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The jungle champ pool

Ultimate Deadpoo·9/4/2016, 10:12:08 PM·1 votes·640 views

The jungle champ pool is laughably sad, you really only see 2 champions picked ever in jungle, rek sai and gragas, and me and every other jungler agrees with this, its pathetic. I mean, with this laughably sad pool of possible picks I just need to master gragas and rek sai, learn how to socialize, and now I'm pro because only two junglers are ever picked. Its sad, and while the nerfs were well needed to these two guys I just don't feel as if the nerfs were severe enough. Honestly, I would love to see a Shyvana, or a Nocturne, or anything like that in worlds, but unless the S tier champs are either nerfed to non existance, or other champs like Skarner, Shyvana, and other junglers are buffed to make them at least somewhat appealing to pro players, well I don't see the meta changing.

However, its unlikely Riot will do that, after all the major fault here lies on the pros themselves, for being unwilling to try new things, and not being willing to take out a favorite of theirs and saying, yeah, I can do this. Expect for one, Inori. Pretty much everyone agrees Inori's Rengar game was the stuff of legend, and he brought it out against TSM...and he lead his team to victory. Then against Immortals, he brought out Mordekiser, and lead his team to victory again. I hope that when season seven roles around, other junglers like Reignover will look at Inori's preformance and say, you know what, fuck the meta, I'm gonna bring out a champ I enjoy playing, and wreck house.

So, please pro junglers, try new things, bring out the unexpected and show that there isn't just two champions that you can jungle with. If you guys are with me on this and want to see change in the jungle meta, please upvote, and I also would like to know your opinion on the state of the jungle meta.

9 Comments

III BAKURYU III 9/4/2016, 10:37:36 PM1 votes

Get to challenger and once you do you can play any champion you want and I will watch your games until then looks like we just have to watch the pros play what wins.

WolfChases9/4/2016, 10:57:07 PM1 votes

1st of all jungle champion pool is nowhere near only 2 champions. You simply can't compare our games with LCS. You don't even gave to care about champion pools untill you reach mid Diamond Elo, until than, you can jungle with literally every single champion that can play that role. As a Platinum/Gold jungler/adc I play Pantheon, Kindred, Elise, Nocturne (my main), Zac, Maokai, Graves, Volibear, Trundle, Diana, Vi (sometimes), Amumu and I do really well. Heck I reached Platinum one year ago simply by spamming Pantheon and Nocturne and I play those two every single day and they are good as hell. As for Gragas and Rek, I don't play them because I found them really boring and I am bad at both, I don't even play Nidalee.

From Bronze to Platinum 1 you can play every single jungler without any problems, from Plat 1 to Diamond + you will probably be forced to drop few of them but still, it's not like you are gonna be playing just Grag and Rek lol. Pros are picking them ONLY because they are good for their teamcomps and that's all.

hotarse9/5/2016, 12:33:44 PM1 votes

i loved it when hecarim was starting to rear his head, but for some reason, riot doesn't like the horse and always nerf him when he starts to get play. guess whoever designed him was one of the guys on Riot's naughty list. riot knows who's naughty and who's nice.