Riot Games has started testing the upcoming changes to League of Legends for the next 2023 season on the Public Test Realm (PBE) server and is collecting massive amounts of data and player feedback.
The developer’s assessment and guidance will ultimately determine whether or not these alterations make it into the final preseason release.
However, next year the jungle will appear drastically different due to Riot’s efforts to make the role more approachable. It’s far less popular than others because, as stated in a dev blog update two months ago, “wildly intricate sets of strategies and game knowledge [are] required [for players to be even remotely effective at the jungle.”
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As stated in a PBE post by Spideraxe30, the Summoner spell Smite will no longer heal the jungle but will do more damage as part of this campaign.
- unable to heal
- The damage was doubled, from 900 to 1800
- After the first upgrade, it becomes Primal Smite, granting the user the ability to smite champions for 20-160 true damage and a 20% slow for 2 seconds.
- With the second upgrade, it becomes Avatar Smite, dealing 1,200 damage and 50% more area-of-effect damage against non-champions and pets.
There is currently only one expansion for Smite. The jungle can purchase Emberknife or Hailblade, and after five uses, either will transform into Challenging Smite or Chilling Smite, respectively.
Primal Smite’s first upgrade, which deals damage and slows champions, is useful in the preseason, but the second upgrade is where the actual power lies. As it deals 1,200 damage in an area of effect to non-champions and pets, it helps the jungle deal with opponent pets and champions whose ultimates summon creatures, such as Annie’s Tibbers and Ivern’s Daisy.
It’s very similar to Season 5’s Ranger’s Trailblazer, which did the same amount of damage to all nearby minions and monsters, plus an additional 50%.
The standard jungle item is being replaced by pets, which may be purchased from the game’s shopkeeper. You can take out camps faster with their assistance, and they level up when you kill neutral creatures and opposing champions. You may strengthen them with treats, and then they’ll offer you special skills in their final form.
Jungle pets details
- Deals 25 + 4% bonus HP + 15% AP + 10% AD AoE true damage per attack against monsters
- Heals for 100% of damage dealt
- Retains gold and XP penalties from funneling
- Still grants bonus XP for the first large monster killed
- Grants 15 gold and XP per treat
In an LoL Pls post, Riot Games clarified that the intention “is not to ‘dumb down the jungle or remove the chance to show off your jungle knowledge,” but rather to make sure that the jungle is complex in the correct spots.
We’re looking into making some adjustments, such as adding jungle pathing aids—think of them as recommended goods, but for achieving your first clear.