My idea for double smite, heavy pushing +1 counter jungle style.

VoodooSaviorNBK·8/14/2014, 5:15:29 AM·1 votes·1,270 views
 I've been brainstorming for a long while about variable strategies in league, I think it's rather boring to have a million dollar prize, with the lack of innovation in the league scene in general.   

One of the biggest points about league, setting it apart from other moba's is summoner spells. I'm sure you've seen all ten players in a game taking flash, for example. What about something different, radically different? Such as Nunu/Tryndamere with smite, one with heal one with exhaust?

Not just to do with summoner spells-but shaking up the very fundamentals of the 'meta', which arguably a big part of it's existence is owed to a concept ill call 'gold flow'. There's only so much available gold on the map, as you've noticed there's three lanes and two jungles, with four buffs.

One of the most fun, though randomized parts of DoTA is runes, and the jungler collects most/all of the 'runes' in a league of legends game, as the jungle buffs correspond to runes.

That's all well, we've gotten rid of the randomization of rune spawns. We've got these jungle mobs sitting there waiting to be taken out.

What I'd like to propose is as follows:Control the gold flow of the game differently than it is now. Presently we have the same old protect to kogmaw meta that has dominated league of legends since season 1, even.

The strategy posits that, if kogmaw just sits back and farms safely, poking away, if our ranged carry is more fed than yours we can win fights and push easily, as ranged champions have an easy time hitting towers with minions distracting them compared to melee.

Is 1 1 2 with a jungler the only way to play to get gold flow? What about experience? I see that it's a rather passive way of going about things, it posits and assumes that said carry wont get ganked and shut the heck down. With the lack of oracle elixir, and the pink ward change vision control is harder on a support, the team who 4 man ganks bot usually gets the advantage of taking dragon, etc.

 Here's my idea: 1-1-1, one person per lane, and two junglers. 

One being a normal viable jungler, perhaps a Feral Flare jungler. This champion, being the main carry in this relationship would take EXP quints, to stay a level ahead of the 2nd' jungler' and make use of the support mastery that gives you 10xp per tick if you're near someone a level ahead of you. The other smite champion being a support, taking gold gen quints. Perhaps this team invades, taking first blood and maybe the enemies buff. Where can their jungler go now? Much of said junglers team is off bot lane, protecting kog maw who MIGHT get fed and MIGHT carry, one day when he grows up. Until then, their both doing jack if the enemy junglers decide to invade their red, for example.

Okay, so these two junglers invade the enemy red, lee sin is taking it. Yeah, he started blue buff. What a noob. Lee sins team, lets say purple team pulls off csing and harassing to help this noob lee.

Let's say blue team, who has two jungles does the same. If you've counted, there's a possibly of 3 people purple side being at red helping lee. There's a possibly of 4 blue side to take those 3 people and bend them over and.. you know the rest. I'm sure some of you nerds have played card games, like magic the gathering. I haven't played magic, but I notice people who play these strategy games throw around terms like being +1 or neg 1. The blue team just went +1, and the purple team went -1, and it's purple teams move. Unless purple team draws a "bot lane takes double teleport" card then it's pretty obvious bot lane is so incredibly far from their team that they can't reinforce, or they risk losing a lot of money.

      You know that support guy with kogmaw, on purple team? He's warding and stuff. The two junglers get ward control by taking out the enemy wards and protecting pink wards, which now need protecting in season 4. 

Ward control bot lane is abysmal, and lee sin is behind. What's that, top lane irelia on blue team is teleporting bot? There's 4 bot, oh noes! I wonder who will save us, save us lee sin! Save us mid laner! Save us top laner! None of them can come, save if they have teleport. Mid can MAYBE come and risk his tower being pushed, top lane is he has no TP can push top lane, so all is not lost. Purple team just lost bot turret, as they could only have 3 people bot vs blue teams 4. Good, you've gotten this far. What do you think?

I want every league player to innovate to the best of their ability, it's for the sake of the game. I can't see league surviving another 4 years with the same strategies, or lack of variable strategies. Thanks for listening. Be well.

4 Comments

12tales8/14/2014, 5:48:28 AM1 votes

I'd like to suggest using line breaks. It improves the legibility of posts dramatically.

Thunder Dreamss8/14/2014, 6:07:45 AM1 votes

What do you think?

I think you need to work on your formatting. Oh, you meant about the double jungle strategy?

Sure, it can work. It's high risk, high reword tho. If your jungles get ahead they can just dominate the enemy jungle and gank lanes like monsters. If they get behind they are stuck with half the normal gold flow because they can't safely invade the enemy jungle and as they fall further and further behind their ganks become more and more useless.

The other issue is that you need someone in bot lane who can survive a 1v2 lane. No matter who they are they will be losing exp and gold because they simply aren't as strong as two champs put together. Further, the enemy adc will be getting near free farm because there won't be enough pressure to zone them off minions. Basically, you need to be getting enough from the enemy jungle and the double ganks to make up for everything you lose in bot lane and every bit the enemy adc gets ahead.

The biggest problem with double jungle tho isn't it's viability. It's getting to practice it in game. You can do allot of craze "meta-bending" things in top/mid alone. Raka or Lulu? No problem. Thresh top? Sure, why not. Roaming, counter jungle Nunu top? Go ahead. With a duo you can do crazy stuff in bot. People might complain but you can do it on your own or with a duo on bot lane. Double jungle tho requires you queue up with two other people, two to play the two junglers and one to play the 1v2 in bot lane. Otherwise you're imposing directly on others and things end very badly.