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Riot, PLEASE buff some of the weaker junglers

Krazikarl·2/18/2015, 1:32:40 AM·1 votes·749 views

It appears we have some upcoming nerfs to very popular jungling tools, and we have had a number of such nerfs already. The very popular chilling smite. The very popular Warriors enchantment. A rangers enchantment nerf already happened.

These changes aren't happening because of junglers in general. Most junglers arent even that strong right now. They are happening because of a few standouts at the top - heck, Riot even named the chilling smite nerf as being targeted at champions like Lee and J4.

But, a lot of junglers who are already pretty marginal are getting caught in the crossfire and being taken down notches when they really couldn't afford it. Sure Lee and J4 can use some nerfs. But those nerfs hurt a bunch of other lesser junglers just as much.

So why aren't we seeing buffs to the other champs that really, REALLY need it? Does it really take so long to see that maybe Skarner and Udyr could use some help to make up for chilling smite nerfs? Diversity is really poor in jungle (one week of NA LCS saw a grand total of 4 junglers played across all games), and these general changes to address a few people at the top don't seem to help.

And the whole "hey, it might come in a few patches!" thing that we got after the 100 gold bump that killed diversity is kind of a turn off to be honest. Frankly, its no problem at all in the preseason, but in the middle of the season its kind of weird to say that to 20% of your population. I thought that the whole point of the new jungle was to have lots of levers and stuff to be able to apply changes quickly and fix balance issues quickly (sure haven't heard much about levers lately).

2 Comments

Long Dong Wukong2/18/2015, 1:47:50 AM1 votes

They made all of the characters I played in the jungle garbo item 3070 item 3070

Once a jungle main, now I prefer top. RIPMonkeyKing Khazix

All this season did was kick out Assassin/squishy junglers and make the previous top tier junglers even better.

Extra Conspiracy : They hired Ghostcrawler and suddenly the game went to shit and became anti-melee(melee characters are boring and all they do is have wet noodle fights top).

Vanaith2/18/2015, 1:49:14 AM1 votes

j4 gets to take more damage from jungle camps now, so that helps with other jungle problems how? We are still not seeing anything but a handful of champs in the jungle and nerfing the only viable junglers only puts us back to preseason, with jungle being unplayable. Start addressing the weak jungle champs.