The Meta Has Changed Pretty Drastically In The Month I Didn't Play
Who has the better bot lane no longer seem to matter as it is more who has the worse jungler (yes, worse, not better). I've had bot lanes ahead, but like 4/12 junglers (or worse) nearly every game. The jungler just decides the games, which I thought was what Rito was trying to tone down?
No level 3 ganks, instead lvl 2 ganks. Way MORE ganks as farming just isn't the optimal way to jungle (and just puts your laners at a huge disadvantage). If a jungler doesn't have good vision then they basically just screwed themselves and their team because you basically need to counter jungle or constantly gank because spawn times feel bad (30 minutes with junglers having 9 vision score in multiple games). Before the laners could win lane and be strong enough, but you just lose even earlier if your jungler doesn't just go kill the enemy jungler or camp a lane.
I can't imagine this is all that fun for the junglers, but unless you are top lane you are gonna see the jungler every few seconds it feels like and it feels bad. Whoever has the better early game jungler/jungling wins as 25 minutes is the new late game and that feels really bad.
Especially feels bad in scrub land down here when you get those autofilled junglers and that is pretty much a guaranteed loss for your team when everyone is bad so you are already balancing on the edge from the start.