@RIOT Kled Jungle Balance Proposition

Grouchy Poro·7/27/2016, 10:15:25 PM·8 votes·2,031 views

((TL;DR at the bottom))

Alright, so currently on the PBE Kled does not gain courage when fighting jungle camps, and in response to this topic Riot Harrow said (quoted from S@20),

"It's possible we might change how he gets courage in the future, but for now I don't want him to feel like he should leave-" "fights to go farm jungle to remount."

This is a very fair reason, as Kled is not meant to be rewarded for being passive compared to going 'all in' as the theme seems to be. Many people agree however that Kled jungle would be something that could be much more fun and viable if it was possible to remount Skaarl while jungling (myself included, though I am a top lane main so I'm gonna play him anyways :P).

My suggestion would be to give courage generation against jungle camps, but only if Kled has smite as a summoner spell. Hell it could even be balanced around only working on jungle monsters you've smote. That way Kled junglers could jungle, without buffing lane Kled's ability to remount Skaarl between late game fights.

I don't know how easy this would be able to be coded, or if it goes against the Riot clarity policy, but what does the community think?

TL;DR: Tie courage generation to smite so only jungle Kled can farm jungle camps to remount Skaarl.

4 Comments

Starfish H7/28/2016, 6:17:43 AM2 votes

I'd say give 25 courage for killing large monsters. That's 4 camp worth. So unless the top laner wants to clear blue side then scuttle he's going to have to stick top. This also would help Kled as he could clear first camp then buff camp then scuttle then raptor or wolves then other buff camp. Slows down his clear but makes it easier and safer.

IPromiseTomorrow7/28/2016, 3:42:53 PM2 votes

How about he gains courage from attacking enemy jungle camps. It would fit with his theme about being fearless and also reward risky play.

Deneviel7/27/2016, 11:33:27 PM1 votes

Or they could just make kled regain courage while hitting Camp bosses ... like golem/liz/drag and Baron