New Jungle XP and Early Ganking
So after playing for a while in the new jungle, as I am a main jungler, I made some observations about it. The changes seem to be greatly aimed at playstyle diversity. Yet I find that there is on thing that happens regularly.
If you get chances to make good ganks early, you get quite fed and are able to carry the game; if your team is pushing/enemies are tower hugging for the first 10 minutes, you will greatly fall behind laners, especially in XP and therefore level.
Farming the jungle does not seem to give you a comparable amount of XP to lanes. And this is a bit annoying because sometimes you just will not have any windows to gank. And if that happens you become mostly useless.
I think a good solution could be adopting something like the gold, where the amount of XP that you get from the camps is increased if you have a jungler item (to prevent stuff like bot lane stealing camps early).
All this because I still feel like ganking and getting kills early still IS the only really viable way to carry games, but sometimes you just DON'T get the chance to do it, even if you want to. And this goes for assassins mostly but even for fighters and tanks. If you don't get kills early you fall behind massively, and from there you will just be almost useless, or a human shield for carries at best.
I am kind of sick of my ability to carry completely relying on if I can get kills early, because that is kind of situational and not always an option. Now I am not saying that ganking should not be rewarded, infact I likethe fact that you get big rewards for being very active, I like doing it myself. But I would like to see it being less punishing if you just don't get any ganking windows early.
What do you think about this? Thanks for reading. Keep positive and give constructive criticism please. :)