The Season 5 Jungle doesn't feel fun
It may just be me and a handful of other people, but I am slowly being discouraged from playing Jungle, after having enjoyed it for the past two years. I used to feel good about killing the Wraiths and being healthy enough to assist my team, but now, even trying to kill the Chicken equivalents forces me to recall just so I do not face the humiliation of an "Executed." But even then, I feel like I am not making much of an impact for my team, which is why I loved Jungling. This current season has so many obstacles for Jungling that it doesn't feel rewarding for me to play it.
I'd like to talk about the creep camps. They currently beat the crap out of any champion who have no sufficient way of healing themselves, which is one of the main reasons why Warwick and Fiddlesticks became extremely strong during Preseason. After taking my third camp, I am left with very little health unless I am adopting Runes/Mastery setup of Spell Vamp with AP Junglers like Sejuani. At that point, I usually have to recall and buy my Jungle Item. By then, my lane teammates are halfway to Level 4 while I have just reached Level 3. I am playing catch-up from the start of the game.
What makes it worse for me is how I feel like I'm not getting enough experience. Even if I gank and successfully nab 4+ kills for my team, I am still usually underleveled compared with the rest of my team. Also, the Jungle creeps also do not provide sufficient experience for the amount of damage they deal to me, and that is why many people who wrote Jungling guides advised avoiding the Wight camp due to the amount of damage it dealt for the lack of experience it offered. This is how I feel about the Season 5 Jungle right now as I take a crapton of damage to the point where I cannot afford to gank. However, even if I do gank and secure kills, I do not receive enough experience for the amount of time that I could have used to get experience from the Jungle. Stonewall008 has posted a video with Preseason 5 Jungling where he, as Trundle (literally trolling), secured 80% of his team's kills but still fell 3 levels short of the two solo laners.
The only way of which I know to stay on par with everyone else on the team is to farm as much as possible, seeing that many Junglers can get to level 5 at the 5:30 mark. Consequentially, if Junglers need to farm to stay ahead in levels, that means their ganking potential will be hindered, and ganking is what defined the role of the Jungler. I just want to see more rewards for the different styles of Jungling. As of now, I don't feel Jungling is rewarding enough for the amount of difficulty in just surviving the Jungle creeps.
I can clear the whole jungle in one go. Im super duper low but I can do it. If you cant clear your first jungle just take your red/blue and the 2 camps respectively wolfs/gromp, raptors,golems. Then just go back buy as much hp potions as you need and get
. This item is useful on ANYONE its meant for bad junglers (tanks, ap) or just any jungler that wants a quick buff then you can go straight to ganking. If you want to get good at this new jungle forget about every other smite item other than