A trick to improve jungling for Tanks: get a Support Item.

Duke Anax·Feb 25, 2015·1 votes·549 views

That's right folks, in S5 the jungle items and the support items have a different gold generation mechanism so can be used together.

The best choice here seems targons brace, because it has the longest recharge, but the others may work due to passive gold genearation.

If you use that, every 1m30 you can gank and get get an additional 2x150 heal and 60-80 gold. Thats the old Spirit Stone items from S4 in reverse.

This seems resonable enough to spend the gold on as your second item after smite.

Face of the Mountain also synergizes quite well with Juggernaut.

5 Comments

Faith BreakerFeb 25, 20151 votes

I don't think it works like that.

GundayMondayFeb 25, 20151 votes

That makes a lot of sense for tank junglers that scale with health. Thanks for the tip, will try it out!

Faith BreakerFeb 25, 20151 votes

You have to buy Relic Sheild = This means you lose gold in order to purchase this.

You won't start Relic Sheild, you would start Machete. If you buy Relic Sheild on your first back, you can't upgrade your Jungle Item. This is BAD for a jungler. A jungler that can't or doesn't upgrade their Machete on first recall is far behind.

If the jungler upgrdes their Machete, they don't have enough gold for Relic Sheild. They have to return to the jungle and earn gold to purchase the Relic Sheild.

When they DO purchase the Relic Sheild, the only gold it generates is per charge NEAR AN ALLY. Relic Sheild holds 2 charges. You can't possibly believe those 2 charges of bonus gold will EVER pay for the item.

You have to spend MORE gold to upgrade this item, and since you ARE NOT IN A LANE you don't have the instant opportunity to expend a charge.

This idea does not work. You don't make extra gold. You waste gold, time, and an item slot. Sure, go ahead. Try it out. After a few games come back to this thread and tell us how it works out for you. If it works please tell me how it went because I'd sure love to know the finer mechanics of this being a viable strategy.

GundayMondayFeb 26, 20151 votes

LOL.

There's a way you could make it work. So negative!

Faith BreakerFeb 26, 20151 votes

It's not negativity. You post an idea on the forum you are seeking the feedback of others I gave my feedback. The internet is NOT a place to post your opinion or your personal work, with the exectation that only people with rainbows in their eyes and diamonds upon their tongue are gonna come by and blow cotton candy up your bum chute. The support gold revenue Items are designed to generate gold for a role that is not last hitting minions. The gold you spend to purhase the Relic Sheild will never be earned back by any amount of jungle pathing

I go on to encourage you to try this out, and state I'm looking forward to listening to the feedback. So how do you even climb up on your soapbox and cry and whine and play like a victim. I'm not being negative. You're just being a toad.