Buffing Neeko for Jungle? Season 10

SmiteVM·2/25/2020, 8:23:12 PM·1 votes·2,175 views

Personally, I believe that Neeko has an incredible jungling kit. With her good ranged root (along with its ability to go through minions) and blooming Q; she has an well balanced kit to make waves in lanes. She would have great setup for ganks with her W and E, her damage to Darkes would be efficient, and her clears would be a little slower with cooldowns which I believe is a good trade for her gank ability. Does she sacrifice farm to roam? Are her lanes even gankable forcing her to farm? I think its a good trade off. With her only role being mid lane (with a rare support) i feel Neeko needs a little buff to make her a jungler. Her kit speaks for itself.

5 Comments

Najjaa2/25/2020, 8:55:50 PM1 votes

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Trist mid opop2/26/2020, 12:50:49 AM1 votes

I play neeko jungle from time to time and my favorite gank goes as follow. I transform into our midlane (lux for example) and starts farming mid, the real lux then comes from the side. The enemy will get us mixed us and give us a free kill

Kazekiba2/26/2020, 2:17:19 AM1 votes

Think I saw her on the list for jungle specific buffs

Caretaker Jack2/27/2020, 2:01:48 AM1 votes

This makes more sense than all the options mentioned so far

2G TRUCBIZZARD2/27/2020, 4:05:58 PM1 votes

Actually, Neeko was first created to be a jungler, but she was played everywhere but jungle since she was stronger elsewhere. But that is why her Q explodes on monsters, or why her W gives her movespeed (to kite camps, like Kindred's W).

Atm she's just stronger on lanes (midlane CC mage, toplane attackspeed offtank, or even support with a very long CC that you can cast from behind creeps). Buffing her jungling wouldn't make her more interesting than lanes, since she would need more items to do what she already does when played i lanes.

Nevertheless, I love the idea of getting Neeko jungle, it's just that she's too weak compared to other junglers and that she benefits from laning.