Riot wants to ‘widen the jungle champ pool’ in League of Legends

League of Legends lead gameplay designer Mark “Scruffy” Yetter took to the forum boards on Friday to provide players with insight into some potential changes that could be on the way.

Yetter’s update focused on how they are looking to balance the game and one of the most significant aspects of the update was a clear intention to ‘widen the jungle champion pool.’

These updates allow players to track the direction of the balance team even before the changes come to the Public Beta Environment.

Jungle Champion Pool

Regardless of whether the Jungle role is seen as strong or weak, low Elo players are currently dissatisfied with the position.

Yetter’s update revealed that Riot Games has a list of ways to fix the problem, starting with some changes in Patch 10.4 to add more champions to the jungle pool.

• Zed
• Diana
• Talon
• Darius
• Garen

Although these changes may not all make it to live, the focus is to buff the champions’ jungle clears without affecting their lane.

Riot wants to make jungling more appealing, and it’s apparent that the developer believes low-Elo players will start using these champions in different roles.

Are they viable Junglers though?

With the listed already having Area of Effect abilities, and a few of them having attack resetting abilities, their jungle clear should already be relatively strong, they would just need a buff to their damage to monsters to help them on their way.