Jungle’s agency isn’t really going anywhere. The role is not getting nerfed to the ground.

Jungle really won’t be nerfed as hard as laners seem to think it will. What I’ve been seeing since the changes were introduced is laners being overjoyed that jungle is getting nerfed, and so on.

Sure, we’ll clear slower, camps will be tankier, ganking will be harder, and our quest isn’t as exciting as the laners’ quests.

But…

As soon as I, as a jungler, finish my quest and can start moving around the jungle at Mach 10, we’re basically back to the current state of jungle. Jungle is, and always will be, the role with highest impact unless the role gets reworked entirely from the ground up. With jungle now getting 1400 damage smite and objectives becoming tankier, laners literally can’t realistically do objectives without a jungler present unless there's a chogath. Meanwhile I as a jungler, can be at any fight I want within seconds thanks to high movement speed, able to turn any 1v1 or 2v2 into a 3v2 or 2v1 where the laner that's getting ganked will always lose more if they die and as a result feel like jungle is too strong.

Mark my words: come Season 16, jungle will be called busted, OP, saying the difference between an autofill and main is too large, and complaining that the role still has way too much agency within the first week. The role is not getting nerfed to the ground.