Jungle Problems?
Just got onto boards to see what people are complaining about for the new season and i see alot of people talking shit about jngl. Whats wrong? I hear its a problem with xp. Can someone fill me in?
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The Jungle is currently balanced so that you'll only hit Level 6 by about your 3rd+ rotation (assuming Scuttle Crabs, a good gank, something to just tip you over the edge).
Problem is, Top Lane and Mid Lane if they just stay in lane farming will be Level 6 by the Jungler's 2nd rotation, and level 8 by the Jungler's 3rd.
If you can't take advantage of your first rotation properly, Top Lane and Mid Lane are gonna start taking advantage of you. In higher ELOs, against coordinated teams, or if someone on the enemy team simply doesn't like you as the Jungler, you can end up effectively locked off from the top side of the map.
In effect, Junglers being behind in levels of the solo laners ends up crippling their agency, and nobody likes having their agency being taken away in a game.
The role is absolutely horrible to play because of the EXP changes, you have to play a jungler that just ganks nonstop or you are useless. If you fall behind you are useless the entire game, this pigeonholing into a specific champion pool of early gank champions and being behind in level makes a LOT of people not want to play, so you have a gank centric meta with barely anyone actually maining the role, so the games are coinflip entirely, at the lobby, the bronze meme of pulling the lever and your wins being RNG has actually become a thing
so jungle is now the most important role and the shittiest role to play.. AND THIS IS THE RESULT OF RIOT TRYING TO MAKE JUNGLE LESS IMPACTFUL, literally the exact opposite of what they set out to do, they are so underqualified and SO OUT OF TOUCH with the actual balancing of this game it's sickening.
an average game in gold has one jungler being 10+ kills and under 4 deaths and the other jungler being 0 kills and 5 or more deaths. this has been the case in every game i've played whether i've won or lost on my other account so far. wont even play ranked on this one until they fix jg