Kled jungle thoughts

Protagoras··1 votes·4,258 views

Tried Kled jungle on PBE, I thought his mechanism makes him a really fun jungler to play with. But here's some problem with Kled jungle. He clears camps fast enough and takes reasonable damage from each camp, but it all went to hell when he is dismounted. He have little movement speed to outrun jungle monsters which makes it nearly impossible to kite them. And his passive does not charge against normal jungle camps, only epic monster charge his passive. That means after the first 3 camps he will have to recall to mount again to clear the other camps or gank a lane. Which is really not gonna work.

Whenever he is clearing camps, when he takes enough damage, which is about 60% of his entire health pool, he gets dismounted, and there is no way for him to mount back. He is extremely vulnerable when he is dismounted, as he has little movement speed to either run away from enemy invading jungler or walk towards a lane to gank. Even if he did walk to lane with less than 50% of his health and tries to gank, it takes him at least a few auto attacks and 2 fully-hit Q shots to mount back to secure a kill, if he didn't feed a kill already.

I can see the problem for letting him to be able to charge his passive against normal jungle camps, he will take little to no damage after clearing the entire jungle. But at least let him charge his passive at a reduced speed. Say 20-30% as fast as if he is fighting an epic monster. In that way at least he will be able to mount back after a few camps and be able to actually gank.

Now I just can't see a way Kled jungle will work. It's really a pity because his gank will be really fun and not at all deadly if he missed his Q.

Thoughts everyone?

4 Comments

Mistress Shyvana1 votes

I think this is intentional.. sadly. They said the enxt champ would be a yordle, but not a jungler. I think they are trying to force this.

Zarkkast1 votes

It is intentional. He doesn't work as a jungler.

The only way he could work as a jungler is if the top laner or someone else jungled with him in the early levels, like it happens in LCS.

But you never see that outside of competitive. If you could get past the early game he should be a descent jungler though.

TheRealPear1 votes

If they really wanted to they could make him seemingly viable in jungle if they allowed him to charge his passive by killing jungle camps. This would get away from it being easy to get his mount back but still make him somewhat able to jungle effectively.

0verlordFluffy1 votes

Honest opinion of kled jungle as a kled main, his ganks are great post 6 and okay pre 6 but although as pointed out his camp clear is bad early game but after tiamat it's a whole lot easier and quick kled jungle imo is gank focused either get fed or get your team fed after a few items his sieging and split pushing makes him a strong asset to any team I once dc after blue buff for 5 minutes came back grabbed blue reached level 4 counter ganged bot lane and left at level 7 and won 3 for 1 sadly my adc died as I was killing the 2nd enemy. Kled works jungle almost as well as his top lane counterpart he's only weakened by poor early clears therefore be cautious with invasions. PS I can grab blue side clear it go to red with a smite and grab red before backing to build my tiamat components. Don't attempt raptors or krugs early unless you have tiamat and/or a smite they chew his hp to fast for him to recover.

More from Gameplay