Canyon Debate: The Jungler Champion in Peak Match Appearance Rate: Should He Go Mid or Jungle? (Part 2)

With the success of mages in the jungle, and their stats skyrocketing, some players are naturally debating how they'd perform if they were to return to the mid lane. It's like the support Yang Yuhuan or Zhang Liang: would they be more effective if they returned to full damage? The answer is easy: jungle.

Strong jungler, weak mid laner

Zhuge Liang's jungle prowess lies in his economy. He primarily uses his ultimate, Vitality Bomb, to cultivate his passive. A single wave of mid laners isn't enough. Furthermore, even if his passive triggers after his displacement is used up, by the time he wants to support the development lane or fight, the long journey will have already negated his painstakingly accumulated passive. Reality is cruel: with no gold and no damage, the jungle is rich with resources, and if you spend more time on the lanes, you'll have decent development progress. Conversely, in the mid lane, you teleport and take on all three lanes. This is unsightly and creates a distorted mentality, causing imbalance among teammates. After switching to the jungle role, everyone agrees that you need gold to buy equipment and gain an advantage as quickly as possible, and they'll make concessions.

The middle lane cannot provide Zhuge Liang's economic and output needs

Back to the skill mechanism, there are many wild monsters in the jungle, and it is easy to accumulate passive skills. When you catch people with the passive skill, at least you have several layers on your body, and you can output immediately after entering the field. You can advance and retreat, but the risk in the middle lane is very high. If you walk in, you have to move close to the face to output. You are fully equipped with magic equipment. If you don't get hit, you will easily die suddenly. In the end, it turns into using big skills randomly. Only when the harvest is successful can you continue to output. Otherwise, you have to throw the first skill to consume while moving back to save your life, which is contradictory.

Playing in the middle lane consumes a lot of mana, and without the blessing of the blue buff, you are forced to buy the Holy Grail, but the fit is not high, the damage is weakened by yourself, and you go home too frequently, which is equivalent to reducing the support efficiency and development speed. No matter how you look at it, the middle lane has too many disadvantages, and the jungler also has it, that is, he is too weak in the early stage. When encountering a hero who is particularly strong in the early stage, the lineup is not strong, and teammates are not aware enough and will not counterattack. Then after the collapse, it is extremely difficult to restore the original rhythm. The whole process is stressful, even worse than the middle lane. In the end, you are scolded for not supporting, not harvesting, not killing dragons, and just leading the line. No one cares about your economic level.