Is this a good time to main jungle?
I understand many people are leaving the role, but is it still playable if you find your place?
I understand many people are leaving the role, but is it still playable if you find your place?
Jungle sucks right now... i am carrying harder with support atm
it's playable only if you're either gigasmurfing and getting 6/0 leads OR if you enjoy being a second support for your glorious ADC. Otherwise it's not worth to play this role right now
Ok, so.....it's complicated.
Jungle is good role to play and main, but, you will need to understand a few things.
But first thing first, ignore what the other 2 guys said.
Now, on the main thing, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbdrED2fTo
Jungle is still a strong role if you can adapt to changes, and I can't stress that as much as it should. YOU NEED TO ADAPT. You see all the people "I can't be 5 levels ahead of my solo laners, jungle sucks" or "I'm not the main carry anymore, jungle sucks". Jungle isn't an easy role, takes a lot of adapting that's not only patch to patch basis, but game to game basis. Routes, champs, match-ups, etc and for the jungle it's mode different from other lanes, as both the champs you and the enemy jungler play change things, but also the routes taken.
Where did they start, what can they do, what match-up would they want to influence? If the enemy is a Lee and you deduce he wants to influence top lane, and his red is on bot side, you should start on blue side just to make it so that when he reaches top lane, you're also there.
I see a lot of "jungle mains" who basically have no tracking skills. They know their champion, they know that 1 route they did for the last 3 seasons and won't change it no matter how bad it may be right now. They lack objective focus and even if they get ahead, they have no idea how to use it (AND STOP GETTING LIANDRY'S TORMENT ON EVELYNN). Had such a game earlier today, I got ganked early and the enemy laner got an advantage, but she was bad, like, she knew how to play as Akali, but that's all, yet no matter how many times I asked Eve to help, she refused. She tried once when I was in base, almost died and basically never came top again all game, if not for our mid Va(a)rus ganking for me, that match could've ended differently. That Akali died to each and every actual gank, and soon started dying 1v1 as well because she still thought she's stronger, and even tho our Eve got fed because the enemy team was dumb, she didn't know to take objectives, where to gank, all she did most of the game was AFK farm, and for the most of the game, she was behind in both KP and farm to Twitch.
My advice? Try the role, see if you like it. The vid I shared you has a lot of good info you can use, some nice champ recommendation, but do keep in mind that the role is stupidly intensive when it comes to macro play. If you doubt you can keep up with that level of macro, then don't try the role.
I swear macro play loses more games than anything for junglers. You can be a godlike Lee, if you only play for kills and nothing else, even if you may win once in a while because of that, it won't always work.