@Meddler (or other contributing Red) - What happened to diversity?
Currently it appears that the entire meta revolves around 4 champions with some form of attack steroid in their kit or adcs and a support. I may be particularly skewed in my view as a jungle main, but every single jungler that LACKS as steroids or base as are having ridiculously painful/long clears and early backs. This is translating into a gold and experience deficit that snowballs itself as the game progresses.
Successful junglers at the moment include:
Previously useful junglers that are struggling MIGHTILY at the moment, and are therefore (in my opinion) unusable:
I've mostly been comparing jungle clear times and early gold. I'm not including effectiveness of kit, scaling, etc. I know there has to be some mitigating factors, but with the increased pace of games (unintentional or not) there is less room for slower clearing junglers to be able to maintain gold/exp and have an impact on the game.
Any feedback or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
It's good if you can handle the first clear - you can even do frog -> blue -> wolves, then back and buy it - and pretty much kills every problem you can have in the jungle, hell, if you have the full charges and take some damage after a gank you can just go in jungle, pop 3-4 charges and heal back when you farm.
(the last one was helped out immensely by the changes and has moved up a tier.)
) should the game actually last long enough. The over all effect is I am seeing basically just Lee and Elise every damn game which was old, stale, and stagnant back in season 3 and a direction that was moved away from quite specifically over the last 2 years to allow more junglers into the scene.
