has jungle been getting less diverese every season?

rubberduckie666·4/29/2017, 6:06:34 PM·1 votes·317 views

maybe its jst me but it seems that the list of viable junglers has been getting smaller and smaller to the point that you can actually predict the two junglers you're going to have in a game.

call me crazy but i feel that the culprits here are the strengthing of the jungle itself, removal of smite rewards and removal of blasting smite.

for those who dint know, blasting smite was an aoe smite that damaged thw whole camp while giving back health and mana. it gave champions that would otherwise struggled to clear their camps a way to clear them. however it was removed because it made junglers who already had a fast clear an ungodly fast clear (to my understanding) as a result the jungle roster was cut down pretty fast.

then the jungle was made even stronger by removing smite rewards. smite rewards for those who dont know or remeber gave the jungler a buff from smiteing a camp, gromp gave a mini poison thornmail, wolf gave a ghost that told your team when someone invaded your jungle then gave vision of them, blue gave you some %mana back raptors gave you a oracal lense that went away when you found a ward, red gave you %health back krugs gave you a stun that worked every (10 i think) hits

these various rewards give specific types of junglers ways to effeciently clear and defensive/offensive options if they so choose to use it. removing them hurt all junglers clears and made the jungle roster just a bit smaller,

then jungle got buffed and changed around, shrinking the roster even more while also making some camps outright not worth doing due to their damage or clear times.

perhaps its best we simple revert the jungle back to season 5 and start balacing junglers from there

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