Because people missed it.. PLANTS KNOWLEDGE, PLEASE READ!
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/10/red-post-collection-ivern-animations.html <- Source
Hello! I'm that buddy of yours who may not be the best of players, but when it comes to new things coming out I seem to know all about it. Many of you have questions about plants, I am here to assist!
When you enter that link you will see a lot of information, so let me get the part everyone's scared about.
#Meddler popped on the boards to share even more on how plants spawn. **Bunch of details below, bear in mind this stuff's still being worked on though so exact numbers and other details will almost certainly change at least somewhat. **
Each type of plant has a few specified locations per jungle quadrant that it can spawn in and limits on how many plants can be in that area at any one time. Blast Cones for example have 5 possible spawn points per quadrant, one of which happens consistently, the other four of which are occasionally. A quadrant will spawn a Blast Cone around every 3 minutes, and there can't be more than two of them in a quadrant.
First jungle clear is almost entirely pre-set. There's only slight variation in when plants spawn (~10s),so you can rely on plants generally having predictable behavior around the start and ends of clears especially. First generation of plants here spawn between the 1:00 and 2:30 range.
Early game (until around minute 15) plants only appear deeper in the jungle, so that they don't feel like they're having too strong an impact on individual lanes. As the game progresses additional spawn points closer to the lane
Junglers will be the primary champions interacting with plants early to early-mid game, but eventually they'll be things that are occasionally relevant to any member of a team.
#Meddler commented: IMPORTANT INFO! "We've been tuning camp stats as well to account for both the replacement of smite buffs and other changes. We're also putting time aside in 6.23 to **look at any individual junglers that get hit hard by the pre-season changes." **
Meddler also shared a rough map showing various positions for plant spawns: "Dang, nice maps. Those are actually really close overall to what we've been testing recently!** Picture of that below, apologies the individual plant spawns aren't well color coded** http://image.prntscr.com/image/40bd38f249e54ecd801a8c3519fdfec7.jpeg
I took out quite a good bit of information trying to get down to the very important things you guys may be wanting to know about plants.. trying to "Summerize" it for you.
#If you would like to read the whole thing the link is at the top, thank you for reading this, I hope you understand how plants will work a bit better. <3