User blog comment:DoctorAsawa/League of Targon's - How Riot Effectively Killed Junglers/@comment-20804982-20131126163021

Different is not the same as bad. I have been playing since Season 1, and back then jungling was much more optional, and much more difficult - the neutral monsters hit much harder and only certain champs could really even pull it off. It became part of the meta, and Riot adapted itemization and characters to make it easier.

With that perspective:

1) Jungling is not dead - I see jungles it all the time. There are lots of strategic reasons to have a jungle versus two top.

2) The fact that you can play without a jungle or with rotating jungles is much BETTER than a game where a non-jungle comp is not viable. A game with a fixed meta is boring; not having a jungle shouldn't mean "QQ surrender at 20".

3) Just because you can't play the way you used to doesn't mean a role is dead or the game is worse.