2011-12-05, 07:34 PM
WillDaSnail Wrote:Did engineering problems nearly kill you?
Anyways, same goes for me. Not much LoL until the end of the semester (which is end of next week, btw). Which means I get rusty at LoL just like you do. (Then again, I raped face with Jungle Cho this past weekend as a result of me needing to take a break from studying + testing the hotfixed jungle. Jungle Cho sleeper OP jungler now. Calling it).
I have to disagree with the whole sleeper OP thing. Cho'Gath is a good jungler, but not OP. The reason he's not OP is as always for two reasons: First, he requires a skillshot knockup to gank. Skillshot cc is not a reliable ganking method. If you're lucky, you might kill them or burn flash/blink ability. If you're unlucky, well you just opened yourself up to harass and kiting while revealing yourself to the other lanes.
However it's the secondary reason that is the main reason jungle Cho will never be OP; he requires a solo lane's worth of farm. Now don't get me wrong, you can still do a lot with an underfarmed Cho'Gath, he's got some nice burst and utility even then. However, you're not going to be surviving team fights and being a big scary monster for long if you're at all underfarmed. The more items you have on him, the better Cho gets. And as a jungler, you're always going to be behind a solo in farm. And that's going to start showing up mid-late game. Mid game, it might be dying once or twice when you wouldn't have with that one more item. Or maybe it'll mean missing out on an easy kill, but it'll probably be a relatively small disadvantage. When it starts getting to late game though, that's when being underfarmed as Cho will lose games for your team. In an ideal scenario, every time you die late game, it results in at least two deaths on the enemy team, maybe more. If they focus you, your team should be wiping them out. And if they don't focus you, you should be full comboing at least one or two carries, resulting in their death or flight from the team fight. However, if you're at all underfarmed, you'll be lucky to take one person with you, or even more unluckily, they ignore you and focus everyone else down, leaving you in a 4 or 3 v 1, where all you can do is run or die.
TLDR: Unless they change things up a bit more, solo top Cho will always be preferred to jungle Cho so he can get fully farmed.