TL;DR Because of changes to the jungle as part of Season 7, I am proposing a new way of measuring junglers’ early-game effectiveness.

Key Findings

Changes to the jungle for the 2017 season have created some loss of meaning in one of the oldest statistics used for professional play: CS Difference at X minutes. The addition of more small creeps in the raptor and krug camps has created wider variance in the value of a single creep score (CS), leading to inflated CS gaps for junglers without any real difference in the gold or experience gaps being generated.

These changes have some implications for how we should report on junglers’ early-game head-to-heads. Continue reading Jungler slash lines improve measurement of early-game effectiveness →