time to punish afk junglers

G0dEmperorTrump·5/18/2019, 2:55:23 AM·2 votes·1,147 views

And don't start hiding behind "oh he's just ranting", cause I'm talking about the DESIGN OF THE GAME, not the players. It's RIOT'S JOB to ensure teams are balanced and everyone has a chance to win. But they fail. Hard. When you get an afk jungler, you're 4 vs 5. And, in bronze, most junglers pick this role because they basically can't lane. They cannot last hit and they get rekt easily early. They think "oh if only I was fed, I would have won". So they pick jungler as a safe and easy way to farm. They afk farm in the jungle for 10 mins, hoping eveyrbody else but themselves is a bot, and the game will be waiting for them. This creates an imbalance where 1 team has a jungler, and the other hasn't. Of course, the real jungler, in the other team, has already fed all of his laners, and the game is lost when that kha zix / yi / udyr / etc finally gets out, hoping to pentakill. AND RIOT ALLOWS THIS. They allow this, because there is absolutely NO PUNISHMENT EVER for an afk jungler. The whole team will lose, the jungler will blame top/mid/bot for feeding and think "those guys are feeders" when HE is responsible. But he cannot know. The game never shows him he did anything wrong. What the game shows him reflects exactly what he thinks : he's 1/2, 180 Farms, and that other guy is 0/6 with 110 farms. But we know this other guy was ganked 4 times. His game was absolutely frustrating and made he feel powerless, which is the worse a game can do. And the jungler will suffer absolutely ZERO penalty. The entire team will share it. Time for riot to face their failures. Tweaking 1 pnt of damage here, .1s of cd there ,won't cut it : we need people to account for their own failures. If a jungler is not ganking, he's failing his team. That's an infrigement to the summoner's code. And if riot doesn't punish/give him some sort of penalthy, they're failing the players. Maybe they could introduce something in bronze that forces players to get out of the jungle. Or penalize junglers who have 0 presence on lane in early. Or ban them. There's plenty of possibilities. And it's not just the jungle : in general, riot needs to give more penalty/rewards to players individuallly. Or fix match maker.

8 Comments

The thigh guy5/18/2019, 3:35:07 AM3 votes

Bitches about gank meta. Bitches when junglers farm.

Lanes are never happy with anything.

youthere5/18/2019, 3:15:09 AM2 votes

If you have a problem with junglers, then play jungle.

Also, I find it funny you accuse people who jungle as not being able to lane, meanwhile you're whole post is a QQ that your jungler's life doesn't revolve around you and your lane.

Unstoppable Monk5/18/2019, 3:33:37 AM2 votes

You have a 40% win rate, ganking your lane should be an infringement to the summoner's code more than not.

BigBellBrute5/18/2019, 7:11:54 PM2 votes

Riot's new character is going to take care of that. It's ult, which she has at at level one, will instantly drag the jungler to your lane and give them the what for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7r-B3gsxcY

cars3n5/18/2019, 3:03:41 AM1 votes

They can’t punish players for being trash

macspam5/18/2019, 5:59:11 AM1 votes

most junglers pick this role because they basically can't lane.

you gotta be kidding me. Why would you jungle when even if you are AFK farming you are still multiple levels behind your solo laners.

Seriously, play some jungle and then complain. Oh wait, you don't want to play jungle. You just want to play armchair coach and say how eveyone who is willing to play the role is trash

Ambitious Minnow5/18/2019, 7:07:42 PM1 votes

OP has literally no clue, lol.