Just a Reminder of the Jungle's Role

Woodakoodashooda··3 votes·214 views

What a Jungle Does:

Farms camps for gold and exp. Places wards down at key points such as blue and red (enemy and/or ally), dragon, and baron. Secures jungle objectives such as blue and red (ally and/or enemy), dragon, baron, and, occasionally, herald. Ambushes vulnerable enemies to secure kills and turrets.

What a Jungle Does NOT Do:

Save allies from their mistakes. Gank losing lanes. Gank fed enemies. Provide help whenever asked.

Every player has the right to choose. What position you play, what champion you play, what champion you ban if allowed. And like every other decision in life, those choices have consequences both positive and negative. When you are faced with the negative consequences of poor decision making, the likelihood of someone bailing you out are minimal.

Either play your role or, at the very least, try not to die while your opponent does their job.

2 Comments

VoidStaresBack2 votes

As with everything, this is situational, but yes, people shouldn't expect to get bailed out by their jungler. On the flip side, if the jungler can bail them out, they should do so if it won't lose their team some advantage, because it denies the enemy team a kill and, in the best case scenario, score a kill or tower for their team.

tl;dr summary of the OP: The jungler is not your bitch, it's not their job to turn your lane around for you. If they think they can, they'll probably try, but if they're not coming to your lane they either don't think you need help, don't see a good opportunity to go in, or aren't confident that their efforts could actually save your lane.

Edit: Relevant video by Scrap Computer

Ark Sorcerer2 votes

It is so annoying for that top laner to keep constantly pinging me because she (Akali) was ganked and out a level behind her lane opponent and I got all the hate for not ganking the ahead Sion with the non cc Akali. I have seen it too many times and hate playing with people who think I am suppose to just magically going to save their lane..... just to ? ping me when I die.

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