Does the Jungle change confirm that Riot designates multiple teams to one patch without coms?
With everybody talking about the jungle changes, there is a harsher underlining problem that for some of us that play a certain class of junglers. I'm of course talking about AP assassins
Now of course honestly in today's meta, when people think of strong carry junglers, we think Kha Zix, Graves, Rengar, Xin Zhao, Warwick and even AD Shaco. Because of this Riot i'm sure wanted to forge a way to get the clique AP junglers back into the meta. When i read the notes from Riot, they only really tunnel visioned champions like, Amumu and Fiddlesticks and well... that's it. Those are your stereclasotypical mages that don't require the most important thing every other AP based jungler uses... MOVEMENT SPEED!
Elise, Evelynn, Diana, Ekko, Fizz, Nidalee. Even Champions like Hecarim, Sej, Chogath and Ivern, they all need Movement speed, evidently by why Wisp was a first buy, because it provided that core stat and it built into their first core item, their jungle item.
Quite ironically after this patch, Certainly in high Elo, the most viable of Jungle mages; Elise, Evelynn, have all lost out on this whilst the other mages still are being out staged by the AD junglers. Which brings onto that more important factor that they just didn't think about. It's not that AP junglers are terrible, it's that AD junglers are much STRONGER!.. Oh, and Mundo and Gravess exist, that's a thing to.
Movement speed on a ganking role is imperative and forcing building Lich Bane, as good as it may be, right after your jungle item, is completely interactive.
Riot changed the jungle to make junglers less impactful early game, and then they separately ruined an item on the weakest class in said jungle, creating a much harsher nerf on certain champions that already we're becoming less and less viable. Don't even begin to start me on what's going to happen to the likes of Yi, Udyr Trynd, Xin Zhao when the AD items get released.
Riot, you cannot have separate teams trying to balance multiple things without such communication because you end up having no idea what the end result will be and if you need to do it. Runic echoes NEEDS to be reverted back to it's original build pre-patch. Otherwise you won't see a single mage in the jungle for a long, long, long time.