Making Jungle Poaching more difficult.

Menetius·12/18/2014, 6:25:04 PM·1 votes·1,029 views
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So there was a discussion in the attached link regarding increasing the difficulty of level-1 bot lane poaching. It got me thinking about the 7-minute defense buff to towers...

Why not apply a buff on jungle monsters for the first 4-7 minutes of the game that allows them to deal more damage against champions that aren't from the corresponding nexus? Example: Blue team's Brambleback deals more damage against red team's jungler. Said damage would scale with the number of opposing champions present. ("Unfamiliar Aggression?")

Or conversely, why not apply debuff on all champions for the same amount of time that makes them deal less damage against the opposing team's jungle, also scaling with the number of 'foreign' champions? ("Foreign Territory?")

It wasn't mentioned in the S@20 post, and I figured I'd just throw it out there.

5 Comments

Hiemdol12/18/2014, 6:45:13 PM2 votes

The changes they have been working on are not aimed at fighting counter jungleing. The problems come from high level play where bottom lane will take Gromp/Krugs with out losing more than one or two CS, resulting in an early level 2. The changes they were experimenting with were trying to make taking jungle camps for non-junglers unattractive at level one without penalizing the junglers themselves.

1st HanarSpectre12/18/2014, 6:44:00 PM1 votes

The only poaching they should worry about is your own team taking the camps, the enemy team risking their life to steal your jungle monster should not be viewed as bad for the game.

Pally San12/18/2014, 8:26:23 PM1 votes

Check out this thread, I think this is a pretty solid idea but looking for more. I think that the idea of making it easier for invaders and harder for defenders is interesting and worth talking about.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/l3WFTtyK-solved-how-to-stop-level-1-duos-from-poaching-jungle-camps