User blog comment:Argronar/New Jungle Discussion/@comment-1330314-20141120194511

I feel is only dominant now because it's the safer option out there, at a time where everyone's trying to get a feel of the new jungle. It's definitely a great item, particularly for champions who have trouble sustaining in their jungle and have enough tools to influence the lanes (i.e. previously super-viable early game junglers). offers massive damage from the get-go on champions like, and  (especially Warwick),  is a great option on low-CC and/or easily kiteable junglers (I like it a lot on ), and  allows dedicated counterjunglers like  and  to thrive again.

From my limited jungling experience so far, I'd say Warwick is really strong now, and makes bruisers without a hard initiate such as Olaf and  finally viable. Olaf in particular has a guaranteed initiate when he uses the item with his ultimate. Though still gets crazy late-game damage, his early clear is a nightmare (make sure you get  at level 2). I'll have to check more in depth, but I think tanky junglers in general got a massive boost, and early game gankers are still in a pretty good state.