Are you better laning or Jungle or Support?

Weenîe Hut·1/2/2015, 12:31:25 AM·1 votes·356 views

Just a hypothesis and I want to theory craft a discussion: It's really hard to gauge how good you are as a Jungle or as a "Marksman's Aid" (Insert Cringe here) because within this game, there are invisible contributions to these two roles. Generally, as a mid or top, there are stats indications to show your contribution to your teammates such as KDA, CS, damage dealt, damage taken, etc. Whereas as a Support, you have Wards placed, wards destroyed, vision wards bought versus sight wards bought. However, as a support, there is still the invisible stats of ward's efficiency. Placing 17 wards that shows nothing doesn't contribute to 8 wards that can spot out an entire team's rotation. As a Jungle, this goes even more in depth. Are you warding right? How many of your kills are from gank versus how efficient are your ganks? I strongly believe that a Jungle's sole job is neutral objectives (Dragon, Baron, and neutral Buffs). But as a Jungle you're also in charge of map presence, identifying the location of enemy's jungler, assist lanes, snowball lanes, smite presence for neutral objectives, and possibly even prepping for a tower siege depending on which Jungle you play. A Jungle is charged with a lot of tasks and the difference in skills of a Jungler is how efficient you carry out these tasks (at least that's what I think). All of these are stats that are important to a Jungle and they can't be found without spectating an actual game. Not to mention as a Jungler, you're not exempt from statistics performance. The pressure as a Jungler and support are undoubtedly high. If you are a player who can efficiently play the role of a Support, your efforts are usually unnoticed. As a Jungler, it is a lot more noticeable, but only to the players who are currently in that game. So if you think to yourself, "I always perform better when I'm a Solo laner" or "I'm not a good Jungler". Perhaps it might be because currently I feel that Jungler has fallen into a role called "laner's aids" (insert more cringe here). So though your stats aren't exceptional, you might be a different form of player. Your stats might be the invisible contributions that Match History can't show.

TL;DR You might actually be good at Jungle and Support even though your match history isn't impressive.

Do give me your thoughts!

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