User blog comment:Leyrann/Worst game ever?/@comment-5162027-20121020072732/@comment-5194571-20121021225605

I have the same problem with jungling. I like it, but it's so rare that I get a decent team that understand what a jungler actually does. They just think "jungler gives me buffs, jungler ganks my lane, jungler is everywhere at once". It sucks. Almost always, I get teams where all 3 lanes push hard, then beg for ganks at level 4 when I can't survive a turret dive. Or teams that push hard, then blame me for not ganking. It sucks...

My biggest problem with jungling is the metagame at the moment. It favors champions with escapes. And as if by chance, the junglers I like best (Trundle, Hecarim, Udyr) all get screwed over by escapes because they rely on being in melee range to do anything. I used the 2 day IP boost after the season 2 championships specifically to buy Maokai to jungle with because he doesn't get screwed over by escapes.

Keeping with the topic of the blog, and jungling, my worst game ever (and also my best game ever, technically) was me on jungle Maokai one day when he was free. We had my friend playing Swain for the first time solo top, and he did decent. An Akali mid who only cared about herself and a kill lane with Jax and one other bot. I did really well, and got quite far into my build. My friend won top despite being new to Swain, too. Then came my epic moments. About 25 minutes in, I got into a 3v1 fight trying to defend a turret. Swain and Jax had just died. Akali was at our blue (red team) while I was fighting just after our first turret bot had died. It took 3 people about 20 seconds to kill me. Akali just stayed at blue buff, totally ignoring the epic 3v1 fight taking place 10 seconds away from her. I died, but Jax at least was nice and game me a "gj mao" for lasting that long. Nice guy. Then it happened again. This time, my allied Swain got caught pushing 2nd bot turret alone. He died 4v1, taking the enemy Veigar low in the process. Naturally, Swain died. I turned up just as Veigar was backing off to a nearby brush to recall. I took him out. I then got jumped by the other three that took Swain down; Renekton, Rammus and Graves. Thanks to epic items, an epic passive and being against a spam-happy team, it took the three of them around 45 seconds to kill me alone. I lived for just that long. None of them had Last Whisper or Void Staff. I just got to proc my passive over and over and over again. Despite being effectively 4v1, I took out both Veigar and Rammus in the end. All that time, Akali stole the enemy red buff and then pushed top, totally ignoring me yet again. Jax got very mad at Akali (and rightfully so), constantly pinging me while telling her to help me. During the engage, Swain couldn't help but mock the enemy team for struggling to kill me with so many people. "How long does it take for you to kill a single Maokai?" he said. Jax, once again, was impressed and was nice as usual to me. What makes it my best game ever was that I was just so unkillable to the point that the damage taken over the engage in the death recap reset. It took so long to kill me, that the death recap only listed a few hundred damage. That alone was funny in itself, but the feeling of actually being near-invincble was just so epic. What makes it my worst game ever was that despite being tanky enough to win teamfights just by being the point of focus, we lost because only three of us actually worked as a team, while the other two (Akali and one more), went off on their own and threw it. They ruined all that epic. Sad...