Talk:Nocturne/@comment-4578813-20120104064057/@comment-62.163.167.91-20120110135055

^ Well there are several reasons and solutions for falling behind. The biggest reason is because jungling alone simply doesn't give enough XP compared to lanes (at least that was the reason I kept falling behind). Now the solutions are 1) Gank early and gank a lot, enough to gain the XP you need to keep up 2) Use the XP bonus in the masteries and/or XP runes. Personally I now jungle with the utility tree with nocture, it makes the jungle slower but you can easily keep up even if there are no ganking opportunities.

That said, I've recently started jungling with malph and I tried all jungle masteries on him (2/12/16) taking "butcher", "bladed armor" and "awareness" and I have to say it's very good. I'm just steamrolling through the jungle like malph was never intended for anything else (while the tests I did before with Utility and Defense trees were only "meh"). So yeah, try those masteries on nocture and I'm sure you'll jungle fast enough to keep up with everyone (assuming you got a decent route).