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New jungle champ

tunehunter·10/1/2015, 3:05:24 AM·1 votes·678 views

I am trying to learn this game little by little, so far jungle has been one of my favorite places to play. When I am lagging it can be ok since precise timing isnt as important except when I am ganking. I create a lot of pressure on the map and I dont feel tied down any where, my only goal can be on pushing objectives and watching for oportunities to help out team mates doing well snow ball them and the like. Some times it works, some times it doesnt. My favorite jungler right now, (and for some time) has been Master Yi, but he gets banned quite a bit do to the devourer's thing so playing him isnt always an option, while I do have other roles I can play and other champs that I enjoy playing when I need to jungle and Yi is banned I am struggling to find a champ that fits as a good replacement, I also find he doesnt work in groups that went with and AD top and an AD mid, or doesnt have any kind of a front line, so there is just some times when my prefered jungler is of no use. Because of this I have tried out several Jungle champions, but none seemed to have quite fit so far, so I am coming here to see if I can get idea's from the more experienced players then me.

The Champs I have tried are Udyr, who I felt with a lack of an ultimate lacked a level 6 power spike and with bear form as his only form of mobility was to stationary for my tastes, everything else about him I liked though. Warwick, who I felt was honestly to boring and also had the mobility issue Udyr had. Sejuani, this one is so far the closest I have gotten to a champ like.. yes this is what I want out of a back up, she did AP damage ,she was tanky had mobility with her Q and even if they got away her E and her Ult could allow me to catch them (just using her E was often enough) I didnt feel I needed much at all to be useful with her, my only issue was her early clear felt very weak I was only able to clear 3 camps before I felt I needed to do my first back which is not the kind of sustain I am looking for, though its possible I played her wrong since I only tried a couple games on her. And finally I have tried 1 game of Xin Zhoa, not enough to get a full understanding but so far my impression is he lacks the mobility as well, his only means to close a gap is his E and if you dont get the 3 hits in by use his W and his Q to get them stunned they will get away if they have faster movement speed then you, or any ability that gives them mobility, you cant really close on them with out using your E either unless you have really good positioning, in which case Udyr I feel is better at that any way.

So what I am ultimately looking for is a Jungle champ with good clear and good mobility/ganking, so what do you guys suggest to fit this, I would personally prefer if they had either some tankyness to them or some AP aspects since that is one of the reasons I might not want to play Yi in some games as the compesitions dont match up. If there are multiple champions to try that fit this criteria please feel free to let me know I would love it... thank you.

4 Comments

JX00010/1/2015, 3:35:12 AM1 votes

What I tried to instead of playing Yi is nunu. It was super fun going to the enemy jungles and take all the camps. And nunu can still do a lot in ganking and supporting ur team. Just remember, if ur main champs getting banned, it is better for u to play something supporting the team not carrying the game. If u really wanna some late gamers like yi, u can try Kyle. She is VERY STRONG in late game.

DXHaseoXD10/1/2015, 4:11:26 AM1 votes

I would say amumu or naut might be fun for you, amumu with the bandage toss has great engage and cc, naut also has great engage with the anchor toss and the snares plus knockup ult. They clear pretty easily since they use aoe skills to help them clear and they are great at tanking so your team will be able to just smash their faces in.