Patch 5.19 - Makes Jungle AI let Twitch Jungle again, changes sated to make him non-viable.
I have well over a thousand games of jungle twitch over the year - He was my first true love way back in late season 1, and I played him through reworks, buffs, nerfs, and a visual update. And then a couple patches later he suddenly became a somewhat popular ADC and was nerfed to the fucking ground in Patch 4.16 and it became a painful experience, and I began to play other things (Like spirit stone into mejai's amumu for my ranked games), although I still played him of and on out of love.
Then patch 5.1 FUCKING KILLED HIM. I think there was another patch or two specifically designed to prevent ranged champions from jungling, but this one was the worst. I couldn't do it. My heart rotted, and I became a bitter abuser of any broken mechanic I could find. (SNARE MAXED JUNGLE RYZE WOOOOOOOOO)
I could go on about my exploits, but really, this game became a hollow shell of what it was for me when I could jungle twitch, try as I might to fill that shell with the tears of my enemies.
When I saw that Jungle AI was changed on PBE, I immediately tried Jungle twitch, only to find that while I could finally clear a camp without dieing again, Sated now only worked every 4th auto on ranged champions.
LIKE WTF! DOES RIOT REALLY THINK RANGED CHAMPIONS ARE THE ISSUE WITH SATED!
Kayle's been the only ranged champion to truly abuse it, and I haven't seen her since they nerfed her. And please, jungle Vayne is cool and niche, but it's only viable with real specific comps if the enemy team is half way decent, and is mostly symptomatic of her being too strong right now overall in the first place.
(Posted on the forums here)
Posted Sep 16, 2015, 5:26 AM UTC