Need help with Evelynn/jungling

Lesbian Lopunny·3/15/2017, 5:14:23 AM·3 votes·2,078 views

As far as I'm concerned, she is unequivocally, the worst jungler in the entire game. Her clear is awful, her early/mid damage is awful, her resistance to damage is awful, her lack of CC is awful, etc. I've tried playing her for at least 6 games now, even watched a challenger play her for some help, but nothing I do makes her work. She is outclassed, for example, by Lee in every conceivable way. Last game, he was able to gank every lane multiple times with them always being successful. Not only that, he was able to surpass me in farm for the entire game, even though I stopped to power farm to make sure I didn't "fall behind." None of it mattered, he got 10 plus kills and could one shot anyone on my team with just his Q.

My team blamed me, claiming I don't know how to jungle when it came to the point where they had total map control (at about the 7 minute mark). My team expected me to be in every lane at every point in time while also outfarming the other jungler. That's literally impossible. I have no idea what to do in this situation (where I need to be everywhere at once while also needing to keep up in farm), nor do I see how Evelynn could be considered "good" or "easy" by any player, given how terrible at everything she is.

Here's a couple pieces of honesty I'll give you as an ex-Eve main:

1: For the most part right now? Unless you end up with a bot lane double kill at 4 minutes then yep, you're pretty much entirely useless.

2: If my Evelynn builds full AP and we lose the game, I report her every single time. UNLESS YOU'RE HOPELESSLY AHEAD, NEVER FUCKING DO FULL AP. Riot themselves have said "She's in an awkward spot as a Melee AP Glass Cannon Assassin that can only properly scale in to late game with tank items." Which is 100% true. You're going to get blown up in every single lategame teamfight you go in to outside of some random picks you might get, and still trade your life for.

3: Her clear is god awful, and that's just something you have to accept playing her and work around it.

4: RETHINK WHAT RUNES AND MASTERIES YOU TAKE. You know that your E gives you 4 fervor stacks upon use since it counts as 2 autos, and your Q scales with AD damage right? It may not have the same bursting potential as thunderlords, but who cares about that when Silver teams aren't usually good enough to keep you alive past the burst on an AP build anyway? Instead of 12/18/0, you could be going 18/0/12.

-Free, strong DPS with Fervor that scales INCREDIBLY WELL in to tank items with the 130% AS for 3 seconds your E gives you -Free tankiness from the resolve tree that scales your ult shield, and can reduce a lot of the jungle damage you take -Any free tankiness = less team reliance on your end

All that being said, is Evelynn by any means a good jungler right now? No, not really. Does she have some seriously abusable traits that can make her insanely oppressive with the early game going well? Absolutely. She also has the advantage of being one of the most versatile champions in the game, so keep in mind you can always mix and match different builds and find out what's going to work each match, and what will work for you specifically. For Evelynn, there's technically no bad item to buy, and I've always found that really cool about her.

But srsly, build full AP in one of my matches and I'm almost 100% likely to flame you. <3

Past that point, have fun and don't be scared to think outside the box.

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Need help with Evelynn/jungling

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Here's a couple pieces of honesty I'll give you as an ex-Eve main:

-Free, strong DPS with Fervor that scales INCREDIBLY WELL in to tank items with the 130% AS for 3 seconds your E gives you -Free tankiness from the resolve tree that scales your ult shield, and can reduce a lot of the jungle damage you take -Any free tankiness = less team reliance on your end

You must just suck really bad with her is all