The New Jungle Items. Your Thoughts and Experiences. POST THEM

PaltrySun·7/21/2015, 3:49:18 AM·2 votes·497 views

Am I the only one that thinks that the newest jungle items need a serious balancing? Games literally are decided on the new devour enchantment. And its not just that its completely overpowered but League is a game of team work and having a jungle always carry a game not because the are really strong players but because they spent the first 20-30 minutes farming the jungle camps seems to be very counter intuitive. I will admit that I am guilty of using the new items and I agree that playing with them is very gratifying but I'm not a better player because of it. I'm not a seasoned player but I can certainly see the drastic shift. League went from mostly balanced to completely unbalanced in just a few patches and I want to understand why the RIOT team decided to induct game breaking capabilities into the League experience.

4 Comments

vC48YNoGbJ7/21/2015, 4:00:08 AM3 votes

Why boards think that anecdote is a replacement for evidence/statistics when trying to argue a point?

UltraSceptile7/21/2015, 4:03:22 AM3 votes

Games are now decided between who gets Udyr, Shyvana, Master Yi, Kayle, with honorable mentions to jax and warwick. It's like cinderhulk meta where you had gragas and sejuani, with honorable mentions to amumu, volibear, rek sai, and vi, and before with lee sin, jarvan, vi, and rek sai.

The devourer one is just slightly more bullshit than the cinderhulk one because it has very little counterplay. People always say counterjungle, yet it's not like these champs are exactly weak early on. Shyvana and udyr can clear their jungle in the time it takes rengar to do blue buff, kayle and master yi can almost do the same. It gives you a very small window to be able to kill them, and even if you do they'll still get it eventually. It's strongest at 20 minutes, but if you get it at 30 minutes you'll still be an unkillable monster.

But out of all of this Shyvana's just so fucking retarded I beg my first pick to ban her every game because you literally cannot counter jungle her nor can you try to delay her devourer, because if you even take a small step into your jungle she'll come flying out as a dragon three shotting you while being unkitable with that massive speed boost. I don't know a single champ who can beat her at all except maybe a really experienced shaco but he gets outscaled so hard it's ridiculous. If she's on the enemy team I groan in real life and can feel the elo sucking out of me.

hawk eye 257/21/2015, 4:19:41 AM3 votes

i agree with this point and you gave great point about the new jungle item. At times especially with the new jungle item on master yi he he just ult in kill everything he was already op to begin with and now he is even more op. its just kill the fun out of the game and as you said the teamwork and objective have no purpose anymore.