League of Legends' new jungle pets' aim is to help new players
Matt Leung-Harrison, Riot's lead developer for League of Legends, has stated that jungle pets were added to make jungling more accessible to new players.
Image credit: PA Images Action from the League of Legends e-sports world championshipJungling has been simplified significantly with the recent addition of jungle pets, who assist in guiding the player through jungling objectives.
"In preseason, we set out to make jungle more accessible to newer players (and existing)," Leung-Harrison said on Twitter.
"Newer junglers playing the game don't understand any of the wall-of-text mechanics on the previous jungle items.
"Pet gives an understandable metaphor for why camps are getting damaged, why you get healed, why [jungle] gets bonuses from clearing camps, and an understandable metaphor for why the unlocks happen when they do (evolution), catchup mechanics (pet is starving) rather than some arbitrary rules.
"For newer players, this is far easier to understand."
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