League of Legends Guides, Tier Lists and Strategy

Top lane is one long duel with no help coming, which makes it the single easiest lane to ruin somebody's game in with a pick they weren't expecting.

Nobody gets counter-picked harder than a top laner, and nobody has less recourse when it happens. That's what these ten are for. None of them is what the enemy locked their bruiser to fight, and most of them turn a lane the enemy thought they'd won at champion select into twenty minutes of being unable to walk forward.

Flash is up, your health bar is fine, and the fight is already over. These ten champions turned running away into a formality.

Most fights in League end because somebody decided to leave. That decision is the single most powerful thing a losing player has, and these ten champions were built specifically to take it away from you.

Most League champions are a person with a weapon. These ten are a tree, a cat, a space dragon and whatever Bard is.

Weird doesn't mean bad here. Every one of these breaks a rule the rest of the roster follows, and a few of them are genuinely strong because of it.

Mid lane is the shortest lane on the map and the closest to everything, which is exactly why the pick nobody prepared for does so much damage there.

Every one of these ten gets typed at in champion select. All ten of them also beat the thing the enemy actually locked, which is usually a squishy mage standing in the open for twenty minutes.