i always see people shitting on other people for playing what they think is jungle strike… and i would think the same thing after losing to those supposed jungle players… but the more i play them, the more i realize there’s a method to their madness. obviously there are those who don’t actually have any “method”… i’m just saying that it’s easy to dismiss someone’s playstyle as jungle, until u play them enough times.
“jungle” is fitting because a jungle is wild. if u have no fear or respect for it, u could get unexpectedly shot by an arrow, or raped by a gorilla. or whatever. that’s probably the angle these junglists are taking… it’s just another way to put fear in u…
It might be hard to appreciate a jungle player just watching them play. Based on personal experience I’d say jungle players are the most capable of beating players of a higher skill than them. It’s not a style that promotes consistently, but that’s why I like it as the lead off or 2nd spot in a 3v3. Mitigates the riskiness. Hard to win a singles tournament that way though.
i think jungle is just not worrying about failure.
if you want to see how drastically vanao can change things. look for the matches where he plays sa1 and uses hadou, low forward and a few other moves to win matches. no risky stuff at all. just spacing and mostly hadou.
the guy knows what he’s doing when he plays jungley. he just chooses to play that way because that’s how he likes to play I would guess.
Ok then what is the opposite of jungle? I wouldn’t say a good player or anything. That’s more about balancing offense and defense. So what about someone who is at the far end of the defensive spectrum?
A turtle? Unwilling to take risks; probably going off of reaction?
There are moments where you seriously just gotta go jungle. I dislike it, but sometimes, it’s going to get the job done for you. All for that win, right?
i don’t see turtle and jungle as being opposites of the same scale. a turtle is a defensive player, but i don’t perceive jungle as necessarily playing aggressively or rushing down all the time. to me, jungle is more like making theoretically bad decisions, like unsafe moves or not choosing the statistically best or lowest risk decisions in a given situation, but still succeeding because of the opponent’s inability to punish correctly or adapt fast enough to prevent the jungle player from winning. i figure it’s possible to play defensively and jungle at the same time, though it’s probably rare. if turtle and rushdown are opposites, i would say jungle and “moral” play are opposites, with the latter meaning a player who prefers the textbook options that are best on paper, but can either end up good or bad in real matches.
you can’t punish max range sweep with s.hp. maybe you were playing somebody better and they knew you’d botch that punish, so they srked your hand. nah, who am i kidding. lag only affects the people who write the posts.
the opposite of jungle is always choosing the best possible option. which isn’t really possible. like if there are 5 possible options and 2 of those options beat 3 options, then just mostly using those. basically not picking the option that only beats 1 option. because the likelihood is low.
mov seems kind of like a good example of a very non-jungle sort of player. i think. unless im picturing someone else in my head. but im thinking mov.