More Jungle Gold?

Smitemuffin·Jun 30, 2015·4 votes·471 views

I'm really feeling like the jungle doesn't have enough gold in it. Even farming hard while pulling off mostly successful ganks, there are quite a few champions (I've noticed two in particular are and ) that just never get to the items they need in time to be useful. I'm really starting to feel what the Koreans mean when they call junglers "2nd support".

I feel this is further exacerbated by the expectation (and to be fair, necessity) that a jungler buy sightstone and/or the most wards. A junglers' ability to farm is directly proportionate to their DPS and ability to sustain farming multiple camps. The current state of the vision game stifles that really hard, especially for Warrior junglers, minus Lee Sin and his S-rank synergy with sightsone and Rek'Sai for her unmatched free map control

3 Comments

3tysonJun 30, 20153 votes

Im just sayinng i feel sort of screwed if i buy ss and noone upgrades trinket

SmitemuffinJul 1, 20152 votes

Actually, I already do. I especially make sure to secure both early when they're particularly easy to take.

But what you say also further reinforces my argument: You're using Fiora, a high dps champion. It's certain tanks that fall behind because they suffer low clear speeds overall and have very little to actually make them tanks (such as J4 who has no real tank abilities at all and Olaf who gets a whopping 10 resistances per point of ultimate). Those champions have to compensate with items, which they can't get. Compare them to champs like Shyvana, who can have over 100 cs on you by ~25 minutes even while ganking more often AND having stronger base abilities.

What Is SmiteJun 30, 20151 votes

put the scuttle crabs into your jungle rotations and you should see that you have enough gold fro your items. I play Jungle Fiora and usually on my first back i have enough for red smite+longsword+2 health pots+1 ward along with about 60 gold left over