@Riot Is This Your Idea of Diversifying the Jungle?
Riot, one of your goals in the preseason was to diversify jungle picks. Based on jungle pick rates in LCK I'd say this was a gigantic failure. So far in the LCK there have only been 3 junglers with any sizeable impact on the pick ban stage
: 29 picks, 3 bans, 51.7% win rate, 97% pick/ban rate
: 26 picks, 2 bans, 50% win rate, 84.7% pick/ban rate
: 2 picks, 19 bans, 50% win rate, 63.6% pick/ban rate (not available week 1, 100% pick/ban while available)
After this there's a significant drought in champ picks and bans
: 5 picks, 6 bans, 40% win rate, 33% pick/ban rate
: 2 picks, 0 bans, 100% win rate, 6.1% pick/ban rate
: 1 pick, 1 ban, 0% win rate, 6.1% pick/ban rate
: 1 pick, 0 bans, 0% win rate, 3% pick/ban rate
While
has 1 pick she was played as a support and not a jungler.
So Riot in Korea there have been 7 junglers played within 3 weeks, only 4 of whom have greater than 10% pick/ban rate. This isn't diversity, it's the most stale the jungle has ever been. There are 3 junglers who have an effective 80% pick/ban rate, one of whom has been consistent between all metas, one consistent through many metas and one who was just released.
I think it's time to stop blaming the jungle for these champs individual problems, they are too good and will continue to be picked across any jungle because of it, even jungles which don't favour them.
for instance. All they do is give him back max range at lvl 1 of his e instead of its range leveling up as you go, and he would be right up there being complained about ^.^