Are other jungle upgrades worth getting?

footfoe·5/7/2015, 10:39:31 PM·1 votes·586 views

So im starting getting back into playing summoner's rift instead of howling abyss and crystal scar and am not used to the new jungle items. It seems to me that cinderhulk is far and away the best upgrade and even AD bruisers should build it.
I want to play nocturne because he seem very easy to play. The game suggests Devourer. This makes sense because he scales mainly on attack speed. However it seems cinderhulk offers much more value.

what do you think about this?

4 Comments

Nameless Voice5/7/2015, 10:52:35 PM1 votes

It really depends what you want.

Cinderhulk is very strong if you plan to build more health items or enjoy being in the thick of longer fights, building up your burn damage. Magus is great for squishy mage junglers who want more damage and CDR rather than being more tanky. Warrior is for AD junglers who are more interested in dealing more damage than in being tanky. Devourer is situational, it's for attack-speed junglers who want to deal damage.

The other enchantments trade being able to deal more damage for being less tanky. Assassin and carry junglers probably want to build them.

Jaygo415/7/2015, 11:15:21 PM1 votes

While other people would like to tell you that other things have their place, the enchantment that clearly brings the most upside and least downside is cinderhulk right now, until it's nerfed next patch.

IcyPepper5/7/2015, 11:18:32 PM1 votes

Cinderhulk is only good if you build hp items, and the %bonus HP is for late game and the passive is better for early clearing. You can pick it up on bruisers if you want, but don't build it first (you need that early game damage for effective ganks, unless you have enough cc to lock someone down for a laner to kill).

Warrior is a great early game AD burst item, Magus provides stats early and cheap for AP champions, and Devourer... is really niche.

Warrior and Cinderhulk are best to me, one is for early game damage and the other is for late-game monstrocity. I don't play a lot of AP junglers (Fiddlesticks and Diana tho) and I hardly if ever build devourer unless I want to be a farmer.

footfoe5/7/2015, 11:25:37 PM1 votes

well specifically nocturne he has does alot with attack speed. I wonder if devourer is just a noob trap item even on attack speed champions.

my build would be. machette > stalkers > Cutlass > finish enchantment > BOrk > Giants belt > whatever