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As a solo player in a premade world, riot is making the jungle unbearable!

Eugoogalizer·4/20/2016, 4:47:40 PM·3 votes·417 views

It's bad enough for a solo jungler to play the jungle role. As a solo player, it's annoying to have to deal with a premade invading your first buff every other game because their trio works well together in a coordinated fashion while my team ignores it. Still, it's something I've learned to deal with knowing it's going to happen. Now we get this crap?

"When a camp that has a timer (Red, Blue, Dragon, Baron, Rift Herald) has less than 60 seconds to spawn, its timer is revealed to both teams "

I can't even explain how annoying it's going to be seeing a mid, top, and jungler constantly pushing me out of my blue because they are some type of team speak. Meanwhile my top and jungler continue to farm because we aren't premade. I don't know, I could be blowing it out of proportion, but I don't see these timers helping the solo player at all.

While I'm on the topic, why does riot keep dumbing down the jungle with timers? I loved it when there weren't any timers. It was an advantage to the better jungler because one had to keep track of times from buffs to dragons. Since then they added timers when vision was available to now where its visible to everyone regardless of vision? Why is the game becoming so streamlined? Is this a casual movement?

1 Comments

DrCyanide4/20/2016, 5:00:29 PM1 votes

As a Laner, I understand timers in general. Memorizing the respawn timers, on top of learning everything else in the game, felt like a poor mechanic. Only knowing for camps that you saw die made sense too, since those were the ones you had knowledge of. Expanding the timers to Baron or Dragon made sense as well, since they gave global notifications that they were down.

But timers for camps you can't see die? That's just Riot trying to set up more fights...

I know about 6 months ago I went on a spree as Veigar stealing enemy Blue Buffs level 2 (since every Jungler was on their own by then). It was lots of fun for me, but not so much for them. I can only see these changes causing more of that, regardless of Solo or Premade.