The problem with Jungle
You have to fullfill 3 niches to be viable in the jungle right now.
A) You need to have good aoe for clears. If you dont have AOE in your kit, you literally cannot jungle because of ONE FUCKING CAMP. The damage the raptor camp does really needs to be dispersed throughout the other camps, because this camp single handedly makes champions like Xin Zhao unplayable.
B) You need to be able to gank. Because of the long respawn timers on camps, Riot has made afk farming your jungle no longer viable. You have alot of downtime now, so wtf do they expect you to do? Do they really expect
to buy a sightstone and be a ward bot? Of course not, shes going to go to a lane and murder them because SHE LITERALLY CANNOT FARM ANYTHING.
C) You need to be a strong duelist. Because of the fact you have to gank, so does the enemy jungler. Obviously, youre bound to run into each other. If you were to pick something like
and the enemy is
and he counter ganks you, youre probably gonna lose. Also because your jungle has more downtime, it makes counterjungling even more attractive. And because the viable junglers are duelists, it makes them (typically) very snowbally, which is part of the reason junglers feel so overpowered at the moment.