User blog comment:Dracko40/The Angry Illithid: Jungler's Aren't There To Win Your Lane./@comment-3067750-20110831231132/@comment-3466579-20110901064851

usiar is pretty damn right. i usually play normal games with a friend of mine, who usually jungles, and so i always try to solotop, which i'm quite good at, with both irelia and galio. but that's because i know my friend, and we can communicate via ts. but whenever i play by myself, i'm always scared when i see someone picking a jungler while there isn't a single champion that can hold the top lane. this is due, in my opinion, to the fact that a jungler does not give anything to a team by itself, but he becomes very important (and possibily, game changing) when the whole team is able to play with him. it is far better to don't have a jungler at all rather then having a good jungler but an incompetent solo top or a constantly pushing bottom lane. so my advice is to make sure that your team can hold a 1v2 or a hard 1v1 lane before picking a jungler, or you may have to choose a jungler that can gank very early or stay in lane for some time, in case your teammates suck.