Talk:Brand/@comment-15646871-20150423213531/@comment-24057740-20150609113719

Well It's sad, but the only "viable" Mage jungler at the moment are Nidalee and Fiddle (and Elize + Diana if you count them as mage). Even when some other picks could survive the jungle during s4, they where no real picks for soloQ.

One thing that many mages lack is strong duelling. As jungler you walk arround the whole map and through many bushes and facechaking a brush where lee sinn or Gragas is just waiting for Leblanc to use her jump can feel painfull. Mages design philosophy is to deal damage frome range and don't get hit by the enemy. It doesn't help, that some laners like Renekton could just outright kill you if you want to gank them with 70%-60% health.

Another Problem is what you expect from your jungler. In the current meta tanks and bruiser are common picks in the jungle, so your team expect you to be tanky and that you can initiate or at least fight on your own. Fiddle, while being a mage trys often to find ways to initiate or counter initiate with his ulty. Nidalee can't tank or initiate, but can delete a lone enemy on her own and doesn't need peel in a teamfight.

When your support needs to protect ADC + midlane mage + jungle mage, it can be stressfull for him.

TLDR: Don't play real mages in the jungle. They don't like to get hit by jungle creeps + enemy leesin and your teamcomp will lack an initiater or strong duellist.