Please Don't Reimpliment the Jungle XP Penalty

I saw in Meddler's 6/14 Gameplay Thoughts that Riot was thinking about reintroducing the overlevelled xp penalty that was removed in 8.10, but I have to ask that we avoid this if at all possible. When the jungle "rework" was released on 8.10 the only silver lining was the removal of this penalty.

While I hated to see lane influence for the role decrease on 8.10, I do think that there was very little opportunity cost to ganking, which has been improved. In fact I think that leads in the jungle feel more impactful now then on 8.9. I remember watching Meteos play when 8.10 dropped and he concluded that it was nearly impossible to come back in XP when down in the jungle. It actually feels like stealing a camp or out rotating the enemy jungler nets a value.

I understand that gold funneling is an issue, but I think the role has seen enough recent nerfs. As a jungler, my lane influence is already decreased, please dont take away my ability to maintain a lead on the enemy jungler.

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