This analysis is only for the main jungle player in each team, who have appeared in more than 10 matches.
Since every team has players in rotation, the data is not representative for those substitutes with too few appearances.
Figure 1: A ring chart reflecting the best average kills, assistances, deaths, farms among all main jungle players.
As we can see from Figure 1.
The jungle player Kanavi from team JDG has the highest average kills, which means he could kill 3.9 enemies per game.
The jungle player Jiejie from team EDG has the highest average assistance and lowest average deaths, which means he could help his teammates to kill 7.7 enemies and could only die 1.9 per game.
The jungle player Leyan from team RA has the highest farming, which means he could kill 901 enemy units per game.
Let us take the jungle players of the top five teams in the LPL Summer Tournament(EDG, FPX, RNG, LNG, WE), and see what the difference is between these top jungle players.
| KDA | Money | Farming | Ward | Wardkill | Fight(%) | MVP | Excess | Damage(%) | Economic(%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDG Jiejie | 5 | 11055 | 813 | 12 | 12 | 71 | 10 | 24161 | 16 | 18 |
| FPX Tian | 3 | 11120 | 849 | 14 | 13 | 64 | 4 | 27863 | 17 | 18 |
| RNG Wei | 3 | 11314 | 837 | 18 | 14 | 68 | 6 | 16307 | 16 | 19 |
| LNG Tarzan | 4 | 11355 | 856 | 12 | 12 | 71 | 14 | 11305 | 17 | 19 |
| WE beishang | 4 | 11406 | 805 | 11 | 14 | 70 | 8 | 18513 | 17 | 19 |
Figure 2: A radar diagram comparing the data of jungle players of the top five teams.
As we can see from Table 1 and Figure 2:
These five jungle players have their own specialty in terms of ability, Jiejie from team EDG has highest KDA, Tian from team FPX can create huge parity economic excess with least economic share, Wei from team RNG focus more on vision, Tarzan from team LNG focus more on farming, beishang from team WE can gain high amount of money with less farming, which means his money mostly comes from killing enemy champions not enemy units.
A fun fact we can see from Figure 2 is that Tarzan,beishang have the same amount of KDA (though KDA of Tian and Wei is same too, we prefer higher KDA), now we put more attention on their exact kills, deaths and assistances, to see if there exists some difference between them.
Note: The formula to calculate the amount of KDA is: \[\begin{equation} \ KDA = \frac{Kill(total) + Assistance(total)}{Death(total)} \end{equation}\]
Figure 3: A bar plot comparing the average kills, deaths and assistances of two jungle players with the same KDA.
As we can see from Figure 3:
Tarzan and beishang are pretty close in each aspects, but Tarzan has a stronger ability to survive while beishang has a stronger ability to kill.