Every jungler is used throughout the elos, including some of the unconventional ones such as Malzahar or Talon.
This does not mean they are good.
Let alone that no, "playing safely" does not apply for all junglers.
If you are facing against Vi, you realize she can slam into you very close to your turret.
Or Lee Sin can actually dive you under your turret with little to no health loss due to his mobility and ult.
You also know some champions such as Jarvan can gank you from behind the jungle camp more easily, same for Rek'sai and a few others.
Facing a naut is different from other junglers, you cannot suggest they are the same when the tools are different.
You are a person attempting to argue Nautilus doesn't have great ganks, are just jerking off the popular junglers right now, that is all you are doing. 3 CC's is more then 1 slow that requires him to be right next to them, a brief and weak slow. Hitting him twice with E is a problem because their is a brief delay between when you can hit, and only a short distance a laner has to go for safety.
Vi's knockback works as a gap closer as well and is much better then Lee Sin's gank. And if J4 were for some stupid reason try jumping over the wall he just lost his E + Q to gank at all.
He has two gap closers, and one of the best damage rotations in the game, and while he has 1 form of CC pre-6, there aren't many junglers with more than 1 form of CC before it.
Look at Vi, one of the most prominent junglers this season, but only 1 form of CC until level 6.
Nautilus has 3 Pre 6, Trundle has 2, J4 has 2, Fiddlesticks has 2, Maokai has 3, Rammus has 2, Volibear has 2, Xin Zhao has 2, Zac has 2.
Vi's gap closing knockback is far better then a slow he has to apply a second time to get, and as I said about their is a delay between presses and a short time it takes to get back to the turret.
Oh my god...hitting E twice...so hard.
You do realize once he lands his E, you can just press E for the slw immediately right?
Let alone that his safeguard lets him gap close immediately without using his Q.
Or the fact he can usehis Q to gap close anyway.
Lee Sin dominates for several seasons because he excels at nearly every aspect of jungling.
He has
Early game damage. It is higher than Rek'sai, Vi, and Jarvan.
Mobility. Only one's that can beat him at it use global abilities such as Pantheon or Rek'sai, but the CD on his abilities are extremely short.
Utility. He has a lot of it. Jarvan may have a trap through his ult, but you can escape it rather easily in this mta. Lee Sin can absolutely displace a champ from their team.
Sustain. He can easily gank at level 3.
Lee Sin doesn't dominate the meta because he is a generalist with no weakness. You could argue it for say...Jarvan, or even Vi if you so cared.
It is because he has every single tool a jungler can desire with no drawback.
I don't give a shit about what he can do? This entire forum is convinced he can do every single thing possible in this game better then everyone else and that is just fucking retarded.
Um... no he isn't.
Warwick was tated to be getting a rework a year ago, but if you look at the champ update list, Warwick isn't anywhere there right now.
Warwick originally did excellent in the new jungle.
Sure he needed to farm til 6, but he was able to make use of the new devourer.
Then they gutted him entirely.
Lowered his AS steroid duration.
Lowered the bas damage of his ult and increased its CD.
Warwick could compete for a bit, now he cannot.
Let alone a champion getting a rework should not mean they should remain invalid.
Lee Sin is supposed to be getting a rework.
*Was on the list, and now I have something to get pissed off about. Excellent and sustain are not the same thing, yes he can clear the jungler slowly but healthy, but so can most junglers that upgrade the machete, WW deals single target damage, and weak early damage, he clears slowly. I know this, He was my number 1 pick in Season 4, he doesn't clear fast, he can't counter jungle, he can't gank pre 6, and thanks to his gutting, his Ult is on a 2 minute cooldown with less base damage, making him incredibly shitty at ganking now. He remains invalid because he IS still an old champion that never really fits the meta properly.
Not necessarily, because Chilling smite's range allowed you to smite them, and allow you to catch up in the event it was a champion such as Leblanc, Ahri, Zed, character's who are capable of blinking through walls.
Yes, Hecarim can do an over the wall gank, but he requires his ult to pull it off and this does not work very well against high mobility champs.
Particularly in bottom lane where you must deal with champions with mobility such as Kallista, or high CC supports such as Leona.
Chilling smite gave him another tool to keep up with the likes of Lee SIn, and whether you wish to admit or not, its still a nerf
I never said it wasn't a nerf, I am basically saying people are morons who think junglers weren't doing fine with ganks before the item even existed, I also said in order to gank as hecarim you get up close to them anyway putting you in range of it. Ahri can't blink through walls. Just wait for Zed to waste his W, Le Blanc is Le Blanc. Kalista is bullshit.
Your not really stating large compelling reasons you nitpicking little bits to help justify it, 150 range is miniscule, and no one would have noticed if they didn't put it in the patch notes.