First blood Turret Gold SUCKS for junglers
As the title says, turret first blood gold sucks.
I like the idea..but it is honestly to much of a gold lead given and here is why it sucks for solo que junglers.
Once in a while, but not often, you will get a laner who just absolutely sucks, than the enemy jungler will often times recognize that laner sucks.
I am not talking about the 0/2/1 feeder, no man im talking about that dude who picks hard to play champions like "azir mid" or "riven top" and goes "Don't worry man I carry.
Than next thing you know the guy dies level two solo one v one, and you as a jungler didn't even finish clearing your second camp yet. You shrug it off, than he walks back to lane and you are on your forth camp and here the dreaded voice say.
"an ally has been slain"
You sigh and back going "maybe I can just path properly and gank for him" So you back and he walks back into lane, than you walk to your camp before you start your rotation toward the feeding lane. But as you ping you are walking to the lane, and make your way. You hear it again
"an ally has been slain"
Its only 7 minutes in and this idiot has some how managed to feed 3 kills, PS the game doesnt even actually start untill like 1 minute and 30 seconds, so that means in a time frame of 5 minutes and 30 seconds, this doofus some how fed 3 kills. You even planned to save his lane and gank for him despite him being 0 2 0 with 25 farm, but as said earlier, he dies before you can even make it their. HE ISNT EVEN BEING GANKED, he's just feeding his butt off.
So now at this point it's around 9 minutes, the laner he or she is facing has about 80 farm, 3 kills, and literally just complete a item while having a 1 level or 2 level lead. Unless you pull off the perfect gank, you will not be able to kill this guy, and even if you do, do the perfect gank, you might end up in a two v two situation, and lose it, for your laner is beyond behind.
However all junglers know this story, so let me tell you what we did in past patches
So what does a jungler NORMALLY do in this scenario?
We will look at winning lanes, and make them win faster, and get a tower. Or we would look at tied lanes, and turn that tie into a victory. For quite honestly once a lane gets that far behind in the scenario I just mentioned, their is near nothing you can do unless you literally pull off the perfect gank, and the risks heavily out ways the pros. Than as stated even if you did do the perfect gank, you are still heavily at risk of a counter gank and losing the two v two.
However in the current patch, we have experienced it and even watched it in the lcs.
if you have a losing lane, you must do EVERYTHING you can to save that lane to prevent first blood turret gold. You have to save that lane, you have to beg the top laner or support to help you out. For you just simply can't afford to give the first turret gold. This than gives the enemy jungler a huge advantage for the jungler will now know your attention is forced to be in a defensive play style, which allows him to apply pressure to other lanes, or just invade your jungle and take everything.
So yeah if you are a jungler, first blood turret gold sucks, for you now if you have a god tier terrible laner on your team, you have to do EVERYTHING you can to baby sit him, to prevent the said gold to be given. It forces you to play a very linear and predictable jungle play style that the enemy jungler can easily abuse.
Of course you have plan B where if you have a winning lane, you can try your best to kill that lane, and than take the tower. But if thats the case you than turn it into a risky race hoping the enemy jungler doesn't do the exact same thing.
So yeah, those are my thoughts on why first turret gold sucks. If you have a super weak lane, you as the jungler are now forced to do everything you can to save it, and that's a pressure not really given to any other lanes in solo que.
