Junglers Sure Have It Rough [Slight Rant]

OatheSworn·7/23/2018, 8:44:57 AM·3 votes·2,432 views

I was in Blind Pick but everyone had already called their lanes and so I got stuck with jungle. No joke, every single freaking mistake was blamed on me. The "why weren't you there" or "why didn't you kill him" or 'why didn't you save me" or "why aren't you ganking" or "why are you so useless" seriously got on my fire-trucking nerves. Here is a little replay with Nasus:

  • I try to gank at level 3 because enemy Teemo already has him pushed up to tower. I was watching Teemo from the start and I know he's in deep with no wards, which means a free kill. I ping and run over but Nasus has fallen asleep at tower and is completely unresponsive. Only until after the gank fails, he tries to fight Teemo. I leave top for a while and after some time, Nasus starts spam pinging '?' on me. Apparently he died to Lee Sin gank and starts grilling me because I haven't been ganking. He has the nerves to say that after I've already tried helping him but he didn't move. He doesn't stop pinging so I run over to defend his turret just to shut him up. It's a bad idea because Lee Sin and Teemo were basically near-full health and I was a little over half but I know that if I didn't go, he'd flame. Obviously Lee jumps me and Teemo tries to follow up but I manage to get away with a little health. Nasus starts calling me 'useless' and tells me to 'leave'. I have less than 150 health and so I start backing when Lee Sin suddenly comes after me again. I get away after dodging 2 Qs (Nasus is still telling me to leave). I'm start backing again and Nasus has the bright idea to 1V2 Teemo and Lee Sin. Obviously he dies. Obviously he flames me. "Why didn't you help me" and "ok, just leave me to die" and "you are a shit jungler". HE JUST TOLD ME TO GET THE F*CK OUT. WHADYASWANTMEYTADO. Leave and stay at the same time!? Go in and die with you!? I'd die in a single Teemo/Lee auto. Heck no. You can die by yourself.

I don't play much Kayn (actually only played him a few times) so I'm not completely sure but if the enemy's team has:Teemo LeeSin Zed Ashe Zyra, is it not better to go Blue Kayn over Red? Lee Sin wasn't even building defense until near the end--just damage--and they didn't have a single tank. If they are all relatively squishy, I figure Blue is better over Red but clearly this Kai'Sa didn't think so. This is basically what happened:

  • She gets caught out by Lee Sin and Ashe, I speed over to try and help. I have only the slow on my W so the best I could do was try and kill Lee before he killed Kai. Lee was directly on top of Kai'Sa and Ashe was just basic attacking from the back and so I focused Lee (he was dealing more damage). I ult and kill him but it's too late and Kai'Sa dies. I'm low from my fight with Lee and Ashe kills me. Kai'Sa starts screaming on "why didn't you get out of Lee Sin sooner" and "why didn't you save me" and "fucking useless bronze" and "how did you not kill Ashe" and "why aren't you Red Kayn". Hold a fecking moment. She wants me to somehow have predicted her terrible positioning and pick Red Kayn just to cover/save her not-so-sorry-ass? After me rushing over to try and help, she has the guts to blame me for her own decision of trying to 1V2? Then she starts arrogantly reprimanding me on what I should have done and what my mistakes were? After her attempted 1V2? Did I mention her failed 1V2? Did I mention she tried to 1V2 without any items?

For all the jungle mains out there, I have the utmost fucking respect for you. If this is how jungling normally is, laners don't freaking deserve you. I don't care if you AFK farm all game, if you main jungle, that's an honor in my book.

3 Comments

MOLTinaTOR7/23/2018, 9:03:10 AM1 votes

Yeah this happens a lot to jungle players. Trolls immediately target the jungler for a mistake that the jungler is not responsible for. They die in lane, jungler wtf, they get caught by enemy jungler and top laner, jungler wtf. You take one CS, they threaten to murder your family LOL. I recommend muting all if it gets out of hand. Don't put up with their bullshit and focus on the game. And yes, blue kayn was definitely the pick there.