Let's talk about Jungle items.

Taredom·6/12/2015, 10:01:09 PM·1 votes·311 views

I've been maining jungle for about 2 seasons now, I'm sure that I'm not the only one that feels that there is a pretty large imbalance between the items.

item 3725 Despite the nerfs that it's received, 25% extra bonus health is insane, the burn, even though much lower, is still very relevant too and it pushes out pretty much every other item. item 3723 The champs that would generally build this are bruisers and fighters, but in pretty much every situation, you're better off getting cinderhulk, the advantage of going warrior is a very nice early game power spike that rolls off in the late game (although you could simply switch to cinderhulk in the late game, and often times you're better off doing that.) item 3724 Feels fine, actually quite strong if you aren't needed to go the tanky route, I've heard that it's one of the most efficient items in the game and feels relevant throughout the entire game. item 3726 A really fun item that gets better as the game goes, but due to Warwick being so strong early in this season, this item received a substantial nerf (starts with 15 less damage on the passive, which is essentially 15 large monsters or 8 1/2 kills or assist)

I'm interested to know how the community feels about these items and the direction that riot should go with them, thanks in advance for your input!

14 Comments

McAllister6/12/2015, 11:38:54 PM2 votes

I've often thought Devourer would be better balanced by getting more stacks on kill/assist and by dealing its damage to towers. It's gotta be the "carry from the jungle" item.

Erockandroll6/13/2015, 12:07:40 AM2 votes

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If it is so healthy why don't we see much ap junglers? And the ones we see are mostly cinder junglers.

AP Junglers are too blue buff dependent. Yet Blue buff remains best, in the hands of your mid laner. I may have taken an AP Jungler if our mid, was a Yasuo, a Vlad, a Zed, anyone who doesn't need the mana. Also because of AP midlaners, having magic heavy Junglers doesn't help round out the team comp.

My Original though for magus was to give it the % mana restore on Kill/assist passive that Athene's has. Rewarding AP Junglers for a successful gank. But this works to. Also With RuneGlaives spellblade passive, Their might be even more mages that become viable for Jungling. Not Just Diana or ekko.

Also, Cinderhulk isn't as dominant as it use to be. It's just a late game scaling item. While Warrior gives your the faster clear and the early damage. Choosing one over the other for no other purpose than when it spike is perfectly fine. And we have been seeing warrior on Rek'sai and Evelynn in the LCS.

The only thing Devourer needs is to not be reliant on AFK farming, As riot clearly does not support that tacktic.

All in all, with CinderHulk and RuneGlaive I would predict that Warrior and Devourer will be looked at next. Probably reworked into something with a much cooler name.

Kãtãrinã6/12/2015, 10:09:42 PM1 votes

the magnus one is being changed (blue one) on the PBE to have a spellblade effect with it.