Reign of Gaming

In the past, I've created an All About: Experience Gain article and it went quite successfully. To reboot the series, today I will be bringing to you, 'All About: Neutral Monsters'.

For a long time, the jungle and its monsters have been a source of confusion for many players as they opt to learn more about laning and its many nuances. Information of neutral monsters is not only difficult to collect, but a long and tedious task. There is much information available within the LoL Wiki but all too often, that information is inaccurate and cannot be relied on. 

Thanks to the help of a number of volunteers (especially Redditors), today I've managed to collect a lot of information on various beasts of the jungle and here I present the information to you in a set of infographics that I hope you  will find useful. There's even a free wallpaper for your use at the bottom - Enjoy it!

Note: If you see any information here that differs from the LoL Wiki, it is because the following values are up-to-date whereas the Wiki may not. Notably, the HP and Damage values of Baron/Dragon are inaccurate on the LoL Wiki at this point.

 The video version of the article can be seen below however, the written form I believe provides more detail for today's post. 

Read on for the detailed written version!

The Small Camps

If you've looked through these infographics, you may notice that I've taken the liberty of calculating the expected Total Damage per Second you can expect to take from each camp. This value takes into account the multiple monsters in each camp as well as critical chance. Importantly, the damage per second value does not take into account resistances, so in reality, you would be taking around two thirds of that damage value depending on your armor.

Most interesting fact from here is that the double golem camp is the most brutal. We'll see how it compares to the buffs in just a second.

The Buff Camps

As you can see, the damage from the double golem camp is almost as high as the buff camps. However - it has to be noted that the monsters in the double golem camp are easier to kill and you'll end up taking less damage because it takes a shorter time to clear the camp.

Now that the damage and health of each camp has been listed, let's take a look at the XP and gold they each give.

Gold and XP

Interesting Notes

• The Wraith Camp gives the most XP but the least gold.
• The buffs scale at 2.5XP/minute which is not too significant. I've made this chart to reflect values at spawn - which is when these values matter most.
• The Ancient Golem (Blue buff) gives more XP than the Lizard Elder (Red Buff) but the camps give the same gold overall.
• The Double Golems actually provides a decent amount of gold, so if you're running near by it and there's nothing else of value doing at that time. Kill the golems!

Global Objectives

Interesting points:

• Something to know is that the person who is tanking dragon has their attack speed debuffed by 20%. So never ever let your AD carry tank it if you can help it. 
• Curiously, the HP of dragon scales off the level of the champion highest in the game. So don't judge the difficulty of dragon purely by time alone, take a quick gander at the highest level champion in the game at the moment.
• Dragon cannot be debuffed or CC'd in any way similarly to Baron Nashor

Interesting notes about Baron Nashor

Conclusion

There's not much to be concluded here - since this is more of a resourceful and informative post as opposed to new information. However, I highly recommend you look at the Baron graphic in detail to learn more about him as you may learn something new. I've gone ahead and made a wallpaper for you guys to use. The resolution is 1920x1080 - and it's the Baron graphics spaced out nicely for your viewing pleasure. Click on the thumbnail to get the full view!

And for those of you who prefer imgur album mirrors: http://imgur.com/a/qxVCs 

You are free to use any of these graphics wherever you like, all I ask is that you link back to the original article (ie. here) and credit me accordingly :)

I hope you guys enjoyed this article. Leave your feedback below - would you like to see more articles with infographics such as above or do simple tables satisfy your info cravings better? This was one of the posts I've worked a long time on and was really excited to get out to you guys - it was honestly one of my most enjoyable projects :)

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