Still have not been able to pursue many projects for reasons outside my control, and most of my updates end up in drafts, so there haven't been many posts as of late. Lately though friends have been inviting me to play league of legends (sadly) more, and as I used to be the resident support player on account of it being incredibly easy and the fact I don't have to care about anything. More recently however I've been thinking of learning another role, in the event support is taken, and very unfortunately for me after compiling a list of every character whose design I really liked, every single one was a jungler or support. Hesitantly I decide to give jungle a try since I like a lot of the character designs in it compared to the more average laners, so far it seems its really fun when everythings going well, and hell when everything is going badly / lanes are all solo losing. I do have a jungler friend who's given some tips and such while playing which has been helpful, but I'm still pretty shit.

originally I started maining fiddlesticks due to: owning him, being one of my favorite designs, and being pretty easy to play. And I've been doing pretty well at him I feel, I get most objectives, decent cs/m, can carry to an extent, good teamfights, and if everythings going to shit I can still come back into the game with a good ult. After trying a couple other characters I just stuck to fiddlesticks because hes fun as hell, I got to try a game of wukong in an aram one day though and decided to learn him next since he felt really fun. Unfortunately for me wukong sucks dick and balls. From the games I've done with him it feels like if I don't get kills I'm more or less useless, which is very annoying as most laners tend to steal my kills when I play him and I end up being a worse support (70% KP with only a single kill and many assists) My ganks largely revolve around my teammates, and my general gameplan mainly relies on praying the enemy team doesn't get several kills before my first clear. With any jungler of course it's a massive pain to have people die before first clear but it's been feeling especially punishing as wukong, but it is what it is.

As for jungle itself, it's pretty fun despite the difficulties. I really enjoy the macro over micro side of things for most of the characters, it feels like not doing many combos in fighting games but still winning matches off good neutral. At the moment I think my biggest issue is ganks and farming, it feels like most characters I play against have some sort of dash or jump or speed boost or anything to get away, which is a pain while looking for good ganks since laners also rarely set anything up. Farming wise, I feel like I fall behind very often and usually hover around 5-6 cs/m, partially due to bad time management and partially due to having to save laners from dying solo. Despite it all it's still pretty fun.

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