Champion circles are healthy for the game, food chains aren't.

PiggyTheAstro·5/20/2018, 6:07:58 PM·1 votes·538 views

Alright, I've been thinking about it for a week now, with all the mana changes and jungle changes, I am really happy with the mana changes, it made managing mana a bit more of a challenge, but the jungle changes seem to promote a "food chain" between junglers, and tbh it has always been there, but jungle was usually more about cross-lane interactions between the jungler, and let's say the mid laner. Currently, junglers are meant to fight for the scuttle early on, and this is what promoted a food chain between them, a ww is more able to duel early game than let's say Amumu. What can the Amumu do to punish the Warwick? Invade the jungle or try to outfarm the enemy, but then we have the Amumu busy farming while the Warwick is ganking top lane, this is a problem since we can see how little counterplay there is to early game duelysts as tank jungle like Mundo or Skarner. What will those excel at, then? Macro interactions with other junglers who are not early game duelyst or a fast farmer, this is the thing which keeps down the diversity in the jungle.

Let's take top lane, for example, we can see a clear circle of how champions interact: first, we have tanks, bruisers and juggernauts which are quite immobile but deal a lot of damage up close, who counters them? Ranged top laners like Teemo, Gnar, Urgot, Gangplank, Kennen, Vladimir and more, who counters THEM? Mobile divers like Rengar, Camille, Riven, Yasuo (if the enemy hasn't ragequitted before) or even Volibear.

    Kiters------->Tanks------------>Divers
       ^ -----------------------------------------/                             

What can we see in bot lane?

Marksmen | | | V Everyone else

Is that healthy for the game? I doubt so.

What can we see in mid lane?

Fast waveclearers | | | V Everyone else

What can we see in the jungle?

Early game duelysts | | | V Everyone else

But there is a question... What will the ideal jungle look like?

Farmers------------------------->Gankers | | | | Counterjunglers < -----------------------

Can we help Riot accomplish that?

YES

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