User blog comment:ChickenKfc/Blame the jungler!/@comment-5001455-20130418232102

It's usually a cop-out excuse in a lot of cases to blame the jungler. People want to make the jungler the scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in a match of LoL. They might as well attribute junglers to the cause of cancer and world hunger.

Below are some random pet peeves of mine when it comes to the notion of jungling:

- Junglers are supposed to help the lanes out when they can through ganks and whatnot, but a jungler CANNOT be in all three lanes at once. As a result, realistically, a jungler has to choose a lane or two to focus on based on where they are and where the action is taking place. Sometimes, as much as people hate it, a given lane will naturally end up being neglected.

For instance, last night, I had a jungle game where top and bot lane were losing hard. I had to choose which lane to focus my ganks toward, and I opted for bot lane in this case because they literally had five+ deaths and counting during the laning phase. If I went for top lane instead, bot lane would have lost even further. It's not always an easy decision.

People just take their jungler for granted and start criticizing the jungler the moment when things go south in their lane. It is so annoying.

- If you make it nearly impractical for the jungler to gank your lane (e.g. pushing the lane too deep against your opponents), then you shouldn't be surprised that the jungler can't get successful ganks off. I get so annoyed when my teammates expect me to do something when they make a situation extremely unpleasant to gank.

- Easily in the top three most aggravating things that my teammates can pull on me when I am jungling is blaming me for something that has nothing to do with me. It can be something stupid like I am farming a jungle camp, and then someone at bot lane dies. Guess who gets the finger pointed at them? Me, of course.

Honestly, I really do believe that people just want to find fault with the jungler for something illogical just so they have something to say. I have had teammates tell me my farm count was too high. I have received blame for an ally getting hit by a skill-shot that I had no way of blocking for them.

Seriously, don't blame the jungler unless they actually do something wrong! And believe me - if I screw something up in the jungle, I will take accountability, but I will not put up with being the fall guy for no reason.