What's the point of jungling?

Question

I'm fairly new to League of Legends (or DotA-likes in general), but what's the point of jungling versus just killing minions? Do they give significantly more gold or experience than the peons from either side?

Asked by Nick T

Answer

There are many good reasons to have a jungler in your team:

• The player that stay solo (top usually) while he's lane partner jungle get more gold and experience.
• The jungler can do or help doing some kills by ganking mid (2vs1) or bottom (3vs2) in any moment.
• Some champions are more efficient in jungling than last-hitting in lane (e.g. Amumu, Rammus, Malphite)
• Best junglers can also take the dragon (190 gold to all team members) early

Answered by Drake

Check more discussion of this question.