Ranking all 24 junglers at the League of Legends World Championship
By Josh Tyler
15. Chen “Alex” Yu-Ming (AHQ) – 72 OVR
Alex has incredibly strong KDA numbers, including a 3.52 aKDA and 110.8% aKP that are both among the best for junglers at Worlds. Beyond that, though, his other key stats are plain below average. Alex isn’t a particularly bad jungler, by any stretch, but he’ll need his teammates to help carry the load for AHQ.
14. Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pedersen (Fnatic) – 72 OVR
The next big shocker on this list, Broxah has proven to be the weak link that could be holding back Fnatic. His vision per minute (1.44), Laning Score (-0.98), and Kill Efficiency (2.35) are all far below where you would anticipate a jungler on a tournament favorite like Fnatic would be. It’s particularly troubling how reliant he is on his own pocket picks like Lee Sin and Elise, which could be punished at the World Championship.
13. Lee “Crash” Dong-woo (Hong Kong Attitude) – 73 OVR
He’s the perfect “Baby Bear” jungler at Worlds because Crash doesn’t do anything fantastically or terribly. He’s above average in a few metrics like income and kill participation, but below average in others like KDA and damage output. Like Broxah, he has a fairly shallow champion pool (mainly Lee Sin) that could be exploited.
12. Lu “Leyan” Jue (Invictus Gaming) – ?? OVR
So, for the first time in this ranking, I am going to decline to rate a player. Leyan has two performances of extremely small sample sizes, as he’s only played five games in the LPL Summer’s regular season and 11 games between the LPL playoffs and regional qualifiers combined.
Without proper statistics, we really can’t rate him properly, so we’ll put him right in the middle. However, I will say that in his small sample size he’s shown some positives, such as very strong income and damage numbers, but a few weaknesses you’d expect from a young jungler (high deaths per game).
11. Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen (Cloud9) – 74 OVR
I mean, unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie, NA is just massively behind the rest of the World in terms of jungle talent. Svenskeren was the shoo-in best jungler in NA during the LCS regular season, but when stacking his numbers up against the rest of the junglers at Worlds, he ends up being average. His 2.82 aKDA, 342.9 aGPM, and 1.78 VSPM all lapped his fellow LCS junglers, but the junglers he’ll face at Worlds will make him look outclassed.