I refuse to play jungle until it is fixed
From where I'm sitting, the only "strategic options" you have in the jungle, if you're playing ANYONE that isn't Lee Sin/WW/Whoever else is OP atm, is "do I take one camp and try to gank at half health? or do I clear one side of my jungle and back, and pray that my other side is still there?"
Just my experience, but that's HARDLY strategic diversity.
If you want my opinion on what would create better strategic diversity, it would be the following:
- soften up the jungle so you don't have to be a sustain god to get through it
- REMOVE the bloody jungle items
- stop endorsing the jungler as a "meta" role, when you do this as a company (lookin' at you Riot) it makes it REALLY hard to try new things.
- balance the champions against OTHER CHAMPIONS, and not "how well they gank from the jungle, how well they clear the jungle" etc.
- be done with all this bullshit jungle "strategic diversity" business.
If you want to give the smaller camps buffs for smiting them? That's fine; THAT, adds strategic diversity. Making the jungle hit so hard that I can't even clear it on my first go? Why not just remove the jungle from the game and push everyone into the lane? At least then we wouldn't have to hear about the "LEE SIN OP WHY NO NERF RITO???" anymore.
/rant
I'm done jungling until this is addressed and fixed.
. You may say 'Oh, they were played last season' yes, they were, but they are much more viable in the new jungle.