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Would league be more fun without junglers?

8bj2yMEanN·2/16/2015, 6:13:17 PM·1 votes·828 views

I think league would be a hell of a lot more fun if junglers did not exist. So often, it seems, my opponent (I play top) plays excessively aggressive and could easily be killed if my jungler ganked, and I tell my junglers this, but they often just keep farming. And then there are times where I play very passively but still get tower doved by the other team's top and jungler. How the fuck do you play around junglers, if your opponent clears your wards/trinket on cooldown? So many times my opponent goes in on me and I start fighting them, realizing that I would win a 1v1, and then their jungler shows up and kills me. Am I just supposed to always back off from 1v1s unless I know that their jungler is not nearby? And, even if I do have the river bush and tribush warded, they could just come through the three bushes at the top, and do one of those ganks-that-you-can't-do-shit-about. With laners coming, it's like, if you see that they're not in their lane, you should expect them to be near top, but with junglers, unless you have vision of them you have no fucking idea where they might be. The idea of there being someone on the other team who might be anywhere at any given time is pretty fucking antifun if you ask me. And when I have a jungler that does gank or camp my lane, I don't feel like I deserved the kills they get me. Does anyone else feel like a league without junglers would be much more fun?

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Lakega2/16/2015, 7:08:01 PM1 votes

Sounds like you just don't like the challenge of the unknown. Kinda with the mentality that "well I WOULD have won if HE didn't show up, I shouldn't be punished because of that!" Mentality which is.. unfortunately the mentality society has these days.. "How dare they do something to ME of all people"

Junglers are there to mix things up and keep it challenging. Just because you have some bad junglers doesn't mean the jungler role is terrible, as you point it out yourself that on the opposite side they helped immensely into baiting you into a fight.

Here's a tip:

I believe you're missing the point of laning phase in terms of your enemy. The point of laning phase Is as you know, to do better than your opponent.. But what does that mean exactly? Does it mean getting more cs? maybe even a kill or two? Of course, but that's not all it means.. It also means trading shots effectively, and out smarting, out playing your opponent.. Ok, so you already knew that right?

But what you probably didn't know, is that out playing your opponent isn't always face rolling the keyboard better than them. It also means being able to bait them into thinking you're alone when you're not, and being able to give them a false sense of security. Which can be done multiple ways in the same situation...

TLDR: You got out played and you didn't like it.

The fun with junglers is trying to second guess your opponent in your lane and out play them. That's what laning is after all you know?