The jungle champ pool

Ultimate Deadpoo·Sep 4, 2016·1 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 Sep 4, 20161 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.

Ultimate DeadpooSep 4, 20161 votes

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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.

Yeah, I can dream of getting to challenger...but sadly I'm just bronze trash, well at least for now..but I doubt I will ever get to challenger or even diamond for that matter

III BAKURYU III Sep 4, 20161 votes

.... Your not "trash" maybe not good.. yet but not "trash" get that out of your mind to begin with!

If you doubt yourself especially when it's your Dream than you're a COWARD !!!! plain and simple.

Keep practicing and don't just Dream about something GO GET IT!

Ultimate DeadpooSep 4, 20161 votes

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.... Your not "trash" maybe not good.. yet but not "trash" get that out of your mind to begin with!

If you doubt yourself especially when it's your Dream than you're a COWARD !!!! plain and simple.

Keep practicing and don't just Dream about something GO GET IT!

That is great advice...unfortunately my dream of this post becoming good seems to be dying...apparently people either think a Bronze saying anything like this makes it bad automatically, or people actually like the 2 champion pool in pro.

III BAKURYU III Sep 4, 20161 votes

People don't like the same champions being played in the LCS but some people understand why pros play certain and the same champions it's more so of trying to WIN and not trying to try out whats different or what is fun etc they want to WIN.

I think it's funny when people complain about pros playing the same champions over and over LOL the pro's are literally showing you how to get out of certain divisions and elo.

WolfChasesSep 4, 20161 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.

Ultimate DeadpooSep 4, 20161 votes

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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.

Well, thats the thing. I wasn't saying oh people only use two champs. I'm saying that pros seem to only use these two, and ignore all the other options out there. Its like suddenly they forget there are other junglers besides these two. If you thought I meant all anyone uses are these two, then yeah, I didn't mean that at all. I was just saying that pros specifically should switch it up a bit. And as for team comps go, well I'm bronze and I don't exactly know much about team comps soo sue me.

WolfChasesSep 5, 20161 votes

But what should they pick besides Rek and Grag? Rek'Sai provides an AOE easy knock up and insanely good map pressure while Gragas provides insanely high amount of CC, good peel and damage as well. Why should they pick Elise and leave Gragas if Elise turns into a single target stun bot late game :D

hotarseSep 5, 20161 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.