This preseason makes me worried about jungle health.

Nidken·Nov 13, 2016·2 votes·255 views

If anything good came from season 6 it would be that the jungle became accessible to all junglers. Every jungle champion seemed at equal with the enemy and every jungler appeared fundamentally balanced in the jungle environment. In some cases, even offrole champions like Karthus and Ezreal were performing well in this role.

This season, with the absence of smite rewards and the arrival of new complicated camps, I'm worried about jungle health. Shaco can not afford to clear raptors, and Fiddlesticks has to spend half the game clearing krugs.

Im worried that as the new jungle meta is revealed, only a few champions are going to be worth playing competatively.

2 Comments

Mira Arya EntheNov 13, 20162 votes

A: Not everyone should be able to clear the jungle. Just as not everyone can be effective as an ADC or Support or Mid or Top.

B: Only a few champions are always worth playing competitively as in LCS. Gold and below everything is viable but the absolute worst champions, and One-Tricks make anything viable at high tiers. But generally only 3-5 champions from each role are ever LCS viable.

C: I do agree the new jungle needs some work, but part of the point is that good ganking junglers are not suppose to clear it easily, so they do not completely outpace more farm focused junglers.

D: Jungle was immensely imbalanced in S6, it was the most OP role in the game and a few select junglers were insanely overpowered in it.