[Question]: Darius Jungle

Agent Corgi·2/10/2020, 5:53:27 AM·2 votes·1,370 views

I remember reading Scruffy's post regarding the "Widening of the Jungle Pool", One of the champions he mentioned that they were looking into was .

So I got to thinking about how they can make Darius Jungle even better & I came up with 2 possible changes:

When hitting the outer part of [Q: Decimate] on a Jungle camp (Preferrable large monsters like red/blue buff, big wolf, big raptor, Gromp & Big Krug), Darius heals as if he hit a champion with his Q.
When activating [W: Crippling Strike], Darius gains movespeed towards enemy champions, similar to Sett's [Q: Knuckledown].

What do you guys think?

5 Comments

Zerenza2/10/2020, 7:20:22 AM1 votes

I think that i'd much rather want to see a larger variety of Champion Classes than another 2 Bruiser's like Darius and Garen; context, there's already 20 bruiser's in the jungle of the 39 jungler's and every single one is viable. I think that overall he's not going to be a good jungler for ganking but Invading which is already a major problem with the jungle Meta and i honestly don't want it Exemplified.

For your changes the change to his Q would make him one of the strongest jungler's in the game, he'd be healthy from every camp, not be limited to taking Single Target camps like most Bruiser's(A weakness that they need to keep them fair.) and he'd be able to invade those same bruiser's and because he's darius he'll probably win. The change to his W would make him too strong in lane, which they specifically said they wanted to only add changes that wouldn't affect their Lane's.

"Widening the jungle champion pool" shouldn't mean adding more Bruiser's to a role already over saturated with viable ones. I'd rather see Mage's, AP Assassins, Tanks and Marksmen i'm sick of bruiser's.

TrueDamage Ninja2/10/2020, 8:10:42 AM1 votes

No.

Wild Geese2/10/2020, 12:16:00 PM1 votes

Making Darius jungle decent, I don't think either thing would really do it... He doesn't really need the heal because he has enough armor and regen. There's nothing you should really do to make this guy gank better, since it'd affect his lane too much, but if he could powerfarm better maybe he'd be ok.

So basically you'd want to increase his clear speed by a good amount, probably by giving his Q edge damage bonus damage vs monsters, or maybe even buffing his passive against monsters. Just increase damage in the jungle, this can make up for a lot.