Is Not Wanting To Leash For Your Jungler WRONG?

For the past few seasons leashing the jungler has always been considered a common practice if not "meta".. however as a player who prefers to play top lane this season I find there are many match-ups where hitting level two late can really lose you the lane quickly and others where having a strong push on your opponent can give you a decent edge in lane.

As an example, with Riven I prefer to have a Trundle or enemy Irelia pushed in right from level 1 due to their poor ability to wave clear. Often times in both of these match-ups the lane becomes a struggle if they harass you a lot at level 1 and having that push to reach level 2 and keep them under their tower for a little while helps prevent them from bullying you as much.

When I have to leash for a jungler I find that these match-ups can become incredibly difficult as from my perspective my champion is already at a disadvantage laning vs them to begin with. Due to this I really feel frustrated when a jungler comes top-side and wants me to leash his camp for him. The above examples are two champions aren't even hard counters to Riven. In match-ups where the enemy laner counters it's even worse of a nightmare as a champion like Olaf or Renekton can zone or punish you very hard at level two and it becomes a little difficult to weasel CS without them beating on you or poking you out of lane.

This doesn't only apply to one single champion either, if a champion reaches level two power spike before you then there's good odds that they are also going to reach both their level three and their level six power spike before you as well. Often times especially in competitive play these become huge swingers for the game when you see an Alistar combo'd with a high burst ADC come out to lane and instantly hit level two Flashing in Headbutt / Pulverize combo for the First Blood.

I hope something can be done so that laners can't or don't have to leash for junglers. I don't have many ideas on how this could be worked on however I do think that it would be interesting if jungle mobs were only target-able by champions with Smite for the first five minutes of the game. Having something like this implemented would allow the mobs in the jungle to be nurfed slightly so that not only more champions would be viable in the jungle but also to allow for faster clear of the jungle so that junglers can have more influence with their team which would make up for the lack of a leash early on. Perhaps scaling the jungle mobs up to the time where the jungle mobs would become target-able by all champions.