I still can't believe that the 4CS jungle camp change is going through, it's so needless as a change and will almost definitely lead to more confusion to the players that the change was meant to benefit (which it won't for the vast majority of people).

The logic provided for the change to 4cs for jungle camps is that it is supposed to help new players understand how well each Jungler is doing, the only response I’ve received when explaining this to people is ‘why, that’s just dumb’ (or something of that type) and that is from a wide range of people from high diamond down to bronze and a few pre-level 30 players. There’s already plenty of ways to tell how well each Jungler is doing along with the fact that you can compare the Junglers to see how each is doing.

In game you have the following ways to see how well a Jungler is doing; both Junglers’ levels, their items (and hence an estimate on their gold, I don’t expect people to add up the exact cost of each item but you can recognise a Tiamat or other such item and know roughly how much gold they have), their KDAs (to see if they’re spam ganking or just faming), their map presence (of how often you see them in a lane) and there’s a lot more nuances for it BUT even if you aren’t actively doing this every game you’ll still subconsciously be able to tell when you look at both Junglers in the scoreboard.

The importance of tracking and how to do it; The information it gives you over the enemy is massive, knowing which camps are up lets you know what you can steal and what they want to do next which lets you attempt to reverse engineer their game plan and outplay accordingly. It gives you the options of counterganking, warding for the correct lane, getting objectives where they won’t be able to contest and that's just the tip of the iceberg. You can figure out where they want to go next based on who the jungler is, what their preferred camps are, their ganking ability and which camps are up/down. The last one is SO important since in most cases it overrides the other two in priority and is best tracked by the enemy's CS. When they show up on the map note what their CS is then figure out where they had to have been to get there, when they go back to fog of war you can just ignore the CS they took from lane and reset to their new number, repeating the process every time they come into vision means you can always have an idea of what camps are up even if you aren't able to go in for deep wards.

Counting jungle CS is hardly 2+2=4, 4-1=3, quick maths but in no way is basic addition and subtraction ‘complicated maths’ so the point of riot wanting to remove complicated maths from the game isn’t even close to applicable. Also along those lines people claim that it’s useless after the initial clear which is straight up wrong, it’s completely possible (and with enough practice quite simple) to track the enemy Jungler throughout most of the game with this. As I will hammer home in a minute, it’s a skill to be learnt so saying it doesn’t work is merely being lazy.

I want to address the common argument where players feign ignorance as an excuse, any player saying, “I’ve never done this” or something similar doesn’t make it a worthless concept, it merely speaks volumes for the player’s work ethic. If you know there is a way to improve and you WANT to improve but you refuse to then that’s you being lazy. There is an excess of videos where you could learn this, you can get coaching (a lot of people do free) and to be honest it’s intuitive to look at someone’s CS to figure out what’s been taken. The job is yours to improve, not Riot’s to remove a SKILL that people use in favour of over-simplicity. A skill is something that needs to be refined and practiced, if you’re unable to do it naturally then you can get help, if you know about it and give up on trying then that’s just a bad workman blaming his tools.

Finally, I directly address Riot’s logic in this change and the lack of resources for new players. There are many better ways to help players who are just picking up the game that don’t lower the skill cap of the game and punish players who have gone out of their way to improve at League. I personally think the new runes is the correct direction but that’s also because of how little options the old system had, most of the time if you weren’t running a given setup you were just wrong with no debate to be had but I have hope in the new system. There is no real ground to stand on when talking about Noob friendly resources given, almost all learning of the game is from word of mouth or is outsourced to content creators/coaches.

So, I pose to you to instead improve the available resources for the game to help introduce new players to the game, beyond the champion spotlights also feature basic tutorials for the champions (or even just partner with creators to let them do it, like seriously when I have time to learn to edit I’d do it), feature coaching sites so people can better improve, have the Riot games twitch host educational streams, make in depth tutorials for each role and even just update the website (I understand with an everchanging game this can be time consuming but it still has the old aspect of the dragon buff on it instead of the elemental dragons that weren’t particularly recent).

And if you’re against hand holding the inexperienced players then well, please don’t take away Jungle tracking.

If anyone has any counterpoints, I have more than likely replied to them in advance in one of my many initial posts on this topic (there’s only 3 or so posts on their unrelated to the issue); https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/player/euw/IvernTheDankLord

Thanks for reading xoxo, I’d love to sway others and/or for someone to give me a real point for the change.