JUNGLER TOO MUCH INFLUENCE IN GAME
This is going to be a long post...
It's frustrating at the moment with junglers simply able to determine lanes regardless of laner performance.
I am not talking about just ganks but also the general understanding of the game. For example, our jungler last game went to red at 7 min mark for 2nd buff clear and died to enemy jungle and mid laner camping in the brush (i pinged). The right thing to do would have been: first, notice that enemy jungle is missing, then notice that mid is missing, then realize the possibility of enemy roaming in our jungle. He should have put a ward at the camp and gone to do a different camp if he knows that he can't fight or escape the potential skirmish.
This wouldn't happen in a higher elo. It's a very obvious move just like the 3 minute gank, or cheesy gank after first buff, etc. But the fact that junglers on both teams take these risky plays allow them to basically determine the outcome of game, for better or worse.
They also don't really control vision either. Deep wards are needed to spot enemy jungle clear paths to plan ganks, counter jungle, counter ganks, and also help laners position better and make plays. Deep wards are good for aggressive junglers. Defensive wards are required to spot roaming laners. Junglers these days rather get mad when laners perform poorly due to lack of vision (denied all in kill opportunities and left to suffer by losing out cs).
Playing in the lower elo (gold-plat), players don't understand how to jungle. All they know is to gank and grab kills. Simply lack so much game knowledge it's actually quite sad. In previous seasons if you didn't know the game you simply weren't able to climb.
I prefer to have junglers weaker than laners at all points in game so that they rather play a supportive role than a carry role. They shouldn't be able to out level and out farm laners (I mean wtf is this level 2 after first buff before laners haven't even touch a minion yet, then krugs for level 3??).
The mindset of junglers right now? Get the first few levels and casually gank. Don't even care about anything else (lane dynamics, summoner spells, starting items, runes, don't care about anything. Just gank any lane any time). Just farm gank farm gank and repeat. Very mechanical. Ganks are so strong right now, they don't even have to do safe ganks (for example lane ganks) to secure kills. They just clear vision, and/or walk in to hurt laner (use pots, burn summoner spells) just because they can. Then they just do that again after doing 1 camp and smiting to full hp (or eating hp plants or killing river crab). Champions like hecarim, shyvana, lee sin, khazix, these meta junglers just come and smash laners. Jump in, do damage, walk out. Rinse and repeat until laners break and their team snowballs. There is no outplay, they know they can't die (new shield mastery) or do a ton of damage just by outleveling and using mobility, then regenerating hp in the jungle.
ADC's don't even matter in the game. Other laners/jungle just destroy ADC in seconds because they have snowballed so much before ADC becomes relevant.
The state of the game is just so stupid. It's just so retarded I can't believe Riot patched the game to this state... Didn't fix it into the new season.