Teambuilder Ranked and Problems in Normals

Best Foxx NA·3/25/2016, 9:20:13 AM·1 votes·352 views

Has anyone noticed that the Teambuilder Queue in both Normals and Ranked has ended in problems for all? Lately I've been getting a lot of teams that have a very incompetent Jungler trying to play something meta (like Graves Jungle) with almost no map awareness. On top of this, these junglers are less likely to gank losing lanes. Does it not seem a bit counterintuitive to have a role that is meant to assist other lanes but won't because it's losing. They seem to have no thoughts like "Hey, this lane is losing, let's see if I can turn that around." They instead think "Nope, they've lost it, I'm not going to help them, even though they could use it." I understand if there's warding involved or if they position safely when their combo is on cooldown, that happens. BUT when I as a player know that with their help and my opponent's poor positioning that my opponent could die to a gank and I can take my lane back, and the jungler decides to not help, I feel helpless, since the opponent is being rewarded by our jungler and his own for his aggression and my inability to do much about it. It sucks. Has this happened to anyone else, and how do you all deal with it?

8 Comments

Kei1433/25/2016, 12:00:54 PM2 votes

winning lane isn't the jungler's job. its the laners job to win lane.

Jungler's role is typically to exert map pressure, and that is easier done presurring even or winning lanes.

if a lane is 3/0/0 already, then the jungler risk dying themselves and loosing map pressure elsewhere.

bolivian heat3/25/2016, 12:01:51 PM2 votes

Well depends on the situation. As a jg main I can tell you right now that ganking a losing lane can go very badly depending on the enemy champion and exactly who your teammate is and what champ your jungling with. For example , if the enemy fiora is shitting on her lane , then she can easily 2v1 and win or at least escape the gank with her life, making it a complete waste of time for the jungler and setting him back far behind the enemy jungled in gold and CD and also revealing himself on the map so the enemy team can base their actions off it such as diving bot lane or invading the jungle. However if it is not an op champ like fiora, and your jungles has reliable CC and damage and experience, then ganking a losing could work, however the risk of failure will always be there. What rank are you, cus you could just be getting inexperienced junglers depending on you MMR