Between armor nerfs, upcoming Devourer nerfs, and Cinderhulk nerfs, and the fact that Lee Sin and Vi are starting to get picked up again, I don't really understand why the 5 AD really needs to be brought back onto it. It's still an insanely cost-efficient item on Live and I still see junglers pick it up.
Of course Riot has all the data so I'd like to hear what they have to say.
They should've buffed the Armor Pen.
Still gives AD Junglers exactly what they want: a strong early to mid game power spike item, while still causing them to fall off hard come late game no matter what their AD scaling.
Probably doesn't give enough Early game oomph. Nerfing Cinderhulk and Devourer really does not change that. Cinderhulk got it's power shifted towards the mid game to be less of a competitor from late game power from Devourer. And Devourer is getting it's stand alone power shaved so it needs to be more item reliant.
And none of that helps Warrior remain competitive, if Warrior based Champions can't do their job at being early aggressors.
