Which jungle meta is better?

NY64·Jul 13, 2019·4 votes·5,363 views

So currently I see a lot of people complaining about the jungle which makes sense since they screwed it up. But I remember back in S7 people were complaining about the jungle because invading was pointless due to catch-up xp. So my question is which jungle meta is better?

Would you rather have the current jungle meta where one invade against you removes you from the game?

Would you rather have the jungle meta where invading jungle was pointless because the enemy jungler would always catch up with catch-up xp?

10 Comments

MarshbouyJul 14, 20195 votes

the one where it's duo top, duo bot, and mid

ThefrostyvikingJul 13, 20193 votes

Answer is simply that jungle has never really been in a state in which everyone was happy, its probably hopeless to ask for such a thing to happen as well,.....because different people often end up wanting different things.

Some want to be able to blitz their opponents out early and keep things that way, others want the junglers to basically not fight eachother and just gank and there are even more others wanting other stuff.

Dont bother and just go about your day freed from these small concerns knowing that there will always be people asking for or complaining about one thing or another x)

The thigh guyJul 14, 20192 votes

The one where jungle is even remotely playable and duo top isn’t a strictly better strat.

heroikcJul 14, 20191 votes

Gahg, what an awful scenario; neither truly feels satisfying but each has valued traits when playing jungle, shutdown early or recover quickly... Shows how bad League has become.

BeersteinJul 14, 20191 votes

I feel the main complaint is jg vs Langer power, not jg vs jg power.

RekSai CoffeeCoJul 14, 20191 votes

The meta where jungler isn't 2 levels below solo laners and scuttle crab wasn't a "Mini-objective".

Sky CardisJul 14, 20191 votes

There use to be a Jungler Triangle.

A rock paper scissors sort of thing.

I can't remember the terms but there was like 3 base type of Junglar Classes Scaler Invader Counter invade

Invader starved the Scaler Counter Invader overpowered Invaders Scalers out-scaled the Counter Invaders

I think..(correct me if I am wrong) an example was: Yorick Scaler Elise Invader Shyvana Counter Invade (Very unsure if this is a right example of a Counter Invade Jungler)

But they did something and destroyed that triangle. They either removed the power of Counter Invader type or they gutted Invaders type (can't remember which)

Commander WhiteJul 14, 20191 votes

Season 5. Where you could play many different types of champions and always have a great time. Jungle was decided by YOUR own performance and also wasn't literally impossible to play from behind.

Darkdemon653Jul 14, 20191 votes

In terms of counterjungling, I think we're in a good spot. My main issue with the jungle is I don't think constant ganking is punished enough by lack of gold/experience.

KazamaruJul 14, 20191 votes

So, as a jungler, what you want...is choices. You want these things to all be good.

Clearing your jungle
Counter-jungling
Successful ganks
Neutral Objectives
Taking turrets.

Currently, #1 is the only one really lacking...but that is the one that is felt the most.(By amount of time involved in said activity) Currently, unsuccessful ganks are often better than clearing your jungle which is the real problem. Because that means that if my laners feed the enemy jungler, my choices become very limited because he has both snowballed the lane as well as developed gold/exp difference over me putting me behind in both respects. Now if that were it, we'd actually be okay. But with turret plates and the accessibility granted by lane advantage things can snowball out of control very quickly.