Ranking the junglers at worlds (OPINION)

OHminus·9/25/2019, 3:44:22 PM·1 votes·2,228 views

Preface: I watch the 4 major regions, went back and watched some of the others. Ones I did not watch: LST/LLA/LJL. Also, these are opinions.

  1. G2 Jankos
  2. SKT Clid
  3. FPX Tian
  4. GRF Tarzan
  5. DWG Canyon
  6. RNG Karsa
  7. C9 Svenskeren
  8. FNC Broxah
  9. SPY Xerxe
  10. GAM Levi
  11. TL Xmithie
  12. JT Hana
  13. IG Leyan/Ning
  14. CG Lira
  15. RY Closer
  16. ISG Oddie
  17. HKA Crash
  18. LKE DNK
  19. FLA Shrimp
  20. UOL AHaHaCiK
  21. AHQ Alex
  22. MEGA Lloyd
  23. DFM Steal
  24. MMM Babip

Some overall comments: The jungle position is certainly, in my opinion, one of the stronger positions at Worlds. Basically every top tier jungler is here. The top 3 are pretty set - Jankos, Clid, and Tian are all on a level of their own. Tarzan probably is in that tier as well but has shown he can underperform. Canyon, Karsa, Sven and Broxah make up the next tier - all really good junglers but I've seen them make a lot of mistakes as well. Xerxe is a good jungler but doesn't seem to have a lot of synergy with Humanoid, Levi is probably the best wildcard jungler in history with his aggressive plays on carry junglers. Xmithie is a bit lower here because he's a bit more passive then the top 10 and plays a lot of tank junglers, which aren't the best in the early game (also, his performance later in summer was pretty dismal). Hana is probably the best player on that J-Team roster that went nearly undefeated in LMS, and imo is slightly better than the unproven Leyan (who wavered between solid and plain bad in his games) and the coinflip Ning, who has underperformed all summer. Lira is probably the worst of the junglers from the 4 major regions, but has proven that he can be solid on champs like Skarner and J4. To round it off, Closer and Oddie are probably the 2 best wildcard junglers (besides Levi) and I was impressed by their performances.

5 Comments

III BAKURYU III 9/25/2019, 6:48:18 PM1 votes

I think Jungle is one of the hardest positions( Giggity Giggity Goo) to judge because it's so dependent on their laners. Look at Svenskeren when he had to babysit Bjergsen and look at him now. Day n' Night.

Oddie should do some incredible plays but the problem is Isurus Gaming are in a tough a$$ group! I expect Ekko to be the main champ for such team/Oddie.

I love GAM but I just don't see it from them this year. People are saying FPX will go 6-0 or auto-locked 1st in their group but I honestly see J Team really giving them a show( 1-1) in groups as of right now for me. J Team are Team Liquid "lite" personally where they have strong objective focus but tend to be passive early more times than not. If they can work on their aggressive early game it could mean making it out of Groups as a potential 1st seed.
Many teams play aggressive and while some(Griffin, Team Liquid, J Team) are slower than others this isn't 2017 where GAM will surprise teams with LV 6. Nocturne. I still have 2 weeks to study them but that's just my opinion on GAM and Group B currently.

What's your opinion on Group A/ Griffin? Are they "free food"-Kelsey Moser said or what?

TrashCommun1ty10/1/2019, 8:17:10 PM1 votes

U might be joking svenskeren > Broxah , Xerxe and Ning??? Since when? :D::D:D