The jungle got hard nerfed to a point where their only goal is to get some drakes. As a toplaner I noticed that ganking top doesn't exist anymore, since there is no reason to, so just spam darius and you'll win most of the time because they rly can't 2v1 you anymore. Early game junglers have a gigantic advantage because they can then secure drakes and thus a win.
With the few games I've played recently (I've been addicted to ARAM, so take this lightly), I find that it's actually bad bot lanes that lose games. If that lane feed/int, there's going to be no control over the dragon area. You can have the stronger jungler, but they likely won't win 1v3s (fed bot and the enemy jg) for the dragons.
It would be a different story if the winning jungler is the solo-the-dragon type, but if your support feeds 4 kills to the ADC in the first 5 minutes, then they wil be the REAL dragon for the jungler to deal with.
Jungle wasn't 'hard nerfed' its just a farm jg meta like when there was shit like sated devourer
But i do agree whoever has dragon control can easily win the game unless they throw
Actually a bad botlane solo loses the game, even if jungle is a little behind a good botlane makes up for it butb B if jungle is stomping and your lucian thresh bot is 1-8 then you prob cant win those drake fights anyway
easy to sneak dragons if you're smart about vision blind spots, and track the enemy jungler.
e.g. if the enemy jungler just took the crab at dragon (and has vision in that middle spot), you can use a gap closer/blast cone over the wall and kill the dragon from inside the pit which will not be warded since it's already "crabbed". I've done that on Yi/Shyvana multiple times while having feeding lanes and the enemy never expects it. If the crab is down (and usually along with his bot side camps), the enemy jungler usually doesn't have a reason to be bot side. You do however, need to be a jungler that can solo dragon quite fast, and have some way to avoid wards without alerting the enemy (I Shyvana ult over if there's no blast cone, and on one occasion I've flashed over on Yi).
same applies for herald.
And with top and mid having the most say in the game due to level, they will solo win or lose the game.
