season 5 jungle new player onboarding

Vellich0r·10/31/2014, 6:53:52 PM·1 votes·837 views

I recently played as a level 5 player (completely non toxic, mostly trying to help new players out and foster a more positive team environment) and attempted to jungle with my tiny level 5 masteries. Being a relatively experienced player i assumed with smite and the right start plus a leash I would be able to get stuff done, but boy was I wrong. I played as Kha' Zix, started the right spells, got a decent leash, but I had to flash away from my blue buff, without at least 2 pots running plus smite even the wolves were too brutal and i got executed by the big wolf, and until level 4 i couldnt even look at my red and blue buffs. Now, that's bad enough, but imagine playing in the season 5 jungle. No one would ever want to jungle, its already too brutal for most champions when the summoner is level 30 (lookin at you Sej bear) but imagine little old level 5 decides, "i wanna try that jungle thing". He/she is gonna get shrekt! the creeps will execute him for the first 30 minutes of the game, and then when he finally gets out of the jungle at level 6, 31 minutes into the game, they will feel totally useless and think, "why would I ever do this?" that path of thought will make getting a jungler, especially in team builder, thin pickings, and as much as most really don't wanna be ADC or support, they are REALLY, REALLY not going to want jungle for a good while. So i ask my fellow summoners (and rioters if yall wanna chime in) how do we make the new player experience less brutal in the jungle?

2 Comments

Gutsin10/31/2014, 7:07:56 PM2 votes

From my experience, starting in the jungle that low of a level is a challenge for most people since mastery points are low and I hope you haven't bought any runes. Simply stick with the more tankier junglers or "safe" junglers. If you want to jungle at a low level I suggest using someone like Warwick Nunu Fiddlesticks MasterYi or Udyr . People with lifesteal with help you a lot. For Udyr, usually instead of the shield which grants lifesteal, I take his Tiger Stance for the added damage along with Phoenix Stance. Yi is just a power house who shouldn't have much trouble at all after item 3106