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The jungle seems to be the nesting place for imbalance in Season 5.

TurquoiseYoshi··2 votes·268 views

Pre-season 4.20: Huge changes, made WW OP as well as a few others.

5.5: Introduction of Cinderhulk leads to Gragas and Sej being OP.

5.13: Runeglaive junglers and Devourer got buffs. All hell breaks loose. There are multiple junglers with 60+% ban rates. The top 5 banned champions are all junglers. The pros are only using Runeglaive, and Solo Queue is only using Devourer.

And in 5.16, this will not change a whole lot. Three full patches after the big, meta-changing patch, we have seen 0 jungle changes other than a jungle clear speed buff for Runeglaive.

I wouldn't mind seeing some jungle balance at some point. I miss jungle balance.

4 Comments

Alljoy2 votes

When they started the Jungle changes at the beginning of the season, they mentioned doing so to have a better set of 'control knobs' to have a finer control over the jungle. I wonder if this entire season has been about extreme changes just to see how well they could manage with their new 'knobs'.

Sakura Mirage1 votes

Pros only using runeglaive pfft we still have cinderhulk rek sai gragas elise. The only one using runeglaive in competitive is eve and nidalee.

TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

We see a bit of Elise Runeglaive, and in any case, Cinderhulk is becoming less important in 5.16.

Edit: Additionally, Gragas and Rek'sai have been at the top for so long, they've become comfort picks for many junglers.

Lugg1 votes

You are completely right. The Jungle has taken imbalance to new heights this season.

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