User blog comment:Gen Nakazora/Meta, Wolves, and Flash/@comment-6003864-20130417150153

The health meta has pretty much bottomed out. Armor and MR have become much more prevalent and equally as good. Smiteless jungling and wolves first is just standard for jungling nowdays. You  wouldn't start with little golems and then go to red would you? You COULD, but people dont because statistically and strategically it's unsound. Taking wolves first ensures gold efficiency and, especially if you have help, a significant lead on the lane gold/exp numbers. Going smiteless Blue is great because it lets you go immediately to red after wolves/blue if you so desire, although I still take wraiths if I go smiteless simply out of exp preference. However, again it's just a standard that's been shown to help jungling in most cases. If you have a different approach, then power to you. Real, sportsmanlike players will not flame you for doing something different. The same goes for flash. The deep-seated problem is misinformed and ignorant players who don't understand that flash is an option, just like every other spell. Sure, it has some of the best potential to help you in a lot of situations, but it's just one option. I ALWAYS look to see if the character I'm playing has a blink or an escape (Shen, Sejuani, Fizz, and Kat in addition to the ones listed below). If they do, I don't necessarily need to take flash unless I'm 1) trying out a new champ and want to play very safe, 2) playing a low-health build and again, want to be extra safe. Most of my top laners run teleport + ignite/exhaust, and when I jungle Sej I usually take teleport in addition to smite (sometimes if I Nunu jungle I'll take ignite+exhaust just to scare the crap out of people haha)