My favorite jungle was the S5 Jungle and I think it should come back

XinCrin·6/22/2018, 8:35:33 PM·1 votes·846 views

Jungle used to be my favorite role, I played Lee Sin and Rengar primarily but also played things like J4, Kha'zix, and Elise. I however slowly shyed away from the jungle role over the years to now I don't even play jungle in ranked anymore. Regardless of whether or not jungle was OP or not (Junglers were insanley powerful at different points over the years and at times insanley weak, support esque role), I just did not enjoy jungle anymore.

What I enjoyed about season 5 jungle was:

  • the various smite buffs you get from smiting different camps. Raptors gave the oracle, wolves gave you a little scout, gromp gave a mini thorn mail and so on. I thought this was really cool and it gave meaning to each of the various camps. Now it's just farm the camps so you get xp and gold and riot trying to give the camps a "personality" like giving chickens more chickens or krugs spawning tinier krugs. I thought this was just tedious, especially krugs and I really don't enjoy it. Not to mention this shafted some junglers like Elise who can't clear the chickens as well as other junglers who had some aoe like Graves.

-The different smite colors, purple smite for sustain, blue smite for ganking, red smite for dueling, green smite for warding, and though no one really used white smite, white smite was kind of a cool concept of counter jungling. This was a good idea, but now all we have is blue smite and red smite. Also this is a opinion but i feel like most people opt for red smite just because of how overloaded it is, so there really is not that much diversity.

-This is debatable but I kind of miss the old dragon system. I think the new elemental dragons are super rng based and it feels incredibly unfair when infernal dragon spawns first and there is a warwick or a fiddle jungle on the enemy team who just take away those dragons at level 3 and give the enemy team a huge lead. The old dragon system made sense with the first dragon gave a okay buff that slowly gave better buffs if you took more and more dragons. You can afford to give away the first dragon if you wanted to, but now it is all RNG. If it is a red or a ocean dragon first, enemy team ends up with a huge lead. There was no RNG with the old dragon and while the old dragon was "boring" and it had some problems, I feel like it was healthier for the game.

These are my biggest problems with the new jungle that just leaves me not enjoying it any more. I just really hate riot removing good ideas and implementing shitty ideas. Please consider reverting jungle.

1 Comments

ReshiKillim6/23/2018, 11:19:36 PM1 votes

Parts of it should never return, mainly devourer, current dragons is fine imo, the diff buffs would need some tuning but it was nice having them. Same with the various smites.