An idea to make AFK farming junglers work better

Linna Excel·Aug 4, 2015·2 votes·346 views

Right now AFK farmers are kind of bad for the game as they do nothing for 15-20 minutes to help their teams.

So here's the idea to fix them: reward them for at least trying to counter jungle. Devourer? Let it get 2 stacks per large monster for being in the enemy jungle and you get an extra 50 gold for killing a champ in his own jungle. Poachers knife could be a part of it too. Smite a monster in the enemy jungle and for the next minute, you do a little bonus damage to enemy champs on hit. Maybe you could get this buff in lieu of the normal one you'd get while in the enemy jungle. Encourage an invade then gank pattern.

I also think you should do something that rewards a power farmer for leaving the jungle. Lets say cannon minions count as a large jungle mob for devourer and helping to take a tower gives you two stacks.

2 Comments

TeemoJenkinsAug 4, 20151 votes

Better idea: Instead of changing items to change player behavior, pick a ganking jungler and annihilate their team with consistency so people stop crying about their jungler afk farming?

ShikigamiAug 4, 20152 votes

Right now devourer jungles are at their strongest. If you path effectively, you can get a completed devourer at 16 minutes. That being said, if your laners are passive and don't get ganked/dived, you win the game as you'll have so much raw damage from a single item (especially on Shyvana, holy crap).

Maybe pick up wards when you have an AFK farm jungler. Especially in lower elo where players have no idea when/how to gank, it's much more reliable to just farm up and teamfight at your powerspike ... and don't cry about it.