Ranged AD Carry Jungle Meta

One of the interesting things I've thought (And somewhat tested) is the idea of a ranged AD carry jungle. The reason this wouldn't work in a conventional team comp is that there is only 1 AP carry and the jungle tends to need to be tanky on top of that. This combined with the fact that people seem to prioritize armor more than ever due to the meta being tanky bruiser top, tanky bruiser jungle, and ad carry bot and thus many people run armor yellows and get armor in the mastery tree if not armor blues or quints on top of it (As is the case with some solo-top players)

There is, of course, a workaround to this disadvantage and it requires an organized team to pull off as it is somewhat unconventional. The idea I present to you is to have a tanky AP hero in both the solotop and middle position. Heroes that I would suggest for this role are: Ryze, Malphite, Galio, Vladimir, Tanky Kennen, Yorick, (I know he's not AP but I think he does alot of magic damage) and maybe more. The reason for doing this is that I forces the enemy to not just stack armor or they will be punished for it and gives your team some damage soak to boot. I would also recommend that you run Support Nunu with this build for the slow and bloodboil with double ad along with the fact that he is somewhat tanky.

Next I will discuss which AD carry is best suited for the jungle. The 3 that I would suggest (All for quite different reasons) are Ashe, Vayne, and Twitch. Let me lay out the benefits of each.

Ashe: She is my top recommendation? Why? Because of her great utility. She can scout enemy buffs to steal or prevent with her hawk shot. Her arrow coming from the jungle is great global initiate and harder to predict if coming from fog of war. Successful positioning of ganks will cause perma-slow and will likely secure a kill or a double summoner skill use. She also recently received a slight increase in her base hp and armor which improves her stability in jungle. (I tested her before these buffs and she was fine even then)

Vayne: First and foremost is her ganking potential; because of her ability to condemn into a wall or towards a teammate and deal massive damage with few items due to silver bolts as well as her chasing ability due to her passive she really shines at ganking. Secondly she clears the jungle quite quickly with some attack speed because of silver bolts. Pick Vayne if you would like more damage and less utility.

Twitch: Twitch is great solely because of the mind games and ability to force costly mistakes from opponent. Twitches mere presence forces your opponent to do one of 3 things: Reposition wards to less optimal places so they can see you before you stealth to gank them, buy pink wards and put them in/around their lane, or play super close to their tower which gives your lanes free farm and makes them lose cs to tower. If they do one of the first 2 you can simply farm the jungle and invade your opponents jungle to cause their investment in wards to go to waste assuming your teammates are competent enough to not die in the laning phase.

As far as the build goes I would probably do cloth 5 pots into madreds boots 1 into wriggles double dorans and boots 2 (Zerker grieves) into phantom dancer and IE. Something along those lines to have decent early game jungling and good late game damage. Obviously you drop the doran's blades for last whisper late game too.

For runes I would go attack speed reds, armor yellows, choice blue and quints but attack speed in those departments wouldn't be bad for speed of jungling and to combo with the early wriggles and dorans blade for damage. And masteries 21/9/0 9/12/9 and 21/0/9 are probably all fine, I don't think you can really go wrong although I wouldn't suggest putting 21 in utility no matter what because it will be very slow jungling with minimal benefit to other important departments.

So in conclusion, I would recommend someone try this. It's somewhat gimmicky but I think quite viable and could flat out throw somebody off.

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Hello, my name is Worthing AKA Mightbegod. I unfortunately don't really have a computer capable of playing League of Legends but have played it alot in the past and watch alot of streaming and tournament play. The computer I used to play on ran LoL at about 16 FPS but still I managed to stay around neutral ELO (I'm currently 1250, but I'm saving up for a better computer and hope to improve very much on that soon.) I think the area in which I excel is theory crafting, I see possibilities that others may overlook pretty often. So that's mostly what this blog will be about until I get a good computer up and running. Make sure and follow me and my progress! Hope you enjoy!