Female Junglers?

The Wet Baguette·2/16/2015, 11:14:46 PM·4 votes·2,427 views

This makes little productive sense.

So Junglers. I'm looking at them, picking out ones I like, and I notice a lower amount of females compared to males.

In terms of orthodox female Junglers off the top of my head, I can think of, Vi, Evelynn, Elise, Nidalee, Sejuani, Rek'Sai.

Now that is just off the top of my head. But when I do this for males, Jarvan, Fiddlesticks, Wukong, Amumu, Skarner, Sion, Hecarim, Pantheon, Warwick, Udyr, Yi, Shaco, Rammus, Maokai, Lee Sin, Kha'Zix.

That's off the top of my head.

Not that I'm complaining. I just find it odd. Thoughts?

Edit: Judging by the first two responses, no one understood my point.

It doesn't matter. It really doesnt. But I find it odd because of the balance between male and female in game. It's pretty much even. I'm just wondering why all of the males are Junglers while none of the females are, while every other position is even.

4 Comments

Pretty Dhizi2/16/2015, 11:16:25 PM2 votes

..Does gender really, even matter? It's a game. It's not really anything 'odd', it's just more often male figures are reflected in games more commonly, rather than female. There's quite a good balance of male-to-female in LoL, but I don't really think anyone could register it as 'odd'.

Edit 1.# - Since you updated your post, it's a bit clearer now. there's no real defining 'reason' as to why they're junglers, it's just happenstance for their kit, and that they're male. There's actually some other junglers that're female, but unorthodox..Cassiopeia can actually jungle sometimes (if played by a well-accustomed cassio player, i've seen it done at higher levels, it's..effective, due to spellvamp runes and E spam, but ganking is a bit weak unless you land a perfect ult.), Jinx has been done, i've seen Leona, Quinn, Riven Jungle used to be a big thing, too. Does that help make the list closer?

Past that, I don't really think it's very odd. The balance is good in other roles, jungle does need to expand a bit. It's possibly most likely due to females having more suit for something less-revolved around the idea of the jungle? Most often you'll imagine females suiting a more mage-esque, kitey or support-esque role. Sure, there's big challenges to that (Vi, Evelynn), but I think it's just a matter of champion-pools not being as flexible as others.

Linna Excel2/16/2015, 11:34:17 PM2 votes

Females are best represented in support and mid IIRC, the other lanes not so much.

By the way fiora, riven, akali, irelia, shyvana, and poppy can all jungle just fine.

Gunpoint2/16/2015, 11:15:25 PM1 votes

Why does it matter?