User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Smurfs make you play better./@comment-92.14.215.3-20120829035050

... you cannot jungle at level 1, unless someone like Udyr is on free rotation. Even Nunu struggles past the first camp without runes and masteries. Of course they die in the jungle: they are other smurfs who forgot how valuable extra damage, armor, etc, is.

Ditto with laning: you lack bonus damage for CS'ing, and bonus damage on your abilities.

I kinda liked the lack of Flash though. It was refreshing to see every champion as they are. Most obvious in casters, actually: lacking surprise initiation or clutch escape.