[Patch 3.05: Balance Update] General Discussion - Page 101

On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So I've been playing some LoL (I'm bad, Bronze III or something, second lowest league there is), mainly because my school internet can't handle Dota 2 (but handles LoL fine, curiously). I've noticed that each persons role is typically decided by who types it out the fastest in chat. I like playing all the roles for the most part, so I normally just stay quiet.

So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

What are some good junglers I can pick that will allow me to gank earlier and shut my teammates up so they can't always blame me for losing their lane? Shen? Nocturne? I think I own Udyr? Amumu? Alastair?

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

[Also, weirdly enough, I play with my friend in Gold II a lot and I hold my own or excel in those games (but I never jungle). Is jungling just not my role?]

On April 18 2013 11:47 ticklishmusic wrote:


I share this belief.

I usually ask my lanes where enemy wards are. If they don't tell me, I'm gonna just keep farming huehuehue.

On April 18 2013 12:21 Sufficiency wrote:


Right.

I'd love to see a laner pointing out a lane can be ganked. But far too often a laner asks for a gank because he is behind. I am not gonna gank for such lanes, particularly when he is already behind and I probably do not have the red buff anymore - it's high-risk-low-reward. I rather go somewhere else.

On April 18 2013 12:23 schmutttt wrote:
Travis just tweeted that Liquid said the NA All stars will be practicing at the Curse house. Glad to hear they are taking it seriously.

On April 18 2013 12:27 overt wrote:


Everyone on that team is from one of the four top teams in NA. They all have a pretty big horse in the race for getting an extra slot at worlds.

On April 18 2013 12:29 onlywonderboy wrote:

Only teammates are Dyrus and Xpecial so this will be crucial for developing any real semblance of teamwork.

On April 18 2013 13:39 Dusty wrote:
they should call themselves 'Chicks Dig LP" imoimo

editing post to prevent doublepost-

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1cl4hs/special_azubu_tpa_skins_coming_on_tw_server/

TPA S2Worlds themed skins; this looks cool as fuck,

On April 18 2013 14:32 overt wrote:
The Orianna skin is pretty disappointing imo. But the rest are cool as shit. That Nunu skins looks so good that I might have to start playing him.

On April 18 2013 14:18 WaveofShadow wrote:

Wow....those are amazing.

On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)