New Jungle comentary (Summoner's Rift)
I have played this game for many years, since season 1 and I just want to voice my opinion about the new Summoners Rift... This new rift looks great, everything in it i love, I love all the little easter eggs and every little detail in it. Riot clearly took time making this, but this new jungle is another story.
To start off one of my biggest complaints is that this new jungle makes only a select few champions even somewhat viable in the jungle. And my main, Evelynn is just too crappy to play in this new jungle. You need a heal or some type of shield in order to jungle now. I have played Evelynn over 1000 games and I love playing her, but now all of the sudden I can't play her if I want to actually have a chance in jungle.
My 2nd complaint is that farming jungle does not give you the amount of experience to a solo laner. Since when I jungle I typically solo jungle why I should get 6 the same level as my mid laner if all we were doing was farming.
Ok, the rift scutler... this thing is a noob trap. It wastes so much time and doesn't give you anything, 50 gold if you are jungle and only 30 experience? Just because it doesn't attack back doesn't mean that you shouldn't get a little something from it, and yes I do like how it gives you a ward in river, that part is cool, just the length it takes you to do it and for what it gives it's useless.
Another thing is that the durability of the jungle monsters are a little too high in my opinion, starting gromp has 1600 hp, that is more than a whole wave of minions off the bat combined. I think they should be a little less durable then what they are now.
And lastly the jungle camps attack damage is a little too high, I watched the OGN a week ago and 2 korean pro junglers actually died to gromp because he does chunks of damage, yes he attacks kinda slow but the damage eats people. Whenever I jungle I stay clear of raptors especially unless I need to smite it because the minions do a combined damage total of the big raptor, which means you are basically taking to big hits every time all four of them hit.
All in all I think that Riot should really sit down and try to make the jungle more fun and a little less frustrating for all the junglers, as well as the new players that want to start jungling.