Jungle Mains Please read. Giving jungle items flexible build paths.

Increase the gold of jungle items but make it so refund you gold when you clear enough camps. such that you only pay for the value of the smite active (the only aspect of it that you can use on the battle field). the price of stays the same. Lets be real the cost of going from + to shouldn't be 450 gold. How can the stats devourer gives be worth 450 gold. Something is wrong here, you don't see this pattern anywhere else. too much of devourers full value is placed into its jungle stats as opposed to its usefulness vs champions and late game power. the same applies to the other jungle items. + + 525gold = . that 525 accounts for 35 ad a 1.2k gold value.

it could start at level 1. with either or , each refunding it cost after clearing say 5 camps. 10 camps for both.

Lane champions don't have to buy any item just to farm lane minions, why are junglers subject to this?

if your goal is to force junglers to afk farm early game was to delay the early game power / frequency of ganks, I can understand some (nothing worst than facing a shaco starting with& ) , but as is its too much. If you must, make it so you get refunded the gold for the jungle stats after clearing 20 camps.

I had to learn that until I completed my jungle item I could not trade with anyone despite having scenarios I wish I could. Say my mid back I hold lane, the enemy midlaner makes a bad play that should be punished but I can't do anything because I'm sitting on useless stats. . I'm tired of being laughed at as a jungler early game, please give us some respect/dignity back.

Right now junglers absolutely must complete their jungle item asap early game, delaying essential items like boots. this is what causes some junglers from not being as viable, like skarner for example. or even hecarim which would benefit a lot from getting boots early. Its also good if you're your team's front line and need to be able to plan how you wish to build.

Example Runic echoes is great on both skarner and hecarim, udyr etc. I'd like to buy in this order: (tier 2 boots of choice) etc these junglers synergize well with runic echos. same for tank gragas with runic echoes. Let him decide when he wishes to complete runic echoes.

This is a great build on skarner: Currently I'm already obligated to get boots and jungle item early. this leaves me super squishy early game, my team expects a front line and I can't provide it. Sure you can say just build differently. But that leaves us with pretty bland build choices.

taxing in this game is not fun when it gets in the way of you trying to fulfil your role. another idea is to have tier 2 boots with just 45ms no additional stats that you have to sell if you want other boots. Its handy if you need the ms early to keep up with players with tier 2. You'll be set back a bit of gold for doing so but at least you can focus on completing items that help you perform your job. Could also upgrade them perhaps to say mercs, tabis etc for an addional fee, say 150 gold. a bit like when you want to switch from .

Another thing is as a jungle the option to switch between , being able to sit on these items longer will give you time to decide which you'll need come the time to complete you're jungle item. Actually making the ability to switch be used. When's the last time anyone used that feature.

Also handy if you don't think you'll need merc treads much early game. Paying for tenacity upfront when most of the time you aren't team fighting may not be that alluring a buy.
Or say you're facing a low cc team that consists mostly of ap champs (vlad top corki mid, elise jungle), and don't need mercs. but getting tabis would be stupid since that armor wouldn't come in much use early.

the inverse applies as well, be it to get tank items first and damage later or damage item first and tank later. Sometime I want say cinderhulk but prefer completing triforce first. example jungle needs the utility that triforce has to offer. if he could sit on then get then finally complete it would be so much better for him. Makes sense to get cinderhulk late too as it scales with hp.