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[–]Suuperdad 6 points7 points  (0 children)


This is (in my opinion) the single biggest reason. Sure there's the exp thing, the gold thing, the buff control thing... but the main reason is that when you have someone MIA constantly, every other lane has to play cautiously.

There are a lot of mids that could absolutely crush a nonjungle team, simply because it means they could push 24/7 with impunity. Think of how much stronger someone like AP Yi becomes when he no longer fears being ganked. He just pushes nonstop to the tower, harasses under the tower, heals off any counterharass, ensures nearly perfect CS while denying the opponent CS.

The threat of being ganked is what keeps a lot of really risky mids (especially melee mids, since they have to run further from ganks) from being hyper aggro and wrecking your midlaner.

Also, having no jungler means their jungler gets complete control of your jungle also. That whole "not enough farm in the jungle" thing goes away, and he can just farm himself near perfect CS (goldwise) from just farming both jungles nonstop, while still being a threat of a gank while unseen.