Riot looking to tweak jungling in League of Legends, ‘the current strategy is fairly stagnant’
By Tim Colwill on October 18, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Riot’s assistant game design Statikk has taken to the League of Legends forums to answer concerns about jungling and the role of support.
“The current dominant jungle strategy (GP10 Support / Tanks) is fairly stagnant and the overall current jungle playstyle in many cases severely limits potential strategy and choices in other lanes/roles as well,” writes Statikk. “One large problem is that efficient farming of the jungle has very little pay off compared to constantly applying lane pressure by camping / ganking. Overall junglers severely lack in gold unless they successfully gank and snowball the game from the get-go and/or opt for a GP10 strategy.”
“The approach we’re currently taking is to significantly increase the rewards of jungle camps over time (junglers already have a huge impact on the early game). To go along with this though, we are buffing jungle camps back up to actually be more threatening while simultaneously offering new / improved item paths that allow players to specialize in the jungle. Overall we want junglers to be rewarded for building combat stats rather than always being forced to build gold generation items.”
Source: LoL Forums via PCGamesN
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Stonewall, known for his jungle video guides and tier lists, has posted an in-depth look at how the new jungle changes will affect various heroes.
Is LoL news popular here? You’ve been trying to make a fair few pieces of news about LoL (though nothing about reworked Twisted Treeline yet :P ) though they almost never get comments (except that last time).
I’ll make sure to tie all future LoL pieces into daylight savings references :P
exe3,
I think LoL is the most played PC game at the moment according to some statistics like XFire tracking, so stories pertaining to it are pretty relevant.
Tim Colwill,
Good idea. ;)
jez,
Yeah I guess. Maybe i’m just surprised to be seeing the news here for some reason. *shrugs*
I always read them exe3, so please don’t assume nobody enjoys the articles. Comments don’t reflect number of views, they usually just involve the circle fap comments and/or flame wars on certain topics.
I always read the LoL related news here as well. Lurkers are people too.
Indeed. Guess it’s just odd for me to see as some around here think it’s hip to hate on LoL and I always already know all this info because I live on devtracker. XD Maybe you could hire me to do the LoL news. ;)