User blog comment:Bluephoeisdfg/What if only one side had minions?/@comment-6906412-20130524022421

The team without Minions would win, because the other team has no source of exp aside from the jungle. Splitting the jungle across five team members is nowhere near as effective as laning, so the team without minions could just sit at the tower gaining exp, farm, and levels while the team with minions has to run back to farm the jungle. The level gap will rapidly increase, and the team without minions would be able to get kills and simply wait until they are tanky enough to split turret aggro (and would be by that time, I estimate about four or five levels ahead), and simply facetank the rest of the game for the win.