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The team can invalidate the jungler faster than EXP deficits.

AstroFerrari ·12/21/2019, 6:41:18 PM·14 votes·9,689 views

I want to say the exp nerfs have inhibited the ways that you can play as a jungler but the game quickly becomes impossible to play if 1 or 2 more of your lanes feed or can't maintain priority. You can't go for scuttle crabs cause the winning midlaner will just rotate and kill you. You can't sneak dragons because the fed bot lane will rotate and kill you while your laners stay in lane and farm. I know this has always been true to some extent but it's been heavily exacerbated by recent jungle changes.

If a lane feeds and becomes impossible to gank, especially mid lane or bot lane, parts of the map that matter most become restricted before you can really affect the game. And on top of all of this you will be 2 to 3 levels behind and getting pinged that you're alive because someone gave up 2 or more deaths before the 6 minute mark. Before you know it, the enemy team nearly has the dragon soul win condition captured all because one person feeding flipped the game upside down. It feels like jungling has absolutely no room for error now.

I was watching a TF Blade video of him carrying a top lane game yesterday. He smurfing in platinum but the enemy laner had given up 6 kills by the 8 minute mark. TF Blade is already level 9 and the enemy jungler is level 5, with a tier 2 tower already halfway dead. What the hell do you do as a jungler in this situation? What CAN you do?

22 Comments

Crescent Dusk12/21/2019, 11:16:55 PM11 votes

Jungle is the lowest lv lane in the game, think about that, and with an item and summoner handicap to boot.

It's little better than a second, worse support now.

CrazyMonkeyCZ12/21/2019, 6:47:43 PM5 votes

Oh, poor jnglers can’t be onpar xpwise with laners and at the same time have the biggest influence over the game :((((((

Who would have thought that in team game, you might be dependant on others :)

Guess what, when I’m toplaner, does bad bot/mid/jngle influence me? Of course, get use to it.

XJ9999999999999912/22/2019, 1:26:07 AM5 votes

someone is smurfing in an elo they dont belong in, resulting in poor game experience and unintended things happening.

hmm, almost as if smurfing is the problem and not the game. game is fine if the game is an equal 48-52% range for both teams.

when you put a smurf, its a wild card, and can result in 1 sided games where people have no chance and it makes the game look broken.

still waiting for the day riot stops caring about money and instead cares about the game experience and bans smurfs, just like fortnite and dota 2 have done. LoL, despite being more popular than Dota 2 and pretty even with fortnite, is the game that is yet to do this. very surprising.

General Esdeath 12/22/2019, 1:57:57 AM4 votes

I have this fun strat of taking the enemy buff (whichever one they don't start), telling my laner to ward my version, and watch the map, because if they come for it we collapse on them, and sometimes I "accidentally" show myself so they know, then we take a free kill and my bot/mid has the enemy buff and first blood.

The amount of people who are playing with their monitors turned off is astounding.

Dewott61012/22/2019, 2:33:39 AM4 votes

It's making me just wanna play jg less and less. Early invade enemy team that CC locks and kills me, well can't do shit for the rest of the game, fun

UF Dan12/22/2019, 1:45:14 AM2 votes

Imagine a jg complaining that other lanes are having to much impact on his jg XD what a fucking meme. No I'm sorry your role does not get to decide 90% of games for another year, now laners can lower it down all the way to 80% lol.