- Jungle
Camp patience is a hidden meter that drains when a monster is dragged beyond its leash range or cannot reach its target. When it hits zero the camp resets and heals. Managing it means pulling camps right up to the edge of the ring without ever running it out.
What it is
Monsters stay at their camp until attacked. Once aggroed, a monster follows the nearest champion, judged by walking distance, and each camp has a maximum distance it will follow before it starts to lose patience. That distance is the leash range, and a ring shows it around the camp for you when you start a fight. The ring fades if the camp is not attacked and returns when you hit again. Its size differs from camp to camp.
Patience drains when a monster is outside the ring, and also when it cannot find its target, for example because you went stealthed. It drains faster the further out it is and the less it is being hit there. Non-epic monsters also lose patience when they switch targets, and can switch about six times before it is gone. Small monsters copy the patience of their large monster while it is alive and within 700 units.
At zero, the camp enters a soft reset for six seconds. It walks back to its camp, heals a share of its maximum health every second and ignores you until it is back inside the ring. If you attack it while it is inside the ring, the soft reset ends early, it regains some patience and cannot lose any for a short moment. If six seconds pass instead, it hard resets: it ignores everyone, heals much faster and runs home. It regains its patience a couple of seconds after it arrives.
The word leash also means something else in jungle talk. Asking for a leash means asking a teammate to help with your first camp. On Summoner's Rift that is the top or bottom laner, since the mid laner's minions arrive sooner. This trades some lane tempo for a faster, safer first clear.
How to do it
- Learn each camp's ring
Hit a camp and look at the ring that appears. Rings differ per camp, and their centres sit offset from the camp's spawn point so there is room to move. The ring is the limit for the monsters, not for you.
- Pull the monsters, not yourself
Walk toward your next camp with the monsters following. Pick the route so that they stay inside the ring until the large monster is dead. The ring is also where the fight should end, not begin.
- Keep hitting at the edge
Patience drains faster the less a monster is attacked while it is out of range. If you must stand near the limit, keep attacking, so the loss is as slow as possible.
- Do not trade aggro
Each time a non-epic monster changes target, it loses patience. So avoid aggro swapping between you and an ally, or between you and a summoned unit, when a camp is already near its limit. This is advice drawn from the retargeting rule, not a separate game mechanic.
- Step back in when it resets
If a camp starts a soft reset, walk back toward its camp so it is inside the ring, and hit it. That cancels the soft reset and stops further patience loss for a moment. Waiting means the camp heals and then hard resets, running home and ignoring you.
- Ask for a leash when you need one
If your champion struggles to clear the first camp, ask the top or bottom laner to hit it with you. Tell them when to stop, because they are leaving their lane. Once the camp is half dead, you can finish it alone.
Watch it
What to watch for: From 0:32, the Hidden Patience chapter. Watch how the camp is pulled relative to its leash ring.
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Common mistakes
- You chase a monster that is running away. During a reset it ignores you until it is back inside the ring, so stop and let it come back, or hit it only once it is inside.
- You walk out of the ring to start your next camp early. The monsters follow and lose patience. Finish the large monster before you leave the ring.
- You change targets constantly with a teammate. Each change costs patience, so decide who has aggro and keep it there.
- You stealth or vanish while a camp is on you. A monster that cannot find its target also loses patience, so stay visible until the large monster is dead.
- You assume the camp is full health after a reset begins. It heals while it walks back, so do not count on its health bar from before.
Practice drill
- In a custom game on Summoner's Rift, hit a camp and walk slowly away until the camp starts a reset. Note how far from the ring you got. Then repeat, turning back in before the reset starts.
- Clear the same camp three times, ending each fight with the monsters still inside the ring. Success is killing the large monster without ever seeing it run back.