Talk:Summoner's Rift/@comment-5955640-20141123225057/@comment-24439516-20141124163240

Actually the "jungle" of the retail version of League of Legends has never been a jungle because there's a vast majority of conifers in it, unlike real world tropical rainforests (commonly called "jungles"). Neither the "jungle" in DotA is a "jungle", but none of the veteran players of DotA (anyone who played it before the release of League of Legends) ever called it that way: they usually called it "forest" or "woods". Probably the nickname "jungle" for the forest in Summoner's Rift became widespread because in the alpha version back in 2008 it was an actual rainforest (like you can see in the image in the letter by the cofounders of Riot Games that introduce the new Summoner's Rift).