A gank arc is the stretch of games — or even a single match — where a player is on an unstoppable ambush rampage that seems to have its own dramatic narrative structure.
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To ambush an enemy player — usually in a lane, usually as a jungler coming out of fog. A well-timed gank is the backbone of a MOBA early game.
The story arc of a player — or occasionally a streamer or pro — during which their gameplay deteriorates so badly, so publicly, and so consistently that observers begin narrating it as a character development. The int arc is watched with fascination: each death builds the lore, each terrible decision adds a chapter. The arc framing implies it has a beginning, a chaotic middle, and an eventual resolution — usually either a ban, a public breakdown, or an unexpected comeback that redeems the whole thing cinematically.
Gank mode is the mental and strategic state a jungler enters when they decide that farming camps is for cowards and the real fun is in terrorizing every lane on the map. In gank mode, the minimap becomes a hunt, every enemy out of position becomes a target, and the jungle player pings their movement so frequently the team starts to feel like they're being coached by a very enthusiastic predator. Gank mode can be called on demand or activated involuntarily after an enemy taunts in chat.
A gank arc is the stretch of games — or even a single match — where a player is on an unstoppable ambush rampage that seems to have its own dramatic narrative structure. There's a beginning (first successful gank), a rising tension (enemy team starts over-warding), a climax (somehow ganks through four wards anyway), and a falling action (the enemy jungler resigns themselves to being outclassed). Fans of streamer content especially use gank arc to describe legendary highlight periods that deserve a recap.
That was a five-game gank arc where he just dismantled every opposing laner — someone clip the whole thing.
A gank fail is the deeply humiliating sequence of events in which a jungler tries to execute an ambush and everything falls apart — the target flashes, the laner freezes and doesn't follow up, the enemy support is somehow there already, or the gank cod simply shows up three seconds late having taken a scenic route through the wrong camps. Gank fails are often clipped, uploaded, and captioned with things like 'this is why I have trust issues.' The worse the setup, the funnier the fail.