why is jungle such a stupid lane?

HasakiMan·1/6/2019, 6:45:20 PM·2 votes·1,520 views

i seriously think that jg is one of the most useless lanes in the game, they literally help other lanes besides yours and all they do is just farm, whenever i play a game i never rely on my jg because he either flames me or be completely useless, like for an example: i'm under my turret and the enemy lane is pushing, i'm playing completely passively and i ping for help and they do nothing, 95% of my games are like that for me and i just really don't understand why this lane exists.

PS: No offense to jg mains

7 Comments

Vesarixx1/6/2019, 6:58:55 PM3 votes

It's a complex role, can be hard to tell what the best move is from a laners perspective, I'm trying to learn it right now, it's basically like the other half of the game after being a laner for all this time. Most junglers below probably at least plat will not have a clue what they're supposed to be doing 60% of the time so they just run around reacting to whatever happens rather than trying to direct the game in any direction.

A i Bot 01/6/2019, 6:57:27 PM2 votes

that's because most jungles don't have good paths set to gank. Also some junglers get to a real spike after some items. There is also a fear that they don't think they can gank successfully. There are many games where if solo laners feed, they end up losing.

If I were you I would call drags or ping the drag through the tab screen. This will get them thinking about your side of the map. As in hey if we don't get any kills bot we can still get something.

Sometimes it takes some interesting words to trigger people in a good way. You should pay attention to your junglers route and ping as they are in the area. ( Be like Hey easy Pickings bot lane)! KAPPA or something lol...

Also you could play some of the junglers you see and see if you'd gank bot in the same scenarios you see.

1 more thing is if your IGN is Toxic sounding. That could be a turn off to these normal junglers :)

GreenKnight1/6/2019, 7:10:56 PM2 votes

Fyi, jungle is a role, not a lane.

BigFBear1/6/2019, 9:01:37 PM1 votes

Lol first of all: Jungle is the most complex "lane", because you usually need more macro game knowledge than laners. Second: Ofc you also farm as Jungler but as laner you farm too with lasthitting minions. I don't like to play lane because lasthitting minions feels way more PvE than jungling. Third: Jungler is not your personal assistant. Just because you don't push doesn't mean that your Jungler has to gank you. As jungler you have so many things to consider. Laners typically don't see that. They just see "oh I play passive since 20 seconds WHERE IS MY JUNGLER?!".

Do you play top maybe? Or what champions do you main? Usually Junglers tend to gank champions who can carry the game. If you play champions like Mao top, good Junglers mostly focus on other lanes because Mao is useful even when behind. But ADCs are not.

Maybe you should play Jungler for some weeks so you can understand that no matter what you do... ONE lane is always flame and blame you. But you can't be everywhere.