Pre 10 Jungle

Jungle Sox·Nov 20, 2014·2 votes·812 views

Dear Riot; I was playing on my smurf account practicing the new preseason and let me tell you... The jungle is WAY WAY WAY too hard for players under 10.

With the inability to pick up smite OR a jungle item there is no possible way a pre 10 can play the role of jungle. My main is gold v so I know how to play jungle and even with my movement in jungle to avoid AA from mobs, armor, masteries, I either have to back right after a camp or die at the 2nd or 3rd after.

Every single game that I have played with a Jungler in preseason has either fed, rage quit, or was successful through smite. I unfortunately fed (the jungle mob) so hard that my top laner raged and intentional fed because i was too far behind to help him gank his losing lane.

5 Comments

Bears Dont CareNov 20, 20142 votes

They made smite a level 10 ability because that is when you are able to buy runes. It makes little sense for people to try and jungle before then because they cannot impact the game at all with the new jungle difficulty.

m3rcyNov 20, 20142 votes

I think the point was to avoid subjecting the new comers to jungle and ganks until lvl10. U should be going dual top like all beginners. Riot could give smurfs the ability to go straight to lvl10 and maybe jump to lvl30 with some sort of placement matches. The downside would be to many smurf account creation for the purpose of trolling or profits from selling accounts.

Leti the YetiNov 20, 20141 votes

im pretty sure i had smite since lvl4 and i found that high sustain junglers are the best for low lvl jungling.. like idk warwick

Jungle SoxNov 21, 20141 votes

I dont buy any runes until level 30 anyway. All the other runes tiers are just a waste of IP. Before pre season I was able to jungle with the same account as I am using now (smurf) and was able to land ganks and affect the game.

Now I feel that I am forced into a meta with little strategic options because you can see all the champs all the time and if you dont you back away until you can see them