Jungle and Support: i feel them like two paths of the same road

RebeccaUCuber·11/22/2019, 6:39:28 PM·2 votes·1,723 views

As long as new support items got live. I immediately stopped playing support. I just cannot handle the gold starvation after supp item is completed, i wish vision wasn't so important that I could sell the support item so i can gain some gold by farming or getting kills. But like probably a LOT of main supports here, which way we can flee? I mained support from Lulu's arrival, so it's like a LOT of time. When i play off-role in normal i recognize i lack some skills to be relevant in other roles, especially in solo lanes. Can't quite master last-hitting and even if i documented myself about wave managment, i still find it quite hard when you have to take care about enemy. So...i found myself choosing jungle, and even if it's a unpopular role that pretty makes the game, i found a lot in common with support right now.

-I don't need to be so high in farm, as long i help getting pressure in lane, if i find a free wave it's usually in a empty lane when i cant just last-hit peacefully -As a support, playing jungle as a similar pattern in terms of helping teammates and turning tables in lost fights. -I'm already used to be underleveled, so i know what i can do and when i have to play safe. Especially when solo lanes are lv 6 and i'm 4-5. -As long as my team takes objectives, i dont care if i end up dying in a fight, especially if we get an ace or an inibitor/dragon/etc...

I think Jungle and Support have never been so similar nowadays. I know that there are also jungler that snowball and can destroy evrything alone, but they have to get a massive lead early...and this can also happen in bot lane. Or at least could...before the supp item chages.

-A fed Zyra/Brand ecc could just burst all the team. -A fed tank could just take everything and set up kills -A fed enchanter could do decent dmg and give a lot of buffs to a competent teamate.

So that's why i feel like playing jungle from support is giving me less problems than other lanes. I know you cant just shift from a role to another being perfect in that, but i find many times that enemy jungler also have no clue what they are doing, and i still really suck at jungle!!!

I still hope support items will get some love, cos i'm not touching bot lane again...if i'm not ganking there ofc. I have still a lot to learn but i'm documenting myself and learning the basics, i just feel like a roaming support now with a lot more freedom without a gold cut after a certain amount of time :)

I'm probably a little bit crazy xD It's just i'm still so confused after fleeing my main role!!! Do you think what i feel playing jung too?

2 Comments

Ηuawei11/22/2019, 7:01:27 PM1 votes

Jungling has a lot more involved to it... like knowing the optimal paths for each jungler you pick. Different junglers have different jungling paths to optimize the xp gain cause in jungle lost time means lost xp and gold.

Learn how to gank efficiently, learn how to counter jungle, where is the enemy jungler and how to steal their camps.

Learn how to duel them if need be, learn where to be and when to take objectives.

Support has different priorities and aims and i would not say that jungle and support are similar