Riot Scruffy announced that jungle experience changes are finally coming to PBE. And finally, Junglers can stop complaining about the lack of XP gain.
The jungle has been in a pretty bad spot in Season 10. League of Legends subreddit and many pros like Jankos have spoken about the lack of XP and how easy it is to punish a jungle and make him 3-4 level down.
Regarding Jungle changes Riot stated that, With enough time to see the results on the preseason jungle changes, we’re seeing some goals were achieved and some not.
- Small nerfs – the jungle XP and gold are nerfed, but it’s looking like it’s a bit too hard in particular on farming and later game junglers.
- Pathing is more balanced – this goal was definitely achieved, not all paths are perfectly balanced with each other but we’re much closer here than we were in season 9
- Less early ganks more farm – this goal was not achieved, we’re seeing roughly the same amount of early ganking as season 9
They are trying to buff jungle XP slightly and skew towards incentives to farm over gank.
- Buffing jungle XP per min for minutes 4-18 and spreading it across the less targeted camps that are often skipped by gank heavy junglers
- Pushing back the minion farm penalty removal to further nerf funnel strategies (which are rare but extremely strong)
- Sett is Dominating Top Lane with a Massive 56.52% Win Rate in Patch 10.2
- Annie and Nautilus are Getting VFX Update in Patch 10.3
Explanation
- You hit level 5 a camp earlier if you only farm camps (after 9 camps, instead of 10). Level 6 is unchanged.
- Roughly a 4.5% overall increase to jungle experience gained from camps for levels 1-6.
- First spawned camps have an overall increase to experience, except Red (-10 experience) and Raptors (Stayed the same).
- Each camp gives more experience (between 10-18 based off which camp) after it has respawned.
Redditor NinetalesLoL made a table indicating EXP changes in champion level
Numbers:
He also tested the new EXP change off each camp.
First Spawn experience changes
Red: -10
Raptors: 0
Wolves: +10
Gromp: +10
Krugs: +16
Scuttle: +10
Blue: +5
Comment: It’s a buff for the Blue side jungle.
Respawn Experience Changes
Red: Untested
Raptors: +13
Wolves: +15
Gromp: +16
Krugs: +18
Scuttle: Untested
Blue: Untested
With all the number changes slow clearing champions will not fall behind that much anymore but the Gank Heavy champions will be more beneficial to the team.
