Is it worth maining jungle?
Would like some opinions on starting to main jungle to climb the ranked ladder, i currently main Adc/Mid, i feel like i'm not having much impact in games lately and wondering if jungling would be a good wait to fix that.
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You should probably stick to Mid for a couple of reasons.
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Lanes are much easier to solo snowball out of than being in the jungle, while also having less responsibilities.
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Mid lane can roam to anywhere on the map almost as easily as a jungler can.
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Mid lane champions are easier to carry with than Top lane champions.
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ADC requires a decent support, which throws the role choice into a gamble.
Junglers also get flamed a lot, even when you're making all the correct decisions.
Playing jungle will indeed impact the whole game but it's just sad to play jungle cuz people will just blame you... for everything
A: can you micromanage 4 things at once
B: have control over dragon, baron, Herald, scuttle, vision
C: Do you hate yourself Do you feel comfortable being the decider of who is worth helping and who isn't, while also being a pivotal reason to whether a game wins or loses (5 drags, baron etc)
It entirely depends on how much time you want to put into things. It's a time sink and a terribly big one compared to other roles.
Better off playing support if you aren't. New junglers suck at jungling. Decent junglers suck at jungling when Rito trolls all the junglers by changing it completely.
I kinda main jungle... so here's my lousy, silver ELO two cents.
Perks... You affect the game more than anyone. You can gank winning lanes to snowball them, help failing lanes to save them, bully the enemy jungler and ward EVERYWHERE. Only mid comes close to being able to do as much as jungle can. You can also play many roles... tank, initiator, carry, assassin... even mage sorta... I mean, fiddle exists. It's a versitile role. You can carry a team or set up people hard. The jungler wins lanes more than his laners do a lot of the time.
Downside... Expect to meet a LOT of assholes. You WILL get teams that feed 5 kills in 5 minutes, then rage at you for not winning every single one of their lanes at once. If all your lanes are garbage the game is frustrating as hell, and you can't do much of ANYTHING. Especially if you're a support-type jungler. If you're a carry jungler... best hope you don't have a team of 4 more people who all picked glass cannon damage dealers too. Everyone will treat you like you're their servant and expect you to help THEM. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. No matter how much or little you could do, expect every losing lane to blame you... somehow.
It's worth maining, but I'd suggest if you do, you learn to mute people a lot or get REALLY thick skinned. People are jerks to the jungler.
Playing jungle is very different than playing lanes, and every champion who plays the jungle plays incredibly differently. Champs like Naut and Sejuani will want to try and gank hard, Mastery Yi, Shyvana, Jax, etc would rather power farm, Udyr, nunu, Shaco, and similar ones are great at objective control and stealing/invading. Biggest thing would be learning how to fight Lee Sin, as he will generally be an issue for most junglers since his kit so very strong and forgiving. It seems like you would rather go a jungle carry like Graves, Yi, Shyvana, Quinn, and Jax. They have good damage and can end up becoming a massive threat with a few items, which will let them Carry the game easily. I would recommend watching people like Stonewall or PantsAreDragon for some tips about jungling.
You should try to main jungle because it's invaluable. Once you understand how jungle works you can lane much better too.
dont bother
its always the junglers fault
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Would like some opinions on starting to main jungle to climb the ranked ladder, i currently main Adc/Mid, i feel like i'm not having much impact in games lately and wondering if jungling would be a good wait to fix that.
honestly, not if you want to climb. it's really hard to consistently carry every single game as a jungler.
much easier as an actual carry that can farm a lane
I feel Jungling requires the most strategy out of all the roles in league. So if you're about that life then go for it. Unfortunately even if you do everything well, if your team sucks, then you have to bail them out or die trying. In which its your fault for everything. Which is why I don't jungle.
if you like getting blamed for everything sure.
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Would like some opinions on starting to main jungle to climb the ranked ladder, i currently main Adc/Mid, i feel like i'm not having much impact in games lately and wondering if jungling would be a good wait to fix that.
if you can control objectives then yes its good for carrying
however jg gets a lot less gold than lanes so in that sense it is worse for carrying b/c you rely more on kills to get items vs more reliable cs
honestly sometimes jg in solo q feels like you're trying to plug up 3 holes in a sinking ship and you can only be 1 spot at a time
I Mained mid and now main jung. You can roam so much more and help influence your team and the game easier. Plus you don't have to micro manage farming
you don't feel like you're having much impact in a carry role like ADC or Mid, I can't imagine you feeling much more impactful as a jungler, where you get less god and experience.
I think Jungle is the #1 most picked spot for solo players, given how often I see people complaining about how they queue up primarily for it and see it 3% of the time.
Though I could be wrong.
You need to be good at map awareness, warding, and micromanagement as well. The vision game is huge and, in many ways, you will be extremely helpful early in the game (unless you are Sated upon which you usually get useful mid-game).