Replace Cinderhulk (Please read before judging)

Emperor Time··2 votes·422 views

Hello world.

Ok so far, Riot cannot balance a pure health based jungle item properly. It's either too strong or just completely useless. So I think Cinderhulk needs to be replaced with a new jungle item. Let's face it, junglers need to a somewhat decent amount of damage when they gank. Buying Cinderhulk gives nice stats for a tank jungler, but it gives no damage or buffs to clearspeed. As we can see a lot of tank's are just building Runic Echos to deal damage early and to buff their clear speed. No tanks except for Volibear want this item. So I suggest to replace the item.

Now you're probably going to ask. "well what should Riot replace it with?" Well A lot of tanks like to build Iceborn gauntlet. Why not come out with a jungle item that is similar to Iceborn? It could give health and an aoe slow field like gauntlet, but not give as much CDR or any of the armor that Iceborn gives. It could also give the same aoe damage effect that Runeglaive had, but just for monsters to help with certain tank junglers who have bad clearspeed. I honestly don't think Cinderhulk will ever be good again without being completely busted.

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Chaos Milk Tea2 votes

I was prepared to diss this, but it actually doesn't sound too bad. Tanks love having cc so that they can naturally draw aggro and peel for carries, and would also be able to gank well with the effect.

I don't know if iceborn guantlet is specifically the right effect, but it could be. The difficulty is balancing the effect to work primarily only on tanks so that we don't go breaking fighters by accident. Say for example if it scale off of a defense stat, meaning that it won't really do much outside of ganking if you don't invest in tankiness. It would be a lot more useful early on than cinderhulk which mostly just forces tanks to wait until they are actually very tanky to do anything useful.

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