Bacchus as a Jungler?My friend is very interested in making him work in this role, and I’m helping her with a build, but we’re having a hard time searching for people playing him as a Jungler.
The build I made originally was:
Doom Orb, 
Shoes of the Magi, 
Chronos' Pendant, 
Spear of Desolation, 
Soul Reaver, 
Gem of Isolation, sell shoes for 
Rod of Tahuti.But after some testing, we came up with a second build:
Chronos' Pendant, Shoes of the Magi, 
Spear of the Magus, Spear of Desolation, 
Shaman's Ring, Rod of Tahuti, sell shoes for 
Ethereal Staff.What do you guys think about this?
Biggest issue is that
- Focus on leveling
Belly Flop. You're going to use up your initiation/escape to clear the jungle, but it provides immediate damage, which is good for jungle clear. It has poorer damage at each rank vs. all ticks of 
Belch of the Gods.
- Focus on leveling
Belch of the Gods. Better total damage, but it takes 2 seconds to apply all ticks, which makes it slower clear than more common junglers that can release their full damage from an ability at once, then being able to immediately follow up with basics.
Then you look at other reasons he's not a good option.- Basic attacks: His base basic attacks/second is 0.88 (+1%). That's SLOOOOOW. In comparison,
Athena has a base of 1 (+1.2%).
- Base damage: Again, let's compare to
Athena. Her level 1 of her minion clear deals 140 damage +100% scaling, and maxes at 560. Bacchus can't beat that.
- Although Athena can clear better and suits the jungle role better due to that, Bacchus has higher overall potential output, at least when considering burst damage. But this is due to his ult. IF you could get him over the very weak early clear, he could be a very good jungle option...but that's what's going to kill him.
If I were to try jungling with him, I'd probably startI'd then go into
His scaling is okay, but not super, which is why I probably wouldn't go