Season 5's Version Of Feral Flare

Jungle Itemization Jungle itemization has been overhauled – all existing jungle items have been removed. Hunter’s Machete

1. Hunter’s Machete now grants 30 magic damage on hit over 2 seconds and grants 8 health and 2 Mana per second while fighting monsters.
2. Hunter’s Machete can only be bought if you have Smite as a Summoner Spell. Upgrades Hunter’s Machete now upgrades into 4 items that amplify or change your Smite ability – depending on what overarching Jungle Strategy you want to do: Gank, Invade, Fast Clear, or Counterjungle

Stalker’s Blade

1. After killing 3 monsters, you can smite Teemo enemy champions, dealing a small amount of true damage and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds.

Poacher’s Knife

1. Upgrade Smite to Quick Smite. Quick Smite has reduced cooldown – has further reduced cooldown when you kill large monsters and grants bonus gold if you use it on the monsters in the enemy jungle.

Skirmisher’s Saber

1. Upgrades Smite to Challenging Smite. Challenging Smite can be cast on an enemy champion – doing no true damage but revealing them for a long time and causing your attacks to deal bonus true damage each time you hit him.

Ranger’s Trailblazer

1. Upgrades Smite to Desolating Smite – which causes Smite to deal 50% splash damage to other nearby monsters as well as stun them for 1.5 seconds.

MOAR UPGRADES

The 4 above items can be enchanted with 4 enchantments that offer bonus statistics so you can customize the item based on what kind of role you want your jungler to transition to

Enchantment: Warrior

• Grants AD and Life Steal

Enchantment: Magus

• Grants AP and CDR

Enchantment: Juggernaut

• Grants Health, CDR and Movement Speed

Enchantment: Slayer

• Grants AS, CDR and a stacking AS buff

I'll begin by using an example champ who made great use of Feral Flare this season.

Feral Flare put Yi on the spotlight in season 4 jungle.

It seems to me that Flare would be best emulated via Machete > Poacher/Ranger > Slayer Enchantment.

It's the same idea. Speed up jungle clear, farm till you can get that attack speed. Though, some attack damage seems to be lost in this equation.

What do you think?

For Champs like Yi who utilize Flare, I'm debating Stalker for the R + Smite combo for the slow and ganks, Skirmisher for the same combo, but more true damage proc in fights, or the Poacher/Ranger for clear time and farm (depending on the unspecified values of these items).

I'd assume that the Slayer Enchantment would be his best bet for the AS + CDR But, ultimately, i'm wondering if Yi will be viable at all for season 5.

My best bet would be to take Hunter's Machete -> either Poacher or Ranger (depending on which would give faster cleartime) -> Slayer Enchantment to replicate the similar farm-early-wreck-later playstyle Yi offers.