I just look for opportunities on the minimap and sprint down the map if I see one. Now I don't even have to guess, but it's basically the same gameplay. If he didn't buy them, you could then use that information to set up a sure-kill gank with a lot of junglers, like Vi or Elise. If you saw midlane go to base, you could hawk his inventory when he first appeared back in lane and check to see if he had wards. I guess the worst of it is that Eve basically lets me play the jungle as it used to be played, where you could look at inventories and guess when people were placing wards. She's the second most-banned character right now after Kassadin, at 85.1%. In ranked play, it's probably best just to ban her, and her ban rate has skyrocketed to a massive 57% in ranked games. There is only one strategy now, and that's to play completely safe because Eve could be coming to kill you at any moment. There is no more "defend against Evelynn with pinks" strategy. However, that counter-strategy is completely gone. If I caught wind that the enemy support bought pinks, I would just camp mid or top lane or look for the enemy jungler and kill him. It happened every now and then, but she could counter with pink wards of her own or just gank other lanes that didn't buy pink wards. In lower-level (below platinum) level play, Evelynn isn't that much stronger because people didn't really use pink wards in Season 3 to counter her that much. Again, I can do this because I can place wards that tell me where the enemy jungler is, when he has no idea where I am and cannot possibly know unless he wards his own jungle camps. More than once I've done this and ended up with a triple kill for my team, with my mid lane and me roaming down to bottom lane to kill the jungler first, then diving the enemy bottom lane's turret and killing both the marksman and support. With a faster cooldown Smite and just one minute alone in the enemy jungle, I can counter-jungle two camps and greatly weaken a farm jungler's rotation, essentially forcing him to attempt a gank that I almost certainly know is coming. If I have even a reasonable guess about where the enemy jungler is, I can use the opportunity to completely crap on him. How powerful, then, is a character who is completely invisible to wards? Wards are harder to counter and stronger than ever. With just a quick ping, my laners became safe and/or worse, the enemy jungler became dead. I've seen even sneaky junglers like Kha'Zix (who is quite strong right now) walk through a random ward placed in his jungle or just at his river entrances. In most of my recent games, this expanded vision has completely nerfed my enemy junglers. Pink wards are riskier, and there is no Oracle, so both teams can more safely deploy stealth wards and get vision. Ward trinkets cut down on the overall expenditure of stealth wards, and a strong lead in any lane often lets a lane freely deploy wards in the enemy jungle that would previously be spent warding that lane or the river. But more importantly, she can do what few other junglers do well: gank. She clears fast, deals tons of damage, and scales well with items. While there are a few other junglers that are considered to be very strong, I feel that Evelynn is the best of the best right now. Every game thus far I've gone 5/1 or better in the laning phase. I probably could have played Eve there too. Now, I have not yet played a normal or ranked game in 3.14 that was on a character other than Evelynn save for one game where I was stuck playing mid (and lost horribly). Before the 3.14 patch, she was one of my go-to picks in the jungle. It shouldn't be a surprise that Evelynn is one of my favorite characters in League of Legends.
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