How does everyone feel about the Rift Scuttlers?
Currently they count as the only "large" jungle minions that don't give a bonus when you smite them. They give a base 50 gold, since they count as "large" they also give +30 bonus gold when you (a jungler) kill them.
Personally I'm unsatisfied. Right now some weaker clearing champs (Ex. Elise) are unable to handle this due to the fact that a strong clearing champ can take both "Rift Scuttlers" in addition to their own jungles in the time slower clear champs can clear their own jungle. This almost out of the gate creates a 160 gold disparity that only increases over time. That's rather huge IMO even if weaker junglers do start snagging some later.
I feel that there are two ways to approach this. One is to make them not count as "large" minions and remove the 30 gold entirely. The other is to switch off the bonus on the jungle item so you don't by default get a bonus 30 gold but switch it on for smite so instead of a "buff" you get 30 bonus gold for smiting the rift scuttlers. I feel like either of these changes would help bring slow clearing junglers more in line with more powerful junglers like Lee Sin without having to rework weaker jungle champions a lot. I also think the "smite for 30 gold" would add another tactical option for junglers in S5.
How does everyone else feel about them in general, from the gold to the speed shrine+vision etc. are you guys happy with the current state of Rift Scuttlers?