Sejuani jungle clear weak
UPDATE: My OP was incorrect. I was trying to max E first like i used to before the jungle update after taking 2 points in W for better ganks and chaining slows. Can't do this anymore. Just have to max w and she purrs along just fine. Switching out a few armor seals for scaling health my have helped too but minimally I'm guessing.
I have been going through all my jungle champs figuring out how to balance building for a sufficiently fast clear while also building for my role. I have been successful with all of them to one extent or another with a single major exception:
Sejuani.
Despite her massive amounts of aoe damage, Sejuani has proven to have one of the worst clears throughout the game of any jungle I have played. Her first clear is her best clear which is, by comparison, still very weak. And it's all downhill from there.
Due to the scaling of the jungle, after her first clear, sejuani can't clear more than a few camps without taking a significant amount of damage even while building full tank. Her high early cool downs and the nature of her w force her to go toe to toe with jungle monsters much longer than most champions. Other champions such as amumu who have the same issue have better damage output through lower cool downs and better scaling that allow them to do so without being hurt by it nearly as badly as poor sejuani.
It's pretty sad when you play a jungler a few times and find yourself game after game hoping your midlaner will die while you're heading to raptors just so you can mooch some lane farm in the hope of catching up to your adc’s level. You can't even gank well because you're so under farmed/leveled that you become more of a liability in lane than a help most of the time beyond the use of your ultimate.
This all doesn't even consider how bad sejuani is at defending her jungle when being invaded by just about any other jungler in the game. If you look at the damage Sejuani puts out through autos and abilities over the course of a single skill rotation, I would almost guarantee she is one of the lowest in the game. So not only is she farming at a significantly lower pace than everyone else, she can't even defend her farm at the same level (and you won't be the same level because you can't farm so there's that too).
Riot please consider giving this champion some love. Also while balancing first clears is important with the new jungle, I would strongly urge you to look at clearing ability over time as well given the new scaling in the jungle. I and many others have adapted as best we can to the new changes but sejuani seems to not have any options available to adapt.
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