Jungle objectives are currently worthless in comparison to kills. Please fix this for the mid-season

Yenn··3 votes·1,489 views

I actually can't stand to play jungle anymore, because chain ganking has become the only way to impact games, and your ability to even gank a lane at all is largely dictated by your team mates and their picks.

In the past, you would often play around bottom side in order to try to secure the first dragon. Right now, it's more effective to just give up dragon if you can get a kill in top lane, because it gets a snowball going and provides you with more EXP and gold than the dragon would. The dragon buffs are incredibly weak in the early game, and by the time the buffs start to scale up, it's too late and the game has already been decided.

The lack of reward for securing objectives offers no alternative win condition or opportunity to influence the game when you aren't able to play aggressively, which in turn makes the role feel like a massive coin flip, because whether or not you even have the option of chain ganking is often completely outside of your control.

Everyone who plays jungle knows how hopeless games feel when all three of your lanes are permanently pushed to the turret or losing too hard to gank. The only 'useful' thing you can do in these scenarios is try to take objectives, but even if you get all of them, it does little to nothing to win the game.

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Yenn1 votes

I just had a game as Kindred where I counter-jungled the enemy Camille hard in the early game, taking her entire bottom side jungle and three buffs. She got a level 1 kill from invading our top lane. I picked up 1 kill and 1 assist in top lane, and countered Camille's gank at bottom lane and picked up 2 more assists, being 1-0-4 while Camille was 1-0-1.

Then, while I was doing dragon, she picked up 2 kills at top lane and a huge wave. Despite having lost every single interaction with me up to this point, the two kills and wave she exchanged for dragon gave her a massive advantage over me, to the point I could no longer fight her because she was almost one shotting me if she landed a hookshot.

This is fucking stupid. There is no world in which it makes sense for securing objectives to be less valuable than farming kills.

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