If you weren't around for season 1 jungle you probably won't understand a word my last post meant. lol
Season 1 jungle was basically equivalent to a solo lane in terms of farm and exp if not slightly better depending on what jungler you were playing. This made it optional to either farm or gank to a certain point. Riot didn't like this so they severely nerfed it and by severe i mean gutted with season 2 changes something to do with junglers getting gold and levels for free, and they also wanted more variety of junglers. Season 2 was all about support tanky junglers (maokai amumu) while season 3 is all about early game ganking dominate junglers (xin, j4). It's kinda boring if you ask me. It's not that it's bad as much as the role is kinda boring compared to the last 2 seasons.
After watching some of the LCS i feel this game is going to devolve into which ever team can split push the most. This game really needs some backdoor protection like dota 2 has.
Edit: I should also mention that in season 1 it was all about counter jungling, meaning you got rewarded a lot for stealing the small camps a whole hell of a lot more than you do now. The counter jungling meta was very fun as a jungler.
Season 1 jungle was basically equivalent to a solo lane in terms of farm and exp if not slightly better depending on what jungler you were playing. This made it optional to either farm or gank to a certain point. Riot didn't like this so they severely nerfed it and by severe i mean gutted with season 2 changes something to do with junglers getting gold and levels for free, and they also wanted more variety of junglers. Season 2 was all about support tanky junglers (maokai amumu) while season 3 is all about early game ganking dominate junglers (xin, j4). It's kinda boring if you ask me. It's not that it's bad as much as the role is kinda boring compared to the last 2 seasons.
After watching some of the LCS i feel this game is going to devolve into which ever team can split push the most. This game really needs some backdoor protection like dota 2 has.
Edit: I should also mention that in season 1 it was all about counter jungling, meaning you got rewarded a lot for stealing the small camps a whole hell of a lot more than you do now. The counter jungling meta was very fun as a jungler.