The former top damage dealers in the jungle 
all are lower damage than Dr. Mundo now. They all have to build damage to do damage. Not Mundo. Mundo does what he pleases.
Mundo deals more damage than rageblade devourer Jax on average.
Lime Josh6 votesthe longer a fight goes on/the longer a player is IN the fight, the MORE damage they will have done.
Knowing how mundo's job is to soak as much damage as possible he will survive along time, all while spamming cleavers, AAs and burning oppnenets aoe
I'm not surprised mundo can do more damage then squishy yii and Kin @ the end of a 45 min game
BluePolarizer1 votesmost games are shorter now so it's not that games are longer and fights are longer. It's more like Mundo's base damage is so overtuned due to his recent straight buffs and even more recent indirect buffs that it's simply too hard to deal with him.
lolipopevelynn3 votesThe former top damage dealers in the jungle
Mundo deals more damage than rageblade devourer Jax on average.
im so sick of people using "damage dealt to champs" for any kind of real argument. you need to understand the basic nature of AoE damage vs SINGLE TARGET damage when you are looking at damage dealt to champs. mundo W is pretty much perm aoe damage on top of the fact that he is a tank so he can live longer in team fights damaging people with that aoe. someone like yi will only do single target damage most of the time and is too squishy to stay in a fight for long to damage multiple champs UNLESS he is ultra fed. jax and kindred is in the same boat. shyv W is similar to mundo, but its temporary and is not up permanently like his is.
long story shore, he does more damage because of perm upkeep of his W combined with the fact that he is a ultra tank who can stay in fights and damage an entire team with that W at any point in the game post lane phase. no other reason
BluePolarizer3 votesAOE damage is almost always superior unless the numbers on single target damage is way higher. That is why Orianna is far more impactful than Malzahar despite Malzahar's absolutely insane scaling and is why Talon is considered to not fall off as hard as Zed or LeBlanc.
Kindred is supposed to be able to stay in a fight for a long time due to her extreme mobility, range and ult. Yet she's still doing less damage than Mundo.
Critmaster Garen1 votesthis is straight up wrong. he may have the strongest ad steroid, but he doesnt buy multiplicative stats to synergize with the ad like carries do.
attack speed, critical strike, lifesteal, cooldown reduction for ad scaling spells make the difference. marksmen and 2 melee adc with tryn and yasuo who synergize with the same items as them, are dealing the highest sustained damage right now by far.
the statistic of total damage during a game is unrealiable, as there are many factors playing into it.
for example a mage might deal a lot of damage on paper with aoe poke, that has little impact because its easily outsustained. but an adc can crit someone twice and deal overall little damage compared to the mage, but have a larger impact due to that damage being focused and killing the target.
in mundos case its mostly that hes trading a lot of damage back and forth against other tanky top laners. when your opponent has a larger hp pool and you frequently trade with him, youre gonna deal a lot of damage over the course of a game.
on the other hand, trades between glass cannons are often short and end fast in one of the 2 getting killed due to the lower hp pools and the large burst of critical strikes.
this is now more noticable than before due to the much shorter games. if the games would actually last 40 minutes, youd see marksmen dealing about triple the total damage than everyone else, as theyre not just trading rarely with squishies, but start attacking more tanky targets during the teamfight phase.
BluePolarizer3 votesHe is the highest damage JUNGLER, which means he is not even trading for most of the laning phase. Jungler damage output is almost solely gank and teamfight focused. He is far more impactful than Shyvana, Kindred or Yi because all these 3 have is damage, and Mundo does it better.
WinBoat1 votesI'm sorry, but I think Mundo sucks and is a troll pick out of all the other possible top lane picks you could go. Sure, every once in a blue moon, you will see a Mundo who can go 15-0. For the most part, they suck, and are a waste of a pick. It's like picking Bard support down botlane when you could pick a much better pick like Blitz, Thresh, Morgana, and just pretty much every other support.
This comment is going to piss people off, I don't care for speaking my opinion, and what I feel is true based on games I've played.
But with that said, feel free to pick Mundo please. I'll be happy with Hecarim, Riven, Darius, Heimdinger, and countless other top laners I have to choose from.
BluePolarizer2 voteshe is the highest damage JUNGLER. Also, Riven is trash tier right now with a 45% win rate. I'd rather have the Mundo, because at least he wins games.