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These Plants Will Ruin The Jungle

Its Scarce Here·10/15/2016, 10:34:00 PM·2 votes·516 views

These plants are an understandable idea and I get that they're trying to make the game more interesting, but the last thing we need in this game is more RNG.

The dragon RNG has already made solo queue and competitive games way more inconsistent than they really should be, some games you'll get absolutely useless drakes and there's no reason to even get them/contest them. Having more RNG in the jungle is going to be super unhealthy for low elo players, making it more complicated to jungle than it already is for them. Low elo struggles to handle all the things a jungle needs to do: hold lanes, path correctly, keep track of enemy jungle, look for Gank opportunities, Drake calls, baron calls, vision control, invading, and everything else. With jungle already being the hardest position to learn by far, it is going to make it even more of a challenge for new players to learn.

Some people enjoy certain clear paths for certain champions, and these changes will make it extremely less beneficial to follow heir paths in most cases. I'm pretty sure these changes were made to change up pathing, but all it does is make it harder and Antifun. Nobody wants to be clearing their golems then see a plant spawn over by gromp, it's just annoying and inconvenient. I do not think there should be another RNG factor in this game, with drakes being enough of a problem.

3 Comments

Stephenizgod10/15/2016, 10:39:07 PM1 votes

The dragons don't really have that large of an effect, the RNG creates more decisions and allows for different strategies other than "omg gotta get drag". If you don't think you need Air Drake, let enemy have it while you take another objective. If you want Inferno, you fight over it. Its equal for both sides, it doesn't really favor one side over the other.

These plants might be something similar, although with a bit more RNG to it. I say we wait until there is a lot more information on them before jumping to conclusions. At the very least how about we keep a positive outlook on this? If it ends up being a bad idea, Riot has already stated they will likely pull it if nothing can make it work. So lets just go into trying to be positive and see how it turns out before making posts like this.