Hello, i'm your average (not boosted) diamond 5 jungle main.

I completely agree with the analisys on the frontpage.

However i fear that Riot will nerf gold and exp coming from jungle camps without decreasing their respawn timers consequently, leaving junglers weak/underleveled and therefore forcing the jungle meta to be just tanks and cc-bots, again.

What i mean in the title with "bursts of exp": jungle exp has been increased and respawn timers have been also increased. No problem on paper, same total exp, just distributed differently.

The problem is that junglers reach the first level-gated powerspikes too fast and then have plenty of time to impact lanes, waiting for camps to respawn. A full clear plus a 7th camp or a kill gives level 5 at 4:00; red buff plus krugs give level 3 at 2:20 while botlane is level 1 or just leveling to 2.

Before the changes, if you wanted to be overleveled as a jungler, you would have to afk farm the jungle because camps gave less exp but were spawning kinda fast (same exp overall but requiring non-stop farming). The price to pay for afk farming was the null impact on lanes. On the other side, gank-heavy junglers would gank at level 3 around 3:10-3:30 and reach leve 6 when midlane reached level 7, unless fed. Being weaker than laners would be the price for being able to impact the game early.

TL;DR:, new jungle and old jungle give approximately the same total exp but the new jungle gives it in bursts, speeding up powerspikes and giving junglers plenty of time to full clear AND gank/invade/do dragon without having to sacrifice one of the two. PLEASE don't just decrease jungle exp leaving spawn timers long af.