Daily reminder that the jungle is WAY too strong

KirbyCake·5/15/2019, 2:34:09 PM·2 votes·792 views

I decided to watch some MSI and it is apparent to anybody watching the same game as I am that junglers affect the outcome of the game way too much as 1 person out of 5 people. Junglers have 90%+ kill participation early game and pretty much the jungler who has snowballed their team harder has decided the game. Nobody in the world is good enough to 1 v 2 and how in the world can normal people be expected to avoid getting ganked when pro players can't without having their team dominate to begin with and putting vision in the enemy jungle. If you push up even a little, you get ganked. If you let the wave shove to your turret, you get dove from 100 to 0. Might as well have priority and just shove non-stop and pray that you can outplay 1 v 2.

Top of the challenger ladder is infested with jungle mains. Pretty much all high elo players agree that jungle is a top 2 role in terms of carrying potential, including jungle mains. If the enemy jungler kills your jungler, you pretty much automatically lose the game. Their jungler who got ahead can easily pull off successful ganks one after another on any lane that didn't lose horrendously and your jungler can't do anything without horrendous risk of a counter gank. When a lane gets ahead, it doesn't immediately put pressure on everybody on the enemy team. And to translate their lead into other lanes, they need to roam which requires sacrificing a ton of exp and potentially throw their lead. Nothing happens to the jungler who fails their gank unless they've failed a shit ton of ganks non-stop, in which case they deserve to lose for being so boosted.

11 Comments

The thigh guy5/15/2019, 2:36:30 PM3 votes

Oh yeah. Constantly being 2+ levels behind the enemy solo laners 1 level behind your duo, and only really being super relevant for a whooping 2 minutes is definetly too strong.

BeatzBoyFTW5/15/2019, 2:50:31 PM2 votes

Aren't they still playing on patch 9.8? The one without the delayed Rift Crab spawn time?