Lower the jungle camp respawn timers

Bears Dont Care·1/25/2019, 11:17:23 AM·4 votes·2,307 views

I know there is the concern of pwoer farmers as Riot Maple mentioned earlier, but the changes which were enacted seem to favor strong early game junglers in an unhealthy way. For example, champions such as Lee Sin, Xin Zhao, Udyr, Twitch, and Elise will still perform a level 2 gank because of the nature of their design. As you did not alter the respawn timers, the opportunity cost for repeatedly ganking between camps is relatively low. If you decrease jungle camp spawn timers to go along with the gold/exp nerfs, I think it will create a healthier balance for the two types of champions. Chain ganking will have a heavier cost, and result in less ganks because of the loss of gold/exp which would lead to the other jungler counter jungling them as punishment.
This in turn makes their ganks much weaker and easier to survive, while also reducing the effectiveness of a level 2 gank due to opportunity cost.

I would also recommend altering the exp/gold provided by scuttle. It provides too large an amount of gold, and while it does stimulate more combat, champions who are strong in early dueling will win with ease. Champions such as Evelynn simply cannot contest the crab against champions such as Udyr and Lee Sin.

If you simply remove scuttle crab entirely that would also remove one of the snowballing issues, and serve to decrease the total gold/exp provided to junglers as well.

Of course, this new patch landed and everyoe is figuring out the new way to play, but I do believe people will simply remain with the ever popular chain gankers.

1 Comments

keccak2561/25/2019, 1:56:57 PM1 votes

... stop nerfing jungle because of a few problem junglers....

instead, work on those champs.

theres nothing exciting about having a plethora of junglers, but only seeing the same 5 or 6 picked.