In League of Legends, the Jungle player is responsible for farming camps, gaining vision for the team, counter-jungling, ganking, and contesting neutral objectives such as the Rift Herald and Dragon. In many ways, the Jungle player is the enabler of the team whose most important job is setting up their lane players to be successful, while simultaneously looking to put the enemy Jungle player behind.
Being a "Jungler" also requires an insane amount of macro knowledge, knowing where to be and when to be there is pivotal to being successful at the role. This list of the 10 best Jungle players of all time will go over the most important innovators, consistent stalwarts, and World Champions to ever play the role. All statistical information provided in this article was obtained through Liquipedia's League Of Legends page, Games of Legends, and Leaguepedia.
10 Hung "Karsa" Hao-Hsuan (洪浩軒)
Karsa is known for being one of the best Lee Sin players of all time boasting an astounding 67% career win rate on the champion. He is probably most remembered for his time on Flash Wolves, making an iconic run in the 2015 World Championships alongside his ex-teammate SwordArt. Over Karsa's career, he has won 4 LMS Championships, 3 LPL Championships, Rift Rivals, and a Mid-Season Invitational Title.
Karsa is currently chasing a World Championship title with Top E-sports (TES) who are hoping to make a name for themselves this Split. While not necessarily an innovator, Karsa has become a carry in the Jungle position, enabling his team to come back in games that should have otherwise been lost.
9 Gao "Ning" Zhen-Ning (高振宁)
Ning is most remembered for his insane Camille mechanics and absolute domination during the 2018 World Championships. What many do not credit Ning for is his role swap from being a Marksman to a Jungle player. Only a short year after swapping positions, Ning hoisted a Worlds trophy alongside his teammates on Invictus Gaming.
He holds an overall competitive record of 236 wins and 130 losses. He is remembered as the first player to pick Kayn in the LPL and is known for his ability to pilot mechanically intensive champions to very successful win rates.
8 Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu (김건부)
Canyon is a relative new-comer to competitive League of Legends; however, he has already etched a name for himself as one of the best Junglers to compete in League of Legends. Due to his ability to find leads against the enemy in almost every game, analysts and pundits have coined the term "Jungle Canyon" to describe the large gap in resources between the winning jungle and their struggling enemy.
Canyon is the Graves savant and holds an 84% win rate on the champion. In 2020, he won a World Championship trophy with DAMWON gaming alongside an LCK championship. Canyon's overall record is quite outstanding at 184 wins and 92 losses.
7 Go "Score" Dong-bin (고동빈) (Formerly "Joker")
Score is remembered as being one of the most loyal players KT Rolster has ever signed, spending almost 5 years of his professional career with the team. Score is one of the best Jungle players to have never won worlds. Alongside the likes of Ning, he performed an iconic role swap at the beginning of his professional career.
Score's record in competitive play is 300 wins and 207 losses with his most picked champion being Gragas. Before his retirement, Score spent an outstanding 7 years playing in Korea -- the most competitive region in the world. Over his career, he cemented himself as a hall of fame tier player in League of Legends.
6 Kang "Ambition" Chan-yong (강찬용)
Ambition is one of the most dominant Jungle players to grace the Summoner's Rift, but before that, he was known as one of Korea's best Mid Laners. However, Ambition is most remembered for being apart of the iconic Samsung Galaxy run at the 2017 World Championships, dethroning SKT T1, and bringing their 3-peat dream to a crushing end, defeating his longtime rival, Faker.
Alongside being a World Championship winner, Ambition has won 2 MLG events, 2 IEM events, and has won 2 LCK Regional Championships. Ambition was a highly adaptable jungle player thriving on a variety of different champion picks such as Rek'Sai, Lee Sin, and Sejuani.
5 Choi "inSec" In-seok (최인석)
During All-stars in 2013, Insec would perform one of the most iconic maneuvers in competitive League of Legends history. After landing a Lee Sin Shockwave on yellowpete, inSec proceeded to ward jump behind him using Safeguard before activating his ultimate, Dragon's Rage, to kick the vulnerable enemy Marksman towards his team.
This play, in and of itself, changed how the Jungle position was perceived by many pundits. Before this, the Jungle was regarded as a position that took less mechanical prowess than Laners because they had no direct opponent contesting their resources at all times. inSec changed this perception through his aggressive Jungle pathing and insane mechanical ability.
4 Danil "Diamondprox" Reshetnikov (Данил Решетников)
Diamondprox, known for his days of domination with world-renowned Moscow 5 (M5), invented most of the Jungle concepts that are still implemented to this day. Diamondprox was the first Jungle player to prioritize counter-jungling his opponent's camps to keep them out of the game. Diamondprox, alongside his teammates on M5, invented what is known today as "priority" through his iconic, farm-centric Shyvana pick.
In essence, Diamondprox's teammates would pick champions that could easily push waves, enabling him to roam into the enemy jungle without fear of the enemy Top and Mid Lane players collapsing on him. Diamondprox changed the Jungle role from being a PVE role to an aggressive, skirmish-centric role where fighting over neutral objectives and enemy camps is the priority.
3 Choi "DanDy" In-kyu (최인규)
DanDy will always be remembered for his World Championship performance in 2014. In a meta where Kha'zix was arguably the best Jungle champion, DanDy did not hesitate to counter-pick it with his beloved Rengar. DanDy focused on a skirmish heavy, bottom lane gank-heavy playstyle.
Alongside his former teammate and support player Mata, the two players developed a unique playstyle where, after gaining bottom lane priority, the support would roam into the bottom side river with the jungle player to secure vision and fight over objectives. DanDy's trophy case shows off many accolades an LCK Championship and a World Championship among them.
2 Ming "ClearLove" Kai (明凯)
Over this career, ClearLove has won an IGN Pro League, Mid-Season Invitational, LPL Regional Final, Rift Rivals, and an LPL Championship. Alongside these wins, ClearLove has been to qualified for the World Championship tournament an astounding 4 times. He was part of one of the most dominating rosters ever assembled on a Chinese team with EDG in 2017. During the Spring Slit that EDG won that year, ClearLove carried an overall KDA of 6.26.
ClearLove's overall competitive win rate sits at 259 wins and 109 losses. Unfortunately, ClearLove has never really showed up for his team when it comes to domestic performance, and as such, has never won a World Championship. However, due to his time spent as a competitive player (from 2012 - present), and his adaptability to various different meta's over the year, ClearLove has demonstrated himself as the most resilient pro-players to ever compete at the highest level in League of Legends.
1 Bae "bengi" Seong-woong (배성웅)
bengi, nicknamed the "Jungle himself", is without a doubt the most decorated and celebrated Jungler to hoist the Summoners Cup. bengi's accolades as a professional player are astounding. He is a 3 time World Champion with SKT T1, a Mid-Season Invitational Champion, a 5-time LCK Champion, and an All-star Invitational Champion. bengi, alongside Faker, are the only players in competitive League of Legends that have won 3 World Championship titles together.
Most of all, bengi is remembered for his iconic appearance in the 2016 World Championship. After Blank's underwhelming performance against the Koo Tigers, bengi was subbed in and assisted SKT T1 in overcoming their rivals advancing the team to the finals. bengi's overall competitive win rate is 150 wins to 61 losses and holds over a 70% win rate with champions such as Lee Sin and Elise, both of whom he is known for piloting exquisitely well.