Junglers should have more gold REGARDLESS of Scuttle. Hear me out.

In the first five minutes of the game, backing as a jungler is a really, really big deal. If you haven't cleared your jungle yet you could clear, or you could try to help win a lane or obviously you could scuttle which for some reason wins you the game now. At least this latest patch did get one thing right: junglers can't gank lanes at a higher level than the laners themselves anymore.

What 8.10 DIDN'T fix, however, was that the losing jungler isn't just 'less impactful'; they get left in the dust for the remainder of the game. It becomes a 4v5 when one jungler loses to the other, which due to the current Scuttles now happens almost immediately. Dueling over these dumb crabs as jungler has become more important than everything else as not only are they worth near 150 gold but these dumb objectives offer a TON of exp as well. This causes the jungler that claims them all to drastically snowball and the other to either try and get kills just to keep up or to rot and become a feeding machine.

Junglers should be getting more gold regardless of who's ahead, as that will easily make them feel more impactful later on in the game regardless of everything but without the current gold or exp that Scuttle provides which is so obscene. They deserve to finish meaningful items like everyone else without getting killstreaks or "winning jungle" 3 minutes in. Being behind or even neutral with no kills as jungler feels awful as your gold gets you nowhere toward meaningful items and let's be real: the jungler items haven't been actual impactful items for a LONG time. They all deserve more oomph, and should help junglers have more impact later in the game rather than junglers being designed to ruin the game before then. Dominating the enemy jungler should not be a requirement to effectively jungle, nor should having some sort of degenerate Scuttle Monopoly. Every jungler deserves their fair share of opportunity, duelist or no, and their fate should never be decided a few minutes in.

TL;DR: 1.) Scuttles should give much less gold and exp as contesting Scuttle ruins games extremely quickly

2.) Other jungle creeps should provide significantly more gold as junglers are freakin' poor and it makes backing without getting a kill or a Scuttleopoly first pointless

3.) Jungle items deserve to be significantly more impactful; they can cost a little more to compensate but they should deserve their first-buy status as they are all currently very underwhelming