League Of Legends

I typically prefer to jungle as Noct (though my experience with him is limited, so take this advice with a grain of salt), starting in a normal jungle rotation and poking my head out to harass lanes until around level 6.

If you can score kills before then, great, but if not, then your ultimate combined with a frozen mallet on any champion lower than 50% is essentially a guaranteed kill. While you're busy building the mallet, red buff in conjunction with your Q and E can be an effective way of getting the job done, but seeing as you need to catch up to and stay near the enemy in order to land your E's fear, it's a bit tricky to do without some form of slow.

Due to the fact that Noct has to dive face first into the enemy with his ultimate, building a nice blend of survivability and damage is a pretty solid idea.
If memory serves, my typical build went something to the effect of...

Machete + Potions
Madred's, Boots
Frozen Mallet

And then, depending on the situation, pick up a mix of offense and defense in order to suit your needs. A few items I found to be helpful were:

Offense: Ravenous Hydra, Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster
Defense: Warmog's, Maw of Malmortius, Randuin's Omen

Where more often than not, Mallet and one of the defensive items provided ample survivability to get ganks when I needed to without too much risk of dying, but sometimes building a second may be warranted.


When teamfights begin to occur, be sure to have a sight on the enemy's ADC or other squishy before your team engages, then ultimate in from the side. Hit them with your fear, and in most cases, you should be able to finish them off before things get messy.


Just my two cents; be sure to check out a few guides online if you're really interested in hearing what other people have to say. As noted, my experience is fairly limited, so I could be mistaken as to which items will prove most effective in a complete build, but mallet is a pretty solid take to synergize with your R>E.