Junglers need XP
Recently Riot kept giving junglers more gold for clearing camps. A nice addition, since it would take ages to get items. But I still feel useless most of the time. Why is that you may ask? Unless I get some ridicuolus early killing spree, unlikely since early game you are low HP all the time, you wnd up being 2-3 levels below solo laners. Clearing the jungle does not nearly award as much XP as laning.
The only situations in which you will be on a decent XP level is if either you get lots of early kills, which you not always get the chance to do if enemies play conservative, or if you get to hold a lane, which you also may very well not get.
By consequence, you are most of the time, 2-3 levels below when the first teamfights start erupting, and you will get instantly melted instead of locking down carries or carrying yourself.
Basically my problem is that your success depends on situational factors, and the jungling role is very unreliable and weak these days. On top of that, very few junglers are viable after the change. Only bruisers are still around. Tanks are not viable. Assassins are not viable.
Riot, listen to this please. Junglers don't need more gold. Junglers NEED MORE XP from the jungle. Otherwise only very few junglers are viable, and even then not very reliable.
TL;DR Junglers fall behind too easily compared to solo laners unless circumstances are very good. Jungle camps need to award more XP to bring variety in picks and reliability to junglers in general.
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I'm insanely low on Hp constantly and get destroyed by laning Champions or I get lucky and somehow get a kill steal.