Talk:Runeglaive/@comment-26837195-20150825122407/@comment-25617207-20150917223222

The champions you're talking about have problems in the jungle that appear way before they get to Runeglaive: their first clears. Not many AP champions can jungle because their damage comes mostly from abilities, instead of autoattacks. In the early game, they have huge cooldowns and small mana pools to be able to clear the jungle effectively. Not only that, but they have very weak sustain. Let's take a look at this instead:

Which effective junglers right now build Runeglaive?

The answer's probably going to be Elise, Ekko, Diana, or Nidalee. And why can they jungle? Because they have sustain: Elise has her spiderlings to tank for her, Ekko has a huge stun/shield, Diana has a shield, and Nidalee has a heal. Evelynn, despite not having health sustain, has very fast clears and mana regeneration on her passive, which compensates for the lack of heals or shields.

This is a limitation on AP champions: if they don't have sustain or very fast clears at early levels, then jungling with them is a pain. Save for a few exceptions, AP junglers were never very popular because of that.