Poor Junglers can't get anything nice without laners abusing it - tl;dr included

With Riot paying more attention to the jungle and introducing items such as Cinderhulk and Runeglaive in order to strengthen their jungle buddies and give them more impact in the game, laners have taken notice of the strength of these new items and started using them themselves.

When Cinderhulk first came out tank junglers loved it. %HP bonus AND a built in passive for clear? I think it's safe to say every tank jungler got pretty moist. But they weren't the only ones getting soaked down below. Top laners looked in, hoping to get in on this tankiness and burning damage as well. Eventually, they figured out just how potent going was. It was hard to win trades against them, and objectives such as dragons and barons were that much easier for a team to take. Challenging smite made killing tanks as a carry...quite...challenging. With their damage being reduced as they get chased by or . Don't forget the true damage autos too.

With the introduction of Runeglaive, AP Junglers such as and had a field day. And that's fine. But recently, mid AP Smite has taken the game by storm. has everything a mid laner could want. AP, CDR, and an AOE proc. So they thought "Why not?" I just got out of a game in which I won lane against a mid AP Smite and had a full item over him, but he could still evenly trade with me with . That's just how strong the Runeglaive is, and should only be that strong for the role it was made for - Jungle.

Anyways, rather than nerfing the items, as Riot has done previously with Cinderhulk(It's still being used in lane ¯_(ツ)_/¯), and is probably preparing to do with Runeglaive, changes can be implemented instead, so junglers get all their shiny new toys and laners have to keep their dirty mitts to themselves. The most effective change that can be made is reducing the amount of gold earned from lane minions as someone with smite. This will lower the temptation for a laner to take smite, as their gold intake will be drastically reduced.

But Junglers clear waves later in the game, so wouldn't this hurt them? That's why some time around the twenty five or thirty minute mark (around when laning phase ends), the gold intake is changed back to normal. So and can go about their business as usual as well.

But what if the Jungler has to hold lane or lane themselves if the laner is dced? I'm sure someone smarter than me can figure that out, but until then, tough num nuts. At least it discourages Junglers from over taxing you. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

TL;DR Smite should only be for jungle, gold from lane minions should be reduced during laning phase for those who have it to discourage laners from taking it.