In watching a lot of scrimmages lately, it seems like getting the Blue Buff is a more important objective then getting the Red Buff, and at certain points it is more important than getting second tier towers. Why is this?
League-of-legends – Is the Blue Buff (even with the nerf) stronger than the Red Buff? If so, Why
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The Ancient Golem stats:
- Health: 1450 + 175 per minute
- Attack Speed: 0.613/sec
- Damage: 110
- Critical Chance: 0%
- Armor: 24
- Magic Resistance: 0
The two minions that follow him, are in fact Young Lizard's:
- Health: 350
- Attack Speed: 0.679/sec
- Damage: 18
- Critical Chance: 0%
- Armor: 8
- Magic Resistance: 0
Note: I couldn't find any information, about the health regeneration.
First Off, I dont know what is your current ranked ELO, but as far as I know, on mid-high ELO ranked games, both teams have a jungler, by saying so, if the opposite jungler allows you to steal red/blue buffs and other monsters you will be ahead exp/gold wise.
If the other team does not have a jungler, and you have appropriate map control you can wipe their jungle up and that will harm the opposite team because carries usually want to get red buff before team fights, and so do mages with the blue buff.
Take into account that in these mid-high ELO ranked games, usually the teams coordinate up to gank the junglers who usually begin on the blue buff, the map below illustrates the points where the ganks are prepared:
Therefore as your ELO scales up, you should consider alternative jungling routes, the one I do on most of my junglers is the following:
1) Golems
2) Wraths
3) Wolves
4) Recall to base
5) Blue or Red, depeding on the need for a gank and in current gold/items
6) By the time you are done with Blue or Red the Golems should have been respawned again, rinse and repeat.
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It's definitely more important than red buff. It allows the ap mid to spam abilities all day, whereas red adds a slow and some minor damage. I wouldn't say that it's more important than second tier towers, and I would say that there might be something you're missing in games where it seems to be that way. Perhaps they weren't strong enough to take down the second tower safely, but they knew they could take the blue. Or they knew that dragon was coming up soon, and they had time to take blue and get drag (or go back and get drag) but not get the tower in that same time frame. Or perhaps the ap was oom, and they needed the poke to secure the tower kill.