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In Defense of the New Jungle and the Pricing

PublicArtillery·1/29/2015, 7:57:45 PM·1 votes·1,070 views

I know I'm just a Silver (b2 now because resets ;-;) but hear me out. I jungled a bit in seasons 3 & 4, but never mained it. However, when season 5 jg came out and I was all like "OOOOOOOOO Diversity!" I was amazed by the ability to smite champs, stun monsters, and deal tons of damage if you played your cards right! However, the one thing that threw me for a loop was the increased damage by the neutral monsters. I'll admit I died to the raptors my first game because I thought they where gonna be an easy kill. While this was a bane, I see that the s5 jungle is going to need different champions then the s4 jg to be successful. I personally see the need for a jg with good sustain (maybe it's just my ello) I even gave old Olaf another shot in the jg (with good sustain and early duel potential I mean why not!)

Ultimately we need to understand that League will evolve and it's the jg's turn. We as a community need to embrace the change and use it to our advantage. Pick someone besides who you use to get lvl 2 gank kills with (cough lee sin cough cough) and give them a try. IMO the Jg had been the same since I joined in Season 3 (and I bet it was the same beck in season 1 too) and I like where Riot is going with this.

Now on to the new Jg item, everyone is getting concerned that it costs an extra 100 gold to buy the primary upgrade. But if you think about it, this is where the JG gets a hefty power spike. It in essence is adding a new summoners spell that can be offensive or defensive, this can create a bit of a problem with the early game power houses like Vi. This price increase is a needed ghost nerf for the stronger early game jg. If the price increase is a concern for others who don't think they can afford it 1st back, 100 gold isn't going to break the bank. When I would jg before 4.2 I could manage two runs of the jg and a few ganks before basing and have enough for boots, the smite upgrade, and a few other situational, and now I can still afford all these items I just need to hit up one or two more camps before I base.

What can you take out of this? I believe that the new jg is on point with leagues ideals, being that it is an easy game to learn but hard to master! If you don't want to take the time to master it, try out a new lane. And to those of you who are laners, jg is a bunch of fun now so give it another try!

Tl,DR, Jg has changed, and it's for the better! It's gonna require more practice to get better at it, but it now has a higher pay off. And everyone (jg mains or not) should give this new role a try because it is so much more fun then it use to be!

5 Comments

Drukyul1/29/2015, 8:26:00 PM2 votes

This was a terrible defense that didn't address any of the concerns with the new jungle.

Cenobite Azaziel1/29/2015, 9:34:33 PM1 votes

Some champions got hit really hard with the new jungle. "OHHHH 100 gold is nothing". It is. Some champions can hardly do krugg, red, toad and blue. A better leash is now a must have so they can B early. Top laner, mid laner, adc, they don''t have to shove gold just to be at their roles. Why is it fair that the early jungle is so damn hard that the jungler, with a summoner that is designed for it and a item can't barely clear it all and later, lvl 11 our 12 ANYONE can clear the jungle withou breaking a sweat. Hell, ADCs can clear the dragon faster than you, the guy that shoved 700 gold in a item JUST for farming. ( rangers and poacher? just for farming) .

Except for fiddle, every jungler has to rush a damn jungle item. Wouldn't it be great if we already had the passive of machete buy picking up smite? In season 4 you could just rush a spirit stone adn if you were snowballing you could stop it . No need for Sotel, Sotag.

Riot is always knee caping junglers so the preciouses laners (with wards) won't get caught for them while overextending. Today, as it is, is way harder to carry a game being a jungler than being a laner.

You can snowball the lane AND farm the creep wave. The jungle? Dude you have to choose between ganking and farming. You can't do both.

That's how much riot likes the jungle. "Please, come play with us after lvl 3. After the lane phase you income will be torned apart by laners and they will roam better than you. Oh and you are underleved by 2 levels because bot lane would cry if you had the same exp as solo laners."

A skill tree that would get stronger if we had a machete or and upgraded item would be so nice. 2 dmg and 1% dmg on hit for the whole game. Could we get something to scale with?

I miss s3~4 when we had a power spike doing blue and red.