Jungle Nerfs 2k19 (Is it dead now?)

Blackiehedgie··4 votes·1,356 views

Am I the only Jungle main here who is getting fed up with how Riot is treating our role? They want to reduce JG pressure but it is my common experience (Bronze 2, silver elo (I blame my gold friends for this) ) that the Jungler either has to powerfarm or gank early in order to keep up XP wise with BOT LANE! A lane that is meant to be a bit slower because it has two champs in it, not one!

Before this patch rolls out, we already have trouble keeping up across top and mid and pre-level 6 it feels impossible to gank certain lanes that hit 6 far ahead of both botlane and Jungle. Examples of this are lanes like Illaoi or Yorick who have incredible kill pressure once they hit six, or Talon, who can use his ult to escape in his brief window of invisibility. And now, they're reducing the experience Junglers get from camps?! They're removing vision from Red Smite, which was important for champs with targeted abilities like Yi who can capitalize on a poor invade in the jungle!

Is it just me, or is Riot trying to kill off the Jungle role?! Yeah, Riot, I get it. Players complained they were getting ganked too often, but now they'll complain they aren't getting ganked enough, when the jungler falls so far behind they become irrelevant before the midgame! It's getting old, Riot! Stop hurting our role! First Tracker's Knife gets retired, now they're removing vision off of Skirmisher's Sabre! What's next, Riot?! What are you going to do to finish killing our role next?! Are you gonna nerf all the junglers into oblivion? Are you gonna get rid of camps altogether?! When will it end, Rito?!

I guess, though, it doesn't really matter does it? Riot won't give a Fiddlesticks about us Junglers who feel they've ruined our role. Keep piling it on, Rito. See how long before the jungle stops existing and they lose players who live in the jungle, who love the role, and who hate seeing it be constantly destroyed.

5 Comments

The thigh guy3 votes

Riot just wants to force the level 2 gank meta more and more. It makes for faster snowball games, and that’s how they want their lc$ to be.

CrazyMonkeyCZ3 votes

Am I only one who remembers that jnglers wasn't meant to be same lvl as laners or is it just my imagination? True or not, jng as role is powerful and will be.

Profirix4 votes

Correction: early ganking junglers are powerful and will be. So will tanks. Farming junglers will be severely hampered. Any situation where a jungler ganks should put the laner at a disadvantage unless they play smart or have backup. That is by design. I don't have a problem with reducing the frequency with which junglers can gank, but you need to do more than rob them of experience. This is a hacksaw change to all junglers requiring a surgeons precision for a single class of junglers.

Blackiehedgie2 votes

I do agree with you on that part. Riot really needs to hire some jungle mains who can actually balance the role properly. The issue is, they just effectively nerfed every farming jungler and it's bound to upset a lot of people. Champions like Evelynn almost require 6 in order to make full use of her abilities, otherwise she's nothing but a squishy target for gold. Her whole kit revolves around her level 6 powerspike and now? Now she's being punished just by existing. How is that fair?

5050BS2 votes

Jungle was meant to be behind in level same as Support.

The issue is that Damage and Burst are so big that in a 2v1 with the laners being the same level and the Jungler being lower level means that enemy laner can jump on the Jungler and kill him before he gets killed (tho he probably will get killed)

Lower damage and Burst and then a lvl 4 jungler ganking a level 5 lane is fine.

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