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The Magus jungle enhancement is completely outclassed by Morellonomicon

RndmInternetMan·11/22/2014, 12:22:41 AM·4 votes·2,387 views

Each enchantment gives roughly the stats you’d get for the total cost of the enchanted item, so the jungle passive from Hunter’s Machete and the additional bonuses on the second tier items come effectively for free on the final items.

Above is a quote from the News post "Preseason 2015: A New Jungle".

Let's look at the Magus jungle enhancement item 3708 item 3716 item 3720 item 3724 : Cost: 2250 gold Stats:

  • 80 ability power
  • 20% cooldown reduction
  • Jungle passive and additional bonuses

Given the quote above, we should expect that an item that gives 80 ability power and 20% cooldown reduction should cost roughly 2250 gold.

Let's look at Morellonomicon item 3165 : Cost: 2100 gold Stats:

  • 80 ability power
  • 20% cooldown reduction
  • 100% base mana regen
  • Grievous Wounds passive

So I can get more stats for less gold with Morellonomicon. If I'm an AP jungler, there is absolutely no reason to ever enchant my jungle item. I am better off selling it later in the game and buying a Morellonomicon.

4 Comments

shppy11/22/2014, 12:34:17 AM3 votes

They're all outclassed, with the potential exception of Devourer (which will get nerfed).

Tenacity+500 health+10% cdr is only worth about 2000 gold when purchased on other basic items (2 Rubies+Kindlegem is 1650 gold for 10% cdr and 500 health, Merc's upgrade is 375 for tenacity AND +20 movespeed).

45 AD, 10% cdr, and 10 armor pen only costs 2057 in brutalizer + 2 longswords.

Devourer is basically Wit's End (2500 gold) without the 500 gold worth of MR and the MR theft on-hit, except the on-hit damage can scale up a bit.

Riot has this awful habit of believing it's justifiable for junglers to have to pay not only a summoner spell but also gold in order to be able to farm. Even finished jungle items are subpar to 'normal' items, because Riot makes you 'pay' for the jungle-only effects; it'd be like forcing laners to buy starting items with zero PvP capabilities just so that last-hits can generate gold... sounds ludicrous, right? Yeah, that's how they treat junglers.

KidSpectre11/22/2014, 1:03:02 AM1 votes

Only if you never plan on jungling again after selling it (and you're gonna want to, what with those buffs on all those jungle creeps, and dragon control being a big thing).