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Wow the new jungle is terrible

Skystrike·11/21/2014, 12:55:21 AM·5 votes·898 views

Like wow last season I was able to carry myself to D1 with jungle, but this season I'll be lucky to even get gold with this sad excuse for a jungle. Literally there is no way around it, the new jungle is a straight up nerf for 90% of the current junglers. 2 potions is a complete joke, I should not have to back after getting level the 3 that's ridiculous, that's the opportune time to gank in soloq.

And don't get me started on these "new items". They're all just crappier iterations of the spirit items and just replace the great sustain you got with them to restoring 10 health and 7 mana? LOL. The extra smite options are just clutter and unneeded depth that the game did just fine without. And now you get extra stuff from smiting camps? What monkey came up with these ideas. All this does is add some completely unnecessary complexity that clutter the game and distract me from gank opportunities or force me not smite something that would otherwise be efficient to smite because I don't get the right bonus.

Who in their right mind would ever want to learn to jungle now, you get beat to hell, you have to remember a bunch of trivial crap, and you have to choose between 4 different shitty smite options. If I was a new player I'd say fuck that and just learn a lane, which might I add are untouched this season while only junglers are nerfed. There is a reason why people play league over other MOBAS and is one of its main selling points. League is simple, it's uncluttered with trivial information that you must know before playing and has a simple goal. Now just because the overall game is simple doesn't mean it doesn't have depth. League definitely has depth and that's what separates the good players from the bad, the skill and mastery of the game not the burden of information.

It saddens me that I'll probably have to abandon my favorite role because at this point jungle is hopeless to carry with consistently. Especially in high elo where people will just walk over to your buff and kill you. Personally I'll probably just switch to top and mid and I suggest any other jungle mains do the same if you want to gain elo this season unless something is changed.

5 Comments

2pudge1cup11/21/2014, 1:32:10 AM3 votes

Riot doesn't want junglers ganking early which is why there's this 2 potion idiotic thing.

I don't understand their rationale, either, since ganking is what makes playing jungler actually fun.

And you definitely have a point about the unnecessary crap. The crab thing running around in the river that gives vision for a bit, the shield from tier 2 towers, smite options, what's the point?

The Whamboozler11/21/2014, 2:50:07 AM3 votes

While your post seems to just be a lot of "It's new, it's hard, I hate it!", you made one or two fair points. So new jungle kicks the CRAP out of a lot of old junglers. Junglers who can really ONLY jungle. They're weak in lane and have noplace else to go. That's bad. To make it worse, the smite-granted buffs seem to be something they're pushing. So now if you're a weak jungler, you have to not only struggle to clear, but you have to hold your smite for a camp with the buff you need to gank? This seems excessively harsh on the champs already weakened by the tougher jungle. So the champs who can still clear well (AKA: the ones with strong sustain) get a further perk in that they can get the proper smite-buff for ganking/pushing/whatever, but the weak picks pretty much HAVE to toss smite at the camps whenever they can, as they risk execution if they don't. Harsh.

Lunie11/21/2014, 1:20:34 AM2 votes

I like how you put it. League is a simple game. The new jungle feels like they tried to do too much without thinking about how the players would feel.

Turarthdur11/21/2014, 1:25:46 AM1 votes

Yep.... Soooo happy I swapped to maining ad towards the end of s4, and before this jungle came out.

Live2LetDie11/21/2014, 1:42:24 AM1 votes

I agree this jungle is not ment for early ganking junglers. Tried Elise and rammus yesterday and got raped by the camps. For me sustain is the only choice. Fiddlesticks was a perfect choice becuase you won't lose health and you can solo drag with level 3 drain and blue. Warwick is another God choice becuase of sustain but unless your counter jung, like shack who can rape other non sustain jungs, your going to have problems.