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League of Legends Solo Queue Tier Lists for Patch 26.13:

Welcome to the longest-running League of Legends tier list in the world. This tier list is created using statistical analysis coupled with nearly a decade of experience in League of Legends. Specially curated for players that aren't already God's gift to the world, this list is for the humble player looking to climb without massive hours dedicated to mastering champions.

Trusted for our consistent updates and constant feedback, this list is as much yours as it is ours. If you disagree with any champion placements feel free to post in the comment section! We'll gladly either voice our opinion or enter into a discussion on champion placement.

Read on to see the tier list that's granted millions of players around the world massive success in their League of Legends ranked climb.

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

SOLO QUEUE LOL TIER LIST 

SEASON 16 - PATCH 26.13

Welcome to the longest-running League of Legends tier list in the world. This tier list is created using statistical analysis coupled with nearly a decade of experience in League of Legends. Specially curated for players that aren't already God's gift to the world, this list is for the humble player looking to climb without massive hours dedicated to mastering champions.

Trusted for our consistent updates and constant feedback, this list is as much yours as it is ours. If you disagree with any champion placements feel free to post in the comment section! We'll gladly either voice our opinion or enter into a discussion on champion placement.

Read on to see the tier list that's granted millions of players around the world massive success in their League of Legends ranked climb.

Patch 26.13 Tier List Update Summary

The headline story of 26.13 is Locke, whose explosive, hard-to-punish kit has made him the most feared champion in the game across every role he's played (Mid, Jungle, and Top), a classic "new and terrifying" signature that earns a God Tier slot on threat level alone. Elsewhere, Wukong quietly delivers one of the strongest jungle kits in the game, Nasus has climbed to the top of the jungle as a late-game menace, and Naafiri has become one of the scariest lane opponents on the Rift with her explosive all-in potential. Malphite, Jinx, Thresh, Senna, and Seraphine round out the top of the meta as consistently dominant champions.

Check out the full tier list below!

Contents and Related Links:

1. Optimal Champion Bans by Division
2. Strongest Potential Champions - Champions with the highest potential in the game

Patch 26.13 Highlights

Updates

• 26.13: Locke enters the tier list at God Tier (Mid) as the most dominant new threat in the game; Wukong, Nasus, and Naafiri all see major movement in the jungle.

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LoL Tier List For Solo Queue

The tier lists below start at the strongest champions on the tier list and is ordered from left to right in power level. The tier lists are also separated into multiple segments for ease of understanding, but champions from a higher segment of the tier list may still lose to a counter pick from a lower-tier segment of the tier list.

Full LoL Tier List For Solo Queue

The tier list below lists every viable champion in the game along with a few unorthodox picks that can still perform fairly well. This tier list is meant to organize every viable champion in the game into an order with the average experienced player in mind. Generally speaking, this is somewhere between silver and platinum. This tier list can also be used for higher divisions, but the higher you go, the more specialized at specific champions you become. 

God Tier List

[Highest Influence | Good In Almost Every Situation | Easiest to Gain LP With]

Mid Lane	Locke, Xerath, Diana
Jungle	Wukong, Nasus, Rammus
Top Lane	Singed, Garen, Kayle
Bot Lane	Jinx, Senna, Seraphine
Support	Thresh, Leona, Sona

Tier 1

[Strong/Preferred Choices | Good Effort to Benefit Ratio | Works Well In Solo Queue]

Mid-Lane: Vladimir, Fizz, Veigar, Naafiri, Swain, Pantheon, Malzahar, Lux, Vex, Ahri, Sylas

Jungle: Warwick, Briar, Shyvana, Zyra, Bel'Veth, Udyr, Aatrox, Master Yi, Viego, Graves, Kayn

Top: Malphite, Kled, Warwick, Shen, Urgot, Wukong, Ornn, Dr. Mundo, Teemo, Quinn, Sett

Bot Lane: Caitlyn, Jhin, Tristana, Ashe, Miss Fortune, Twitch, Smolder, Samira

Support: Braum, Rell, Zilean, Janna, Nautilus, Milio, Soraka, Taric, Maokai, Poppy, Amumu

Tier 2

[Viable/Balanced Choices | Common In Solo Queue | Needs Practice To Get Good]

Mid-Lane: Riven, Lissandra, Ekko, Katarina, Hwei, Zed, Twisted Fate, Akali, Yone, Annie, Kassadin, Galio, Yasuo, LeBlanc, Anivia, Irelia, Akshan, Zoe, Vel'Koz, Talon, Aurora, Malphite, Brand, Ziggs

Jungle: Fiddlesticks, Darius, Amumu, Sejuani, Nunu & Willump, Rek'Sai, Lillia, Naafiri, Jarvan IV, Evelynn, Vi, Jax, Diana, Trundle, Ekko, Xin Zhao, Talon, Gwen, Gragas, Shaco

Top: Aatrox, Gangplank, Jax, Darius, Yone, Yorick, Irelia, Tryndamere, Mordekaiser, Renekton, Illaoi, Olaf, Nasus, Pantheon, Sion, Riven, Tahm Kench, Cho'Gath, Fiora

Bot Lane: Kai'Sa, Vayne, Sivir, Draven, Zeri, Aphelios, Lucian, Xayah, Kalista, Yasuo, Nilah, Veigar

Support: Blitzcrank, Vel'Koz, Zyra, Rakan, Elise, Renata Glasc, Tahm Kench, Fiddlesticks, Galio, Xerath, Alistar, Nami, Morgana, Brand, Hwei, Karma, Bard, Lulu, Lux, Shen

Tier 3

[Needs Higher Skill or Knowledge | Counterpicks]

Mid-Lane: Aurelion Sol, Qiyana, Sion, Cho'Gath, Cassiopeia, Taliyah, Jayce, Corki, Karthus, Gwen, Fiddlesticks

Jungle: Nidalee, Elise, Quinn, Skarner, Kha'Zix, Kindred, Poppy, Zac, Teemo, Hecarim, Volibear, Malphite, Lee Sin, Karthus, Jayce

Top: Yasuo, Akali, Vayne, Heimerdinger, Jayce, Volibear, Camille, Gnar, Gragas, Poppy, Gwen, Ambessa, Vladimir, Kennen, Anivia, Trundle, Lissandra

Bot Lane: Ezreal, Yunara, Corki, Varus, Xerath, Hwei, Swain, Vel'Koz, Brand, Ziggs, Kog'Maw, Syndra, Katarina, Vladimir

Support: Pyke, Shaco, Neeko, Camille, Swain, LeBlanc, Teemo, Anivia

Tier 4

[Low Benefit Based On Effort Used]

Mid-Lane: Ryze, Orianna, Mel, Azir, Smolder

Jungle: Rengar, Locke

Top: K'Sante, Locke, Rumble

Bot Lane: Mel

Support: Yuumi, Zoe, Ashe, Mel

New Player LoL Tier List

Many users have requested a summarized tier list that just includes suggested champions to play for new players. The tier list below includes the best beginner champions. The tier list is also organized from most beginner-friendly to least beginning friendly (Top, Bot, Support, Mid, Jungle). Since jungle isn't particularly beginner-friendly I've only included two champions on the list.

Top Tier List

1. God Tier: Garen
2. Tier 1: Malphite

Bot Tier List

1. God Tier: Jinx, Senna, Seraphine
2. Tier 1: Tristana

Support Tier List

1. God Tier: Thresh, Leona, Sona
2. Tier 1: Braum

Mid Tier List

1. God Tier: Locke
2. Tier 1: Xerath

Jungle Tier List

1. God Tier: Wukong
2. Tier 1: Nasus

Instructions and Caveats

• Champions in BOLD I will talk about shortly
• Champions UNDERLINED may be over/undervalued, but aren't/haven't played enough for me to make a better judgment.
• Within each tier, the champions are strongest from left to right, but within a tier, each champion's strength is relatively close. This is especially true for Tiers 2 and 3 where these champions are ALL highly playable and player dependent on how strong they are in-game.
• Win Rates are important in analyzing each champion's strength but are not the end-all criteria for any champion's position.
• Professional Picks may not necessarily translate into good picks for the solo queue ladder, the two have slightly different meta-games and skill levels.
• The creator of this list is diamond so there may be some personal bias towards higher tier play on certain champions.

League of Legends Tier List Descriptions

When making this tier list we initially considered using tier list descriptions similar to others with S-tier, A-tier etc. However, In the initial build of the tier list way back when we started, it was more popular to use a God Tier designation and then go down from there on the tier list. As a result, we've stuck by this concept through the years. However, since God Tier is supposed to be relatively exclusive on this tier list, we try and limit it to only three or four picks per role at most. This means that there may be champions that are close to God tier on this tier list, but don't quite make it and are instead at the top of Tier 1.

God Tier: These champions are almost impossible to keep down. If your team doesn't make it a priority to shut down these champions and shut them down hard, even if they lose their lane, lose in CS, and it's their first time playing the champion, they can be a massive nuisance for your team. On the other hand, if they're actually good at the champion...that's when it's time to throw in the towel.

Tier 1: These champions generally do very well regardless, and have some sort of advantage over most other champions. When they do well, their team does well. Even when they don't do well, their team still has a good chance of a comeback victory by utilizing one or more aspects of their late-game utility.

Tier 2: This is the Tier of balanced champions where Riot shoots to place their designs. These champions generally do well in their own right and are very strong picks with a good chance of winning. However, they're not overpowered by any means and do have their weaknesses.

Tier 3: These champions can still do very well, but tend to need a little more snowballing to get rolling. Even if they get an early lead, it's still very possible to turn the tides on them with just a mistake or two. They may also have some weaknesses that can be capitalized on.

Tier 4: These champions are either underpowered or offer less reward than other champions for the same amount of effort. These champions basically start winning from the get-go or get made fun of for the rest of the game. They need gold to do their job correctly, and if they don't get enough of it, they become sandbags for the enemy team to punch. Chances of a comeback with one of these champions feeding on your team is almost none.

Thoughts on Win Rates

In the past, some people complained that this tier list focused too much on win rates and not enough on play rates. However, this tier list takes into account both win rates and play rates before performing analysis on the champion. Just because there's a high correlation on win rates and position on the tier list doesn't indicate that this tier list is solely based on win rates, if anything the champion power level drives the win rates and supports the claim to validity.

League of Legends is an extremely intricate game and this tier list strives to be as accurate as possible to give you the strongest champion picks. We ordered them on the tier list based on what is most likely to give you the highest chance of winning the game. However, the tier list will over time, have a bias towards win rates since this does indicate that the ordering is accurate and not prone to fluctuations in play rate.

With enough playtime, a high win rate on a champion indicates *something* generally goes right, and a low win rate indicates that whatever is happening in games with this champion isn't in their favor.

A low win rate may mean a champion is being played incorrectly and is stronger than his win rate indicates, but a top 25 win rate (with 120+ champions) almost always indicates that a champion is at least a good candidate for Tier 1 or high Tier 2 if the sample size is large enough.

This means that champions with high win rates do not mean that they're necessarily GOOD right now, especially if they have a low play rate or tend to get into favorable match-ups. If we feel this is the case, these champions will place differently on this tier list than you'd think.

Similarly, champions with low win rates that are still within the acceptable deviations may end up slightly higher than you'd expect from a champion with mediocre win rates. Locke is the clearest example of this on 26.13: a sub-50% win rate in every role, but a ban rate so far beyond anything else on the list that it's impossible to leave out of God Tier.

If there are champions on this tier list with low overall play rates but good win rates after relatively few games of practice, it may mean that players that pick those champions up just to try them are bringing down the average. If this is the case, we will place them higher on the list.

Counter Picking Champions

In Tier 3 of this tier list, we've placed certain champions that are good as a second pick but can get spanked hard if they end up first picking by a variety of meta champions. If you're good at a large variety of champions, picking a champion that counters your lane is a good place to start. If you can get a slight advantage and don't have a clear experience advantage, picking a champion that both places high on this tier list and also counters your enemy lane may give you enough to win a game.

LoL Tier List Champion Explanations

Locke [God Tier Mid]

Locke is the newest champion in the game, and the meta hasn't figured him out yet, but nobody wants to be the one who lets him snowball. His kit rewards mechanical mastery with enormous burst and mobility, and most games are still first-time-on-champion territory as the ladder learns his combos. Respect him early, because once he gets rolling he's extremely hard to shut down.

Wukong [God Tier Jungle]

Wukong is this patch's quiet powerhouse, with a clean and forgiving clear pattern and a knockup ultimate that turns any teamfight into a 5-for-1. He flies under the radar, which makes him one of the easiest ways to climb right now if you start playing him before the rest of the ladder catches on and starts banning him more.

Jinx [God Tier Bot]

It's almost impossible to keep Jinx down. Her early game is nearly balanced and her mid to late game snowballs so fast with a few kills that team fights are always a dangerous affair for any enemies to engage in. She's one of the safest and most rewarding marksmen to learn, with a kit that scales cleanly into every stage of the game.

Thresh [God Tier Support]

The most picked support in the game by a wide margin, Thresh punishes any positioning mistake from the enemy backline with a single hook and can peel just as effectively as he can engage. He's unforgiving to learn, since landing hooks consistently takes real reps, but there's no support with a higher skill ceiling relative to his reward.

Nasus [Tier 1 Jungle]

Nasus is a genuine late-game menace in the jungle, as his stacked Q eventually one-shots anything it touches. The catch is everything before that point: his clear is slow, he's easy to invade early, and if he falls behind on stacks he's a non-factor for the rest of the game.

Malphite [Tier 1 Top]

Malphite remains one of the most feared top laners in the game: his ultimate alone can end a teamfight before it starts, and he's nearly unkillable once he gets a couple of items online. The downside is a genuinely miserable laning phase against ranged bullies, and if his team falls behind, he has very little to offer beyond his one big button.

Seraphine [God Tier Bot / Tier 1 Support]

Seraphine is a genuine bot lane threat who can flex into support just as easily, with strong poke and shielding either way. She's rarely played, though, and for good reason: she's positioning-dependent and squishy, and most lobbies simply haven't practiced the matchup against her yet.

Senna [God Tier Bot / Tier 1 Support]

Senna is one of the few champions strong enough to headline both the ADC and support tier lists at once, turning soul stacks into genuine hypercarry damage. The tradeoff is a weak early base kit: she needs a safe lane and a good number of stacks before she's actually dangerous, so a rough laning phase can leave her behind for good.

Naafiri [Tier 1/Tier 2 Jungle & Mid]

Naafiri has become one of the scariest lane opponents in the game this patch, thanks to a pack-summon all-in that can delete a lane opponent in seconds. She's high-risk to play, though: if the initial dive doesn't land a kill, she's left with very little to fall back on.

Pyke [Tier 2 Support]

Pyke remains one of the most feared supports in the game for his high pressure roams, letting him pick off isolated targets across the map when you least expect it. His downside is real, though: a Pyke who doesn't get an early kill provides almost nothing for his carries, and a losing Pyke is one of the weakest supports in the game.

Disclaimer:

• The purpose of this list is for discussion and to provide a starting point for champion selection.

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