User blog comment:Troll the Fools/Am I right for thinking this?/@comment-74.240.127.172-20120716212405

Your tanky DPS are usually the better junglers. They seem to clear the jungle faster and have better damage when ganking. Most tanky DPS are fine when built with any jungling item so they can practically live in the jungle with a little sustain. Some even have the option of jungling without Smite, although Smite's kinda necessary. They usually need to build with the enemy team, making the gold from a solo lane more beneficial to them, but the gold from successfully ganking could offset that, keeping the enemy teams build down and more gold to build your own.

Most tanks aren't that good at jungling, they clear much slower because they don't have the damage. There are no tanks I can think of that really synergize with any jungling item because they have relatively low attack speed so they remain kind of stagnant clear after clear beyond items and leveling. Low clearing time and sustain makes them susceptible to counterjungling and the better jungle tanks (amumu, maokai are the best imo so they're most of what I'm drawing from) are kinda blue buff dependent. They may even need to keep blue for a second pass over the solo mid. They may have CC for ganking but they usually are limited to one or two real damage dealing abilities so they'd have to rely much more heavily on team coordination/damage from the laner. On the other hand, tanks comparitively don't need that much gold for their build.

The average tanky DPS excels at most aspects of the jungle compared to your average tank (which pretty much excels at nothing, they're kinda just there) but the tanky DPS would benefit more from the gold of a solo lane than the jungle. It comes down to personal preference, are you willing to sacrifice jungle strength in your team composition (which benefits all lanes) for one single better lane? I'm not as I have seen the importance of junglers and seen teams win from essentially the strength of their jungler.