Jungle Items Changes (Ranger's Trailblazer)

ProjectE·12/1/2014, 1:48:13 PM·2 votes·1,148 views

I really like the changes that were done to the jungle this preseason. I feel like the addition of smite bonuses and different jungle items really make ever summer rift games feel unique and situation. This being said there is one jungle item that currently outshines the others ( Ranger's Trailblazer ). I feel like since this item has a 45 seconds cooldown, all of the other jungle items are over looked at and thus I fear everyone will pick this item instead of buying the right jungle item for the given situation.

I believe that Riot should either increase the cooldown of Ranger's Trailblazer to 60 seconds or have all of the jungle item's smite at the same cooldown (say like 50 seconds if 60 seconds seems to long). What does everyone else think?

Ps: First time writing a Discussion ^.^

8 Comments

ValyrianBlade12/1/2014, 3:56:13 PM2 votes

It makes a lot of sense to me, if anything the cooldown should be even shorter (like equal to old smite...). Camps are harder, and now you need to buy an item to get the upgraded smite. If you're strong enough to not need Rangers trailblazer for its smite, you get to take a champion smite. Why anyone would overlook the ability to smite champions either slowing them or adding true damage because of a 15 second difference in cooldown that they only need for objective control that only spawns every 6+minutes is beyond me.

Rangers trailblazer is basically a "I can't gank or clear well at all early so this will help me get ahead as a jungler and if my lanes don't feed we'll win by outscaling" whereas skirmishers is more of "I'll pull off ganks to get all my lanes ahead and they'll carry the win".

If Rangers gets even a little weaker I think everyone would just take skirmishers...

ProfDrDeath12/1/2014, 5:00:45 PM2 votes

You might want to look at the PBE patch notes ;)

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/VPBE http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/current-pbe-balance-changes.html

PerishSoftly12/1/2014, 1:57:29 PM1 votes

RTB is the farm focused smite buff. PK is the counter-jungle smite buff (it gives you a 30 second smite and bonus gold while counterjungling) SkSaber is the dueling smite. Other one, which I can't remember the name of is the ganking smite.

They all have their own niche for what they're supposed to be used for. Whether they are actually used for it is another matter entirely.

ProjectE12/1/2014, 2:16:29 PM1 votes

I feel like the other items are overlooked because of the cooldown on Rengar's Trailblazer. I for one like running Stalker's Blade (the ganking smite) when I play Rengar because I tend to gank more often. I have seen my fair share of WW running Skirmisher's Saber which is annoying but the kind of outcome I would like to see more with the rest of the jungle items.