that camp actually respawns.

A great way to counter jungle is to steal all of the creeps except for one of the small creeps per camp. The enemy jungle will have to kill that creep and wait the full respawn time for the camp to come back.

Jungle Timers

 Camp        |  Spawn  | Respawn
-------------+---------+---------
 Wolves      |   1:55  |   0:50
 Wraiths     |   1:55  |   0:50
 Golems      |   1:55  |   0:50
 Blue Golem  |   1:55  |   5:00
 Red Lizard  |   1:55  |   5:00
 Dragon      |   2:30  |   6:00
 Baron       |  15:00  |   7:00
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