League’s little helpers: Why Riot wanted to add new Jungle Pets as soon as possible

This year’s League of Legends preseason added and changed plenty of aspects of gameplay, including altetions to items, champions, and certain positions. The biggest changes to the Rift came in between the lanes, with the jungle receiving a mountain of relative tweaks.

The most obvious of these is “jungle pets”: companions who follow and assist you in performing jungle-related tasks throughout the course of a game.