Talk:Shyvana/@comment-15280970-20150715233101/@comment-26001789-20150716042602

Because Jungler were always expected to do one thing and one thing only back in Season 3: Gank and Snowball Lanes.

Junglers in Season 2 were only mobile supports. They only purpose was to ward and protect laners while generating gold from GP/5 items and generally were CC machines designed to protect and control, no to kill, destroy and more, like Season 3 onwards showed us. This is because Riot wanted to eliminate the Jungle role in Season 2 after the debacles of Season 1 Jungle, but instead of killing it, they embraced it and tried to balance a Role that could change the outcome of the game.

Laners are usually the ones who abuse the Jungle Items, perfectly balanced(most of the time) items and get them nerfed to the ground where only certain Junglers ever use it. Take this for example: If Laners already are viable with laning items, using Jungle items to boost themselves only serves to exentuate their prowess and when these items are nerfed, this characters would still be viable, while Junglers that use this item for viability would simply dissapear and besides, Devourer is generally a sucky item unless your character has some form on hit effect and you build appropietly