Plants and Balance; What we know about Plants and why you should/shouldn't complain.
Plants; one of the newest additions shown to be arriving in the jungle. What are plants going to do? The basics are this; plants are new, interact-able, plants scattered throughout the jungle randomly. Plants will spawn at 90-110 second intervals, mostly after 3 minutes, and will spawn at predetermined points for each plant.
The plants are as follow: One plant will drop fruit when attacked, healing whoever touches them for a portion of their missing health. Another plants will reveal enemies, monsters, and wards in a cone. The direction of the cone is the opposite of what side they are attacked from. The final plant will act like a Ziggs W, blasting targets away when hit.
The core behind plants is to have them be reacted to, not planned. Hence why they are not seen on the minimap and have a lot of random intervals. When the RNG Dragons came out, you had to plan accordingly to what dragon it is. Are you a poke comp? You should prioritize that Ocean Drake then. Oh, you have a lot of shove power? Better go for that Mountain Drake before that Blue buff. You planned around the RNG, not just reacted to it. Riot's already said that if they can't make plants work, they'll pull it.
Boards members (Gameplay Boards...) are already complaining about these new plants. Firstly, they're still in testing. Things are subject to change, you aren't about to just get a bunch of broken plants in your game with no testing. If PBE testers (that's right, testers, not a bunch of boards members with no PBE) see problems with the plants, they can give a honest opinion. Seeing a GIF of the plants does not make you an expert on the subject. Now and Pre-Season look like Riot's way of making up for Season 6. I mean, we got Baker Pantheon, Devil Teemo is coming out, and they announced Solo Queue and Sandbox mode! Things for Season 7 are looking up. We may be a bit cynical because some of the new stuff in Season 6 wasn't well received, and we are still going through problem after problem apparently. We started with Zed, then Yasuo, then Caitlyn for a bit I guess(?), and now ranged top laners. After all the crazy balancing just centered around competitive play (Rest in Piece Shen, nerfed before I could learn you) I've been thinking "Season 7 will be better." and how true that appears to be. Now just to pray to the Rito gods for Yasuo and Ekko changes! (Sorry, had to add that. I'm tired of seeing Yasuos every day and Ekko is very annoying to me.) (Oh, and I said changes, not exactly nerfs, so don't bash me Yasuo mains.)