@Meddler, What's Going to Happen with Tank Junglers?

LankPants·1/7/2017, 2:00:05 PM·9 votes·902 views

Recently tank junglers have been at their lowest point of power since before the introduction of Cinderhulk. As of patch 6.20 no common tank jungler has a winrate above 50%, despite the fact that they're a class with an inherent pick advantage since team comps with tanks tend to be well rounded and stronger and when a tank jungle is picked they guarantee at least 1 tank on the team. Last season the resting average for jungle tanks was somewhere around 52%, right now it's somewhere between 47% and 48%.

The only tank who seems to be doing at all well in this season is Zac, but even he's took a major drop with the implementation of the new jungle and nerfs that have already hit CotC.

To make this worse in a recent thread you said you're going to be hitting jungle exp, an important factor for jungle tanks as they tend to be mid-late game champions, many struggle to make anything work pre 6, so having their level 6 pushed back will be devastating. CotC is also confirmed to be getting nerfs, which will hurt jungle tanks as well.

With that in mind, are there any planned buffs to Cinderhulk, an area that can be used to buff jungle tanks in isolation of lane tanks or individual suffering tanks within the role?

Sources for winrates http://na.op.gg/champion/amumu/statistics/jungle http://na.op.gg/champion/gragas/statistics/jungle http://na.op.gg/champion/rammus/statistics/jungle http://na.op.gg/champion/sejuani/statistics/jungle http://na.op.gg/champion/skarner/statistics/jungle http://na.op.gg/champion/zac/statistics/jungle

10 Comments

Jbels1/7/2017, 2:36:06 PM2 votes

Gragas is turning out to be a better assassin than a tank at this point. Love how things come full circle. Welcome back season 3 Gragas

As for tanks in the jungle, if it were just gold income, tanks would be fine. But since they are nerfing jungle EXP, tanks will suffer as well. I honestly wish they would pick one iteration of the jungle and stick with it. There wouldn't be so many damn balance problems if they didn't keep jumping from one version to the next each season. It's not like they change the solo lanes every single season

Dracocrash1/7/2017, 2:17:38 PM1 votes

I wouldn't say skarner is a tank :b

ZephyrDrake1/7/2017, 2:20:54 PM1 votes

skarner and gragas aren't really tanks.... they are more like bruisers than anything else

Troll for Trump1/8/2017, 8:38:34 AM1 votes

From 6.20 to present: Amumu has been at 51% ish Rammus has been 50-52% Nunu was at 56% at 6.20, but has dipped down to sub 50 since.

Maokai and Naut have been abandoned since s4/s5