Played some Tank Junglers lately - anyone feel they're overtuned?

Kouga·11/27/2015, 2:32:36 PM·2 votes·640 views

This is probably old news to everyone, so I assume everyone else has realized how laughably easy the jungle is right now for tank junglers? With everything you can get out of the masteries and the new items, I've had several games where I found I just had 0 difficulty with my jungle route.

My go-to pattern recently has been:

Jungle Shen, start gromp. Once you hit three, go gank something. If you can't get something, go kill the Scuttler. Either way you'll regen enough HP that I'll just continue taking camps, and pretty soon I'm gaining more health than I'm losing. I've had a few games where I've been able to clear-gank-roam-repeat and then go back and buy Cinderhulk outright on my first back. Even if your first gank goes poorly then you just get the other starter item and can still clear with extreme prejudice. Same went for Maokai, Rek'Sai, Nautilus.

Obviously those are all (with the exception of Naut) sustain-tanks but I don't remember them being this easy in terms of clearing with health and then perma-ganking lanes. I'm hoping they just tune back some of the power in the masteries rather than smack the champions themselves, as they tend to do, but its gotten to the point that I am actually thinking "wow this is way too easy."

8 Comments

TeemoJenkins11/27/2015, 3:07:01 PM1 votes

Haven't tried Shen in the new jungle, what runes / masteries are you running? I tried a clear with Sejuani doing an 18/0/12 for the extra mana and cookies. It went ok, and late game she's as great as she always was.

Raidarc11/27/2015, 6:58:19 PM1 votes

I like easy right now, especially when you've got those pesky ADC to worry about and how armor got gutted.

With the increase of price for armor items and all these new ADC items, I feel like we need more tank items.

Dominick Destine11/27/2015, 10:06:51 PM1 votes

Rek Sai has been overpowered for awhile, not on Lee level but still too strong.

Notice her constant presence in Worlds...

Duke Anax11/27/2015, 10:25:00 PM1 votes

I recently played a lot of Soraka jungle and even that feels ridiculously overtuned.

Soraka ... Jungle -,-

Better Jungler11/27/2015, 10:31:19 PM1 votes

dunno what you consider tank jungler. but ive been on an absolute rampage with volibear, udyr, and hecarim, all built extremely tanky. actually just lost my first game with volibear in probably 7-8 matches?