Is it time to make new areas into brush (top/bot lane) to allow another place to gank from?

LeBraum James GG·8/11/2015, 2:51:43 AM·1 votes·450 views

I was just thinking, it would be even more optimal for jungle pressure if there was a little bit of brush inbetween top turret and river, as well as bot, where the jungler could have an easier avenue to gank.

I think this could have people play more cautiously, have more avenues to change a lane when it is just snowballing out of control, and allow for more junglers than just the gap closers and hard CC jungles.

3 Comments

Trebbi8/11/2015, 3:01:18 AM1 votes

Riot purposly made all the brushes smaller at some point, if you make them larger you will have problems with curvature of the terrain wich makes certain ward placement so that if you put pink on one side you will not see that 1 ward in the brush even tough you have vision of 99% of that brush.

67chrome8/11/2015, 4:09:56 AM1 votes

I think this could have people play more cautiously,

Another way of saying that is making the game is more boring. With the farm war early being fairly dull as-is I'm not sure that would be a good thing.

Brush was reduced at one point, and most junglers capable of bypassing ward-defense to surprise gank with no warning have been nerffed pretty heavily so they either flat out can't do that anymore, or have a huge cost in their kit associated with that power and essentially must pull off successful ganks to be a worthwhile pick.

And surprise ganks being heavily nerffed also makes sense in regards to counter-play. The general concept of counter-play is every move an opponent makes can be dealt with by multiple strategies, and strategies that aren't simply "avoid him entirely" or "stop playing the game", because and interesting game is one people play. As-is, the brush generally sets up ganks so you can see a jungler coming 2 seconds before he's on top of you, which gives some time for clutch plays and a solid reaction without just being deleted with no warning. Being deleted with no warning has, essentially, no counter-play as the only legitimate stratagies against it are essentially to stop playing the game.

Anyways - I don't see more brush for the jungler to sneak through as adding anything to the game.

Cheeseyoger8/11/2015, 4:32:56 AM1 votes

Where exactly do you mean, LeBraum? There is a bush in the top left of river and bottom right. I'm sure you mean something else, but I don't understand enough to visualize it.