The jungle role is too volatile and is turning ranked into a shit show

Yenn·3/2/2020, 2:45:50 AM·1 votes·2,597 views

The losing team's jungle has been the primary reason for the loss in every single one of my ranked game so far, either directly or indirectly.

Once the jungle gets behind, it drags the entire team down with it. It becomes food for the enemy solo lanes and can't fulfill its' entire purpose of securing objectives. There's no option of 'play safe and try to catch up,' because having to concede camps is just as crippling as dying.

Any single bad thing that happens to the jungle immediately snowballs out of control. In most of my games, the jungle dies pre-level 6 or loses a buff, completely gives up, and starts spamming FF 15. And I don't blame them, because they can't even play the game. If the enemy team's jungle does something stupid, I can just permanently invade it for free gold, and ensure it never has a chance to catch up.

This might be okay if the jungle itself had to make a mistake, except both the solo lanes and the jungle itself are equally responsible for the jungle's success. I can't even play jungle to mitigate the chance of getting a losing jungle, because I'm still completely reliant on the solo lanes performing well and maintaining priority.

Additionally, this also completely fucks over mid lane, because you're now forced to play strong early game champions or assassins, in order to maintain priority for your jungle.

The current state of ranked is an atrocity; there was a similar issue in previous seasons, but you could at least mitigate it by playing jungle. Why aren't we seeing any changes to improve this?

7 Comments

PhearBunny3/2/2020, 10:47:59 AM2 votes

Boards are closing? I legit dont know what im going to do at work now lmao. WC3 Forums it is i guess.

Garson2113/2/2020, 7:23:27 AM2 votes

Don't waste your effort writing posts, the forum will be closed because riot has no money to maintain servers ...

But you are so right.

IVSakenz3/2/2020, 2:52:24 AM2 votes

they balance around pro/team play where you are in constant voice communication with the rest of your team and do not care that the same co-operation can not be achieved elsewhere.

PhearBunny3/2/2020, 11:41:22 AM2 votes

But on the real topic, youre right. Thats why people play Leesin and Elise so predominantly.

They are the ONLY junglers who arent dependent on laners having priority or setting up ganks, and they have the mobility+clear speed to not be significantly impacted by getting counter jungled or having to concede camps. Which is why, if you ask me, they are the only viable junglers in the game, and everyone else is just a B tier off-meta pick in comparison.

IAintDarius3/2/2020, 3:06:17 AM1 votes

Damn, I'm gonna miss Yenn post...

Vonyalo3/3/2020, 7:59:10 PM1 votes

as if this game has not been a shitshow for the past years

The thigh guy3/3/2020, 7:56:54 PM1 votes

Who would have guessed that gutting a role so far into the dirt that the main deciding factor of a win and loss is which side has the autofilled jungler would result in even more coin flips.

This is what all you laners (glaring specifically at top laners) wanted. You all cried “why does jungle never leave my lane? Why does jungle decide everything? Why is jungle the same level as us?” This is what YOU all wanted.