Scuttle Crab eliminates interesting baron and dragon fights.

Lord Maximus·11/21/2014, 8:02:52 PM·2 votes·1,541 views

I love all the new jungle changes except for the scuttle crab. To be honest I hate the scuttle crab. It creates uncounterable vision in the most important areas of the jungle. We will loose the epic ward battles and the strategy of ward placement is really dumbed down. No longer can we bait baron or have epic vision wars that lead into epic team fights. I hope eventually riot will realize this and change the scuttle crab buff. Perhaps make the free ward killable (give it a ton of health though) or move it so it is not directly in front of pits. Not only is it not fun to play with, It will really dumb down LCS play. Saintvicious even said he really hates it on his youtube channel. I really like all the other jungle changes, but this needs to be changed!

4 Comments

Rebonack11/21/2014, 8:07:35 PM3 votes

Don't you dare slander the Scuttlecrab. He's the coolist character on the Rift right now.

Leti the Yeti11/21/2014, 8:10:15 PM1 votes

dumbed down indeed, but putting down a pink ward by baron somewhere didnt require alot of thinking either regardless if they come kill it, you know they're there

baiting baron's still possible.... no one ever baited it while standing by baron.. they sorta hid around the general vicinity where the crab doesnt have vision for anyway, waiting to jump the inevitable incoming team

Diljic11/21/2014, 8:12:36 PM1 votes

I agree that there needs to be some way to destroy the vision from the crab even if the speed zone is left behind. Maybe make True Vision cause the "ward" to be vulnerable so a team has to expend something to clear it.

Luçifer11/21/2014, 8:14:13 PM1 votes

It's spelled lose, not loose in that context. You act as if the vision isn't a reward. The vision is awarded to the team which kills the crab first. When you spoke of epic vision wars that lead into epic team fights, it could be seen as epic crab chases that lead into epic team fights. I like the idea and don't see any problems with it. It is dangerous to kill the crab and in reward for that dangerous feat you get vision. You still will be able to bait baron under circumstances where the crab is still alive or your team has killed the crab and the enemy has no vision of you. The idea of having the ward with health points is an interesting idea that I think would be great if implemented. When you say that it will dumb down LCS play, you have no idea how it will affect LCS play because no one has played in LCS yet with these changes, so therefore I disagree with that. I'll have to check out Saint's youtube, if you have a link that would be great.