Video on jungling role weakness by Akaadian and Tarzaned
Recently Tarzaned (last season's Rank 1 jungler) and Akaadian (Pro from Echo Fox) teamed up to discuss the jungle role's weakness currently (A sentiment many junglers currently share unless they play Lee Sin or Ivern). Here is that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAcw3_jF2w
And here is another well known jungler essentially quitting league due to frustration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amtu6QPvZS4&t=100s
If you watch IWDominate's youtube video and streams, there are constant references to how weak the jungle role is currently.
In fact, the only well known junglers who aren't complaining are the ones who are constantly smurfing.
Attention needs to be brought to this issue and changes have to be made. We've been waiting for 4 months for the balance team to actually do some balancing and have yet to see a change to the role that hasn't accomplished something other than making the role almost entirely linear, under farmed, under leveled, less varied, and ultimately less likely to be able to affect the outcome of games. Jungler's essentially have the same access to gold and xp that supports do which is probably why Ivern is so strong. When having a second support on the team (Ivern) is stronger than having a carry/tank jungler, you know the role has lost any semblance of influence on the game's outcome.