Is Ganking Too Easy?
So awhile back I'm pretty sure that I read that Riot doesn't want to buff farming jungle because statistically "its too good" or "better". (something along those lines), but is it really?
I mean sure you have guaranteed gold and exp sitting there waiting for you in jungle, or you have a guaranteed gold and exp sitting in lane. Before someone gets angry at me for saying ganking is guaranteed gold and exp let me explain.
So I just played a game where I started with a cloth armor and +5 armor from runes. Right now on this boards whenever I want to talk about base starting resistances a chunk of the community "But starting with 20 bonus armor will shut down the enemy from doing anything". I call bull shit.
Level 3 hits zed does half of my health with his combo and electrocute. Wozah 1/2 of my hp gone just because I'm an immobile champion with a large hit box. Well lane continues since I started with pots. Pots complete graves jumps in to gank zed half healths me with his combo graves half health me with a dash auto q. Well fuck I'm dead since I didn't immediately blow flash. Level 5 comes around graves ganks, I auto blow flash. Level 6 comes oh boy guess who gets to die. Thats right the guy that started with defense.
How does this lane look if I build damage instead of defense? Well I just die anyways because you either out mobility the enemy or you are guarenteed dead. So yes jungle ganks to lanes with lower mobility are just free money bags + exp + Armor plating gold for the enemy.
This dilemma took me awhile why were junglers so much less oppressive in previous seasons?
After awhile it hit me. Jungle camps used to not only be harder to clear, they took more time, and left the jungler at a lower hp. If the jungler ganked you might actually be able to kill the jungler unless they were super ahead. To top it off they could fall behind if the gank didn't go well. Now if the gank doesn't go well they just go back to jungle where even if they start at 100 hp they can just clear a camp. I used to die to jungle monsters if I tried that.
My proposal: Make jungle difficult again. Lets have it back to where ganking is a risk, possibly even a time waste.
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