Greetings fellow summoners of the Fediverse. Imma try to contribute some content to the magazine regarding the upcoming jungle nerfs.

I’ve heard through that Riot is getting ready for a jungle nerf in the near future (phroxzon suppsedly posted some Xcrement on Musk’s dumpster fire). What is the impression of jungle in your games and on which rank are you playing?

I’m in bronze and mained jungle the previous two seasons whereas I play sidelanes now (top atm but adc is fine as well). I get that jungle is very impactful by concept, but I feel like this doesn’t transfer two low elo games directly. Here are my reasons:

  1. In general jungle is behind on exp and gold compared to solo lanes to offset the higher impact.
  2. So if you just afk farm, you will be behind solo lanes.
  3. You’ll have to make some plays then. Making successful plays depends on your judgment of the map state and what happens next.
  4. Because you and everyone in the game is dumb and won’t behave like they should if they’d understand the game, you can’t rely on “proper decision making”, even if you make the right call.
  5. This means it’s very random if your calls will work or not.

So here’s what I conclude: Your jungler will either play it safe and will be behind all game or he will try to get fed but he doesn’t have the biggest agency about it if he’s not a smurf that has a way better understanding of the game. So you’ll just flip a coin and see if your jungler snowballs or the other.

If the upcoming jungle nerfs will target jungle economy again I’ll suppose this will get worse. A better way to nerf jungle in regards to game health would be to reduce the skill ceiling in jungling; maybe it’s a “Zeri problem” where better players are just too good for the role.

Don’t ask me how to do this, though. Only thing I can contribute is that I’ve seen both sides of blaming jungle that I think the role is shit in low elo. I don’t even jungle anymore but everytime our premade has a random jungler from the interwebs in our team I hear the poor guy playing just as bad as ourselves but of course he’s the problem. If we win then of cooourse we carried like hell.

I love the whole macro aspect of jungling but I won’t touch that toxic role anywhere soon. Toplane is so fun in comparison: You’ll fight mano-a-mano and both of you are still reasonably fed after lane if someone didn’t run it down completely. You’ll get to play your first 15 mins in peace and then you’ll join clown-fiesta and see how it goes lol.

Thanks for coming to my FedTalk