Nerf junglers early, buff their late, plz.

Tundra Hunter·4/29/2018, 4:07:55 AM·1 votes·615 views

Both in LCS and solo queue, it would be good to have junglers less impactfull early and more impactfull late game.

Currently, when you watch a LCS game, junglers are hard carry early as they create small leads which can be snowballed by pro teams. But late game, they are less impactfull than supports. They are way behind in level and gold, and their kit usually isn't build to protect carries and thus be impactfull despite being behind in level and gold. They carry early... then they are useless and are just there to smite baron or drake. It's so lame.

The current balance change enhance this even more. Let's look at Warwick. He is strong early and strong 1v1. He is going to be impactfull in solo queue, able to stay healthy, secure scuttler with his early 1v1, and ganks effectively. Then, late game, he is going to be even weaker than now with the nerf to his max rank q on the PBE. Your balance focused on keeping him OP early, and make his weak late even weaker.

You said yourself that you want all roles to be able to carry. To be relevant late game. Well, for junglers, to do so, make it so that farming the jungle mid late give as much exp and gold as laners. And for junglers, make their kit scale at least decent into late game, nerf their early if necessary... that's what you should have done on Warwick.

With the jungle and Warwick change, he is going to be strong for the meta but so lame to play. For the first time since season 4, I am changing my main (I switched to Trundle, who is relevant late).

The jungle change will hammer that toxic jungle even more. The meta is going to be strong early 1v1 gank health junglers who fall off mid and late game. Playing jungle will feel so bad... we're going to be crucial the first 10 minutes of the game, and then completely useless for the next 20 minutes or so, apart from warding and smiting. =(

2 Comments

Gear Jammer4/29/2018, 4:28:42 AM1 votes

There are plenty of junglers that have weak early games and strong late games.... That doesnt make them meta. Problem isnt the champs persay... its the snowball nature of the game.