As a jungler, mid always asks for the second blue, but I need the experience and the buff. Am I wrong to think this? Generally speaking, when should you give blue to your mid, and when should you keep it for yourself?
League-of-legends – When should the jungler give mid blue buff
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In general, ganking is most opportune when the enemy is over-extended in a lane, so you can more easily get a kill. If you run around trying to gank, but don't landing any kills, you'll quickly get underfed and have a hard time throughout the game.
If a lane is struggling, you can have them let the enemy push to set you up for a better gank. If it's too easy for them to get away from you, then your gank is pretty much useless. That being said, in early levels, if you can get the enemy to burn summoner spells, that can be considered a success.
This picture that I just saw on League of Legends Reddit has a good way of explaining why and when it resets.
When someone attacks (leashes) blue buff, it will attempt to move towards that player to attack. However, blue buff can not move outside of its indicated aggro range. If the player that attacked blue first is still within its aggro range, it will continue to try and reach that player. When it can not, and it reaches its aggro range border, it will soft reset up to a maximum of 2 times. If the player that attacked it first leaves aggro range, it will continue to try, and move towards that player until it reaches its aggro range again. When it does, it will attempt to attack a player that is within the aggro range (and has attacked blue). Hard resets happen when it soft resets 2 times, then resets again. It will return to its original spawning location, ignoring all actions made by players.
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Best Answer
It depends.
If the mid player uses a champion that can take great advantage of blue buff - for example Anivia, Ahri, Karthus and most other mana based casters - then giving them the blue buff is the most important action you can do to win the game.
Having blue buff on one of the mid characters often means they can win the lane so they will be twice as strong in the lategame which will then allow your team to win every teamfight later on.
This is also the reason why you should try to deny the opponents blue buff if you get the opportunity - if both have blue buff it cancels out. Every second that your mid has blue and the opponent doesn't is a second that he can bully the opponent out of CS.
As Jungler your goal is not to win the game, your goal is to help the others win their lanes. Missing out on that experience and gold is easily worth it.
However, there are exceptions:
As first exception there is of course the case where mid doesn't need the mana and does not rely that much on the cooldowns. As an example champions like Kennen or Vladimir - while they do benefit from blue buff - can do ok without.
In that case you should look at who else in the team could use the blue buff, for example if you are on the blue side and you have Jax in the top lane he can make good use of an early blue since he's very mana reliant in the early game.
Another exception are mana dependant Junglers like Amumu and Fiddle that usually need the second blue for themselves before their mana regen becomes good enough. In that case take it but the third and following ones should still go to the others in your team.
The last exception - something you should avoid at all times but sometimes can't - is when your team is just bad. I don't mean mid dying once or twice, i mean when they go 0/5 under the enemy tower and such, then you might be able to do more with the blue buff than they would do, after all it's better someone on your team has blue than your mid donating it straight to the opponent.
When in doubt, give blue to your teammates.