Why the new jungle is not good

DulyAppointed·12/8/2014, 4:20:29 AM·1 votes·562 views

My other post was basically a rant, but I will dedicate my entire post to one thing so nobody can nitpick.

There are too many monsters to kill:

Imagine yourself for a moment, playing solo que, and your jungler is not responding to the lanes. Obviously, this doesn't happen in diamond (save your fingers if you were about counter with that). But as a primarily unranked player, I see it all the time, and now my gold and even platinum buddies are seeing this more often too. So why is that?

Individually, its actually more viable to farm or rush to 6 for your own gold and statistics than it is to assist lanes. Thus, it puts pressure on a solo player to sit in the jungle longer. People who claim that they are having difficulty farming the jungle are certainly doing something wrong in their farm order.

So what do you think the consequences are for your lanes? People who have additional jungler support snowball to holy hell against the team with absolutely none. Because there is such a large amount of monsters to kill, there is a large uncertainty in creating a balance between your team and your own statistics.

Before you go on to state that this is not true because of what YOU experience, take a moment to realize that there are multiple ranks and levels of skill in the match making system, and they all equally deserve good gameplay.

3 Comments

AtheosisX12/8/2014, 4:42:15 AM2 votes

Riot's intention was to shift jungling away from being nothing more than being a gank-bot. They wanted to make farming for mid to late game power viable. They also wanted to make counter-jungling more on par in power to ganking. Whether or not they succeeded is hard to say, but truthfully I get tired of people complaining about not getting ganks. I've had people complain and bitch at me for not ganking their lane while I'm helping to snowball another lane more times than I can count (I particularly love when top gets bitchy because I'm not rushing up to try to gank Garen constantly). Basically there's a lot of laners who are entitled jerks who expect their jungler to serve their needs. When I lane I don't expect ganks or have the attitude that I am entitled to them. When they happen I appreciate it and praise my jungler, but really, people need to start learning how to win or at least hold their lane without help, because at every level there will be games where your jungler ignores your lane for whatever reason.

Epilogue of Life12/8/2014, 4:48:21 AM1 votes

Before you go on to state that this is not true because of what YOU experience, take a moment to realize that there are multiple ranks and levels of skill in the match making system, and they all equally deserve good gameplay.

No, unskilled people don't even deserve to play the game.