Nerf junglers because top laners are abusing jungle items

Visigoth·May 6, 2015·3 votes·431 views

Yep, sounds about right. I don't see why the changes are supposedly to help stop smite/tp top from being cancer, but in turn just damage junglers even more. LANES abuse a jungle item, so lanes are punished. I don't see why Riot couldn't just tack the %HP onto a different item. Cinderhulk could've been completely untouched stat and passive-ramping wise, and just had the %HP moved to a new item (or even Warmogs).

It's pretty obvious people want the %HP, and the Challenging Smite and AoE is just icing on the icing of the cake. As long as people still get %hp I don't think nerfs really matter much. The item could give literally 0 HP and no AoE, and people would buy it because you're still getting like 2k HP from the passive.

2 Comments

shalecMay 6, 20151 votes

If people were buying it ONLY because of the %HP, then we would've seen Season 4's Ancient Golem on laners. Cinderhulk was nerfed to bias it towards junglers, giving the item better clear speed in exchange for some damage to champions. I really don't see how these changes damage junglers because all it really did was shift some of the power into clearing speed which was the only problem tanks had in the jungle pre 5.5 anyway.