Pre-Worlds Early Game Update

[quote=Vynertje][quote=utopus]A couple patches ago, mid laners basically had to pick vlad/viktor/azir, junglers had to pick graves/nidalee, top laners basically had to pick gangplank or a tank, and supports had to pick karma, or a tank. I think that this sort of team composition with damage emphasized on the junglers and mid laners makes fights finish much more quickly. In the current meta, junglers are preferred tanky (like reksai and gragas), and mid laners can afford to do less damage (e.g. lissandra, zilean). While teams still draft compositions that deal enough damage, I think that the overall damage dealt per team per second has decreased over the past couple months.[/quote] Bit late to this but jungle atm doesn't necessarily lean towards tanky picks, it leans towards good ganking junglers. Reksai and Gragas happen to be tanks, but that's because they're the only good ganking junglers with good clear/control/sustain etc. Plus, they still build damage items: reksai going tiamat first item, grag starting runic echoes and sometimes also going iceborn. I don't think that change suddenly means that comps end up being low on damage, there are still a lot of bruisers top lane (+gp).[/quote]