Why the new jungle is harder
There are a lot of people complaining about how hard the new jungle is, saying "junglers can't get ahead" or "only sustain junglers are good" or "razorbeaks killed me". While I do have to agree that Rito went a little too ham on the razorbeaks, let's think about what it means to have a harder jungle.
First off, it deters laners from stealing jungle farm to do some gimmicky strat for xp. Coming into lane lvl 2 simply because you're on blue side isn't fair.
Next it does increase diversity. Compare Warwick to Evelynn in last season. If she so wanted, Eve could stay in the jungle farming all game because she had enough sustain to do so. However, she is much better suited for walking into a lane and ruining her enemies' days. Meanwhile, Warwick, whose only strength was sustain and a 1.5 second lockdown, could also farm in the jungle all game if he chooses. But his ganks without an ultimate were poor compared to Eve's. No gap closers, no speed steroids, no cc, no damage steroids, no resistance debuffs, nothing. Either come in with an ult or just go back to the jung, because you're relying on your laner to set up the kill and if it's that easy for them to do so, then why do they need you? Why use sustain junglers in the first place if literally anyone can farm the jungle? Fast forward to this preseason. Warwick still has ridiculous sustain. You can literally spend the entire game in the jungle, and maybe you'll use both of those health pots. Meanwhile Eve was so weak she was singled out for an armor buff. Why is this? Because she's not meant to be a sustain jungler. Now, the Warwicks and Udyrs and Aatroxes and Fiddlestickses and... you know, all of them, are singled out because of their ability to do one simple thing: farm. Now what about the Eves and the Elises and the Akalis and the Kha'zi- wait, why are you jungling Akali? GG, ff @ 20, report Akali for trolling. Anyway, junglers such as them are now forced to do what they did best: gank. Now sure, they need to farm as well, and they can. Wolves, Gromp, and buffs are all pretty easy, and that scuttler is a tasty snack. And eventually you'll be able to kill doubles and razorbeaks by yourself. But the simple fact of the matter is a champ shouldn't be able to sustain infinitely in the jungle and still gank well. With the new jungle, it separates gankers from farmers.
To further that point, look at the new items. You've got two choices: if you're a farming jungler, you can focus on farming your side
or farming their side
. If you're a ganking jungler, you can either stick to enemies more easily
or do more damage to them
. Then there's the upgrades which are basically like last season: feral flare
, SotAG
, SotEL
, and SotSW
.
The only real problem I see with the new jungle is noobs. Until you hit lvl 20 and get full rune pages the jungle will be hard as hell. Thankfully most of the jungle stuff is in the first couple of rows in masteries so you should be good by the time people start using junglers.
Anyway, thoughts? Additions? Contradictions?

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as like my 3 or 4th item, now you can't do that anymore because your shield doesn't scale off ap. But not only that the values were lowered too