User blog comment:Tinhboe/Elder Lizard vs Feral Flare/@comment-5224716-20140814121748

The reason why LCS players pick Elder Lizard over Flare is because they want to gank, not farm. That's why farm junglers aren't played in LCS, because they have bad ganks (or can gank only with their ults, like Warwick). So if you'd pick, let's say, Udyr, the enemy Lee Sin would gank the shit out of your team and even if you had hundreds of farm, all your lanes would be losing, so it wouldn't matter.

The reason why farm junglers work in solo Q is that ganks are harder to coordinate when you can't communicate with your team, so picking farm jungler is a better option cause the enemy's jungler might not succeed in a lot of ganks.

I still use Feral Flare on champions like Yi, WW, Udyr, etc. and I don't think it's a bad item, it's still good and viable, just not broken as it used to be. I go for Elder Lizard if I'm looking to gank more than farm, so Vi, Lee, etc.