Statikk, assistant game designer for League of Legends, made a few comments about the upcoming changes to the jungle for pre-season 3. The main concern revolves around how jungleing changed in season 2. Since the jungle became so much easier to navigate, the characters with AOE damage abilities could clear faster with little negatives. How easy the jungle is also allowed for many more early ganks. This made certain characters less desirable to play in lane since they need to be close to minions to farm well. Characters like Karthus can farm at range without being in much danger from bush ganks.
Riot’s answer to these issues is to make the jungle harder again. By increasing the damage of jungle mobs, high sustain champions such as Warwick and Fiddlesticks will become far more viable again. Also, new jungle item specific items are going to be added to make junglers have an easier time locking in their roll a bit more. The monsters will increase in difficulty more so to keep up with the junglers.
Statikk says these changes will occur to the jungle:
This sounds like the end of leashing blue early game. Either that, or leashing will have to change altogether. Over all, it sounds like the junglers are going to have a harder time and players in lane will have slightly less to worry about at all times.
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