No incentive to invade enemy jungle?

Nhifu··4 votes·583 views

Would really like to see this game revolve more around players invading and actively leaving allied side of the map :)

Kind of tired seeing half of the playerbase farm till 20 and are too afraid to do aggressive plays!

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Martyrofsand2 votes

So...

Stealing camps(IE gold/experience) Warding to keep tabs on enemy jungler Setting up picks in the jungle Forcing fights before the enemy team can react Stealing red/blue buff Stealing sweeper plants to get vision superiority and set up ganks

I mean those are just off the top of my head and all of which are really valuable things that build a lead create momentum and win games. If you want to real demonstration of just how good counter jungling can be, especially when done by masters though, check out SKT vs KT game 5 of the LCK semi-finals.

MysterQ1 votes

And yet the korean casters often mock counterjungling due to the "massive" catchup xp making your efforts worth less than it used to. Yes you can gain some leads, but when the casters are calling the game out on catchup xp there might be a problem.

Recent cast I remember. Oh he is very far behind. It is going to take him awhile to catch up. Oh.... he is level 12 well he is all caught up it seems.

Martyrofsand2 votes

Yes if you do nothing with the lead then sure, but if you are a good player and you use the advantage to continue to snowball one right after the other, that is how wins happen.

MLDzXnRRR2 votes

So, instead of helping your team, you make the life of the other jungler miserabe. I can't count how many times I've seen Lee Sin, Kha, Yi and other pickers to just sit in the enemy jg without ganking or doing anything while the enemy jg seeing that he won't farm (because he already died on red invaded), just ganks and camps lanes, he may not have xp or items, but is useful for his team.

Warlord Scrap1 votes

What if they gave an incentive like enemy jg creeps were worth more gold/farm. The gamenalready tracks allied/enemy jg creeps so it shouldnt be too hard to code.

Mianta1 votes

Then I would suggest reaching a higher elo. There's a LOT of incentive to invade enemy jungle. You set the enemy jungler behind, you apply pressure with your map presence, you give your team valuable information with the increase in vision alone. (If you invade northeast jungle and enemy isnt there, your team then knows that the enemy jungler should most likely be in the northwest jungle, which can save your top/mid from a potential gank.) It also gets the invader more exp and gold as they're continuing their clearing path before they back.

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