User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Counerjungling part one./@comment-5266525-20130104142156

Counterjungling is not just a matter of putting yourself ahead, it's about putting them behind.

Sure, I could probably have done my wraiths and D. golems in the time it takes to do theirs, but they can't do their wraiths either now. I've effectively gained two wraith camps' worth of XP up on them.

I have more or less permanently removed junglers like Fiddlesticks and Hecarim from the game because of my constant efforts just stealing camps, resulting in them accruing an insurmountable level disadvantage. Even just losing their first red buff can be a serious blow as that's a huge chunk of their early XP gone.

Fighting them also works - even if I don't kill them, I've just wasted a lot of their time having to go back to the fountain while I happily steal all his stuff. And if I do ever manage to successfully kill them, I've just gained a huge bonus which pays off any risk of going into their jungle in the first place. Even if I die afterwards, they're still behind.