Jungle and Penetration

NA1·1/28/2015, 1:50:37 AM·2 votes·1,261 views

Is there a reason we don't balance the jungle so that penetration actually does something? It's kinda frustrating that I want to take MPen on some of my junglers, only to find that it does absolutely nothing to increase damage against jungle monsters.

Can we rebalance jungle monsters' stats so they have the same Effective Health but all have 100 armor/MR. Or simply allow penetration to push jungle monsters down below 0. I see people running AtkSpd reds on some junglers that should NEVER run those runes, just to make them work in the jungle.

2 Comments

NA11/28/2015, 12:30:27 PM1 votes

No?

coppinslinger1/28/2015, 12:37:08 PM1 votes

This is a change I don't really mind, but I have no idea how it would affect balance.

I'm sure riot has their reasons, because I don't suddenly want ArPen/Mpen to be the best stat to clear the jungle.

But honestly, it makes sense that AS currently is the best stat to clear the jungle. Certain champions have a hard time-clearing the jungle early on and if they have to take AS to remedy that, I don't see the problem. Champions like that usually don't scale too well with damage or have high-damage early and are focused on earning $$ for their items to scale into the mid-game.

I like the current jungle set-up, but think this change could work. Also, Hyprid-pen marks gives you the best of both worlds when combo'd with AS Quints/Blues.