Community Verdict; Plants, garbage or a welcome addition ?
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hate plants, hate catching people out or someone makes a dumb play and just gets out of jail for free with blast cone
They are fine with me
Plant are stupid.
No one ever actually plans ahead about using them, they just randomly find one in the jungle and use it if they can. They aren't useful half the time, and when they are, they feel super unfair to the receiving end.
The Vision plant tho, that thing is overpowered as fuck and shoule be removed asap. As long as this exist, junglers with slower clear speed than the FOTM junglers can neverbecome viable.
Overall, if they are removed, the game will be much more strategic instead of clunky.
[{quoted}](name=The Deckowner,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=pgXX4vx7,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2016-12-12T01:19:29.489+0000)
No one ever actually plans ahead about using them, they just randomly find one in the jungle and use it if they can.
I agree.
It is tricky, I like all of the plants except the vision plant. It provides far too much power. The healing plants are wonderful for junglers who are squishy like Evelynn, and remain generally useful in the game. Blast cone when properly used is amazing.
You're missing the most important option: "Plants are meh."
Because, as others have said, you just randomly come across a plant and then either use it, or destroy it to deny it from the enemy.
They're not terrible, they don't ruin the jungle, but they don't really add anything either. They're just a thing that's there now.
[{quoted}](name=Nameless Voice,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=pgXX4vx7,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2016-12-12T01:55:28.745+0000)
You're missing the most important option: "Plants are meh."
Third option is open for people that are like you.
I hate the blast cone. It feels like a gimmick and there's really no strategy to it. You don't plan around using them ever.
And it's super fun when your teammate uses it to escape but sends you right into the middle of the enemy team. [slayer-jinx-unamused]
I don't mind the other two plants so much. The vision plant seems like its distance may need to be toned down a bit. Honeyfruit is totally fine.
Plants are pretty pointless. I think Riot just added them to add complexities to the jg. All in all, they don't really do much and when somebody avoid death because of them, it's not because you got outplayed, it's because Riot is losing ideas and this is their way of showing it.
I suggest to remove the Blast Cone.