Talk:VPBE/@comment-24951773-20150225174833/@comment-24951773-20150225192751

People were complaining to Riot that there wasn't enough diversity in the jungle, seeing as how the jungle items made it much easier for ad bruisers, while making it rather difficult for tanky or ap junglers. This made ad bruisers OP, so Riot reacted by inreasing the cost of the jungle item, making it even harder for other junglers. Riot increased pricing even further, making it so that now swapping jungle items was no longer free. Now, junglers with poor camp clears had to choose between ganking with Stalker's Blade or farming with Ranger's Trailblazer, making it even harder for a lot of junglers. Then Riot decides to nerf the range of smite, thus nerfing Stalker's Blade and many junglers who have no other means of catching enemies from a distance.

It's gotten to the point that the most viable junglers are lee sin, J4, Vi, and Rek'Sai, while all other junglers struggle for one reason or another.

I'm not saying that balancing the jungle will be easy. I'm just saying I really think riot went in the complete wrong direction with their jungle changes.