I have been mining Litecoin merged with Doge in a solo mining pool for almost 2 years. I have also PPS pool mined prior to that also.
Mathematically over time you will receive the same if you solo mine or pool mine based on your hashrate.
PPS pool mining you will receive more frequent smaller payouts.
Solo mining, or solo pool mining you will receive fewer larger payouts including the block reward and transaction fees (less any solo pool fee).
On
http://ltc.tbdice.org sometimes the transaction fees in the block are enough to cover the .005 pool fee and I receive 25 LTC and change.
Most of the time I receive 24.85 to 24.95 LTC
On the merged mine Doge I receive 9500 Doge + transaction fees. The pool keeps 500 Doge.
With the LTC and Doge combined value I receive about 110% of just mining LTC as if yesterday.
I would recommend to solo or solo pool mine you should have enough hash to find at least 1 block or more per week as its can get frustrating to go days with no rewards.
That is the reason many people PPS pool mine.
At the current difficulty of 241,000 (rounded) you would need about 4 L3+ or 2000 Mh/s to find a LTC block a week, and maybe 4 blocks of Doge.
Good Luck