This is the most unfun patch since Feral Flare

And I'm not just saying that as a jungle main. Every damn time you do this, you completely wreck solo queue. Stop messing with the jungle, what is your problem with roaming gank support being the optimal jungle strategy. These stupid items that are more powerful than normal items and half the cost... The smites that are more effective combat spells on WAY shorter cooldowns than their equivalents.

Stop.

Just stop.

Stop making new fucking Jungle items.

The benefit of building a jungle item should be THAT YOU GET TO BE A JUNGLER. You are opening a 4th lane of income up to the team by taking smite and you get to take champs who are really good FOR THE TEAM but maybe not so great 1v1. Maybe they're hyper mobile but have kind of meh damage and initiation, so they can roam around the mid game and ward everything, maybe they have super powerful initiation but they have very lackluster damage. All these champs who are very very fun and satisfying to play but have no place in the 3 lanes. These should be your junglers. Why do we need fucking kayle jungle and fizz jungle and karthus jungle and master yi fucking anything. If you want to play a solo carry, put them in the mid lane. That's what the damn mid lane is for. Get it out of my damn jungle. Stop encouraging this behavior with your stupid items. NO. No more stupid items, no more stupid options, if you want to be a jungler and you want help, you buy THE JUNGLE ITEM. That's it! Nothing else! If your champ sucks at making use of the jungle item MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY IT IN THE JUNGLE!

You don't take smite into the lane because smite is LITERALLY ONLY FOR JUNGLING. It should only be able to target neutral camps. If you want to dick with smite, focus it around neutral camp clears. No lane minions, no champs, ONLY NEUTRALS. Smite is what you should have to take if you're going to jungle and be effective.

Scaling jungle items are cancer FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. Every time I have one on my team, I have to just sit back and wait and wait and wait until my asshole kayle/xin/yi/shyvana/udyr just bumblefucks around the jungle being utterly ineffectual for the first 20 minutes. I have to PRAY they DON'T gank for me cause they'll probably just feed. Then whenever they're on the enemy team, the entire game becomes a ticking clock. Cause as soon as they get some tank items on them they'll be completely indestructible and also have enough damage to to 1v3 anyone on my team.

The game always ends in 1 way. It's a fucking one sided stomp fest that leaves the losing team ragging at eachother and the winning team flaccid and unfulfilled.

How is that a fun interaction.

For ANYONE INVOLVED?!

Stop it!

Stop.

Give me back my godamn spirit stone. I haven't talked to a single person about this who isn't INCREDIBLY NOSTALGIC for the spirit stone. That was probably the best item you ever came up with. We've experimented with this new fangled Jungle Item Bullshit now and quite a large number I'm sure agree that we LOATHE it and we want it to be dead.