Soul Essence

Let's talk about soul essence.

Riot's basically screwing junglers over by giving only half the soul essence that a lane cannon would give from a large monster. Not to mention that the enemy team's cannon drop soul essence as well.

Let's take a look at the math, shall we?

At ten minutes, 7 cannons would come out from both lanes, making it 14 cannons in total. 14 times 4 is 56 soul essence.

That means, a jungler would literally have to kill 28 large monsters in 10 minutes, plus the time to walk from each large monster to large monster, plus taking the time to gank one or two lanes, to actually keep up with a laner's dark harvest...

Which is kind of weird, since I thought this path was supposedly specifically designed with junglers in mind.

Without even any kills a laner can unlock soul essence at the 30 minute mark, with 168 souls. If he does good and get 10 kills, and 10 assists, or even just there when the enemy champ does dies, that's 288 souls. Plus 80, that's already 368 base damage, plus 25% bonus ad and 20% bonus ap.

Meanwhile the jungler...