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Solo queue tier lists, champion counters, team comps and off-meta picks, updated every patch.
Most champions get scary when they finish an item. These ten were already scary, because their damage never really came from the shop.
Percent maximum health, percent missing health, stacks, and raw defensive stats. There's a whole category of champion whose threat level barely moves when you look at their build, and understanding which ones they're changes how you itemize against them.
No crit, no lethality, almost no kill pressure at all, and Yone still walks out of every fight standing. Tank Yone Top turns a duelist into someone the enemy team simply can't finish off.
Nobody is actually building tank Yone in Ranked Solo/Duo right now, because everyone still treats him as a crit or lethality carry by default. But Soul Unbound [E] already gives him a free untargetable window most bruisers only get from a full Zhonya's Hourglass, and stacking real tank stats on top of that built-in safety net turns him into something closer to unkillable than anything a normal Yone build ever manages.
So how does this actually work?
Patch 26.16 is a big one. League Classic gets its first major content update, bringing three brand new old champions in Akali, Kennen, and Shen, along with new placeholder runes and a wave of era-appropriate balance changes. Over in the main game, Riot is cracking down on early support roaming and bot lane mages, retuning ADC magic resistance, support role quest progress, and jungle pet scaling to open the door for more diverse team comps. Azir, Gwen, and Kennen all pick up buffs, Bel'Veth gets reined in after a scorching scaling curve, and Camille, Nasus, and Poppy get reworked power curves rather than straight buffs or nerfs. Ten items get retuned to push AD fighters and mid lane mages back into balance, Arena brings back Bravery Wednesdays alongside a hefty champion tuning pass, and ARAM: Mayhem adds two new item-upgrading Augments built for fighters. Top it off with the new Faerie Court skin line for Bel'Veth, Gwen, and Lulu, and there's a ton to dig into this patch.
Patch 26.16 is a big one. League Classic gets its first major content update, bringing three brand new old champions in Akali, Kennen, and Shen, along with new placeholder runes and a wave of era-appropriate balance changes. Over in the main game, Riot is cracking down on early support roaming and bot lane mages, retuning ADC magic resistance, support role quest progress, and jungle pet scaling to open the door for more diverse team comps. Azir, Gwen, and Kennen all pick up buffs, Bel'Veth gets reined in after a scorching scaling curve, and Camille, Nasus, and Poppy get reworked power curves rather than straight buffs or nerfs. Ten items get retuned to push AD fighters and mid lane mages back into balance, Arena brings back Bravery Wednesdays alongside a hefty champion tuning pass, and ARAM: Mayhem adds two new item-upgrading Augments built for fighters. Top it off with the new Faerie Court skin line for Bel'Veth, Gwen, and Lulu, and there's a ton to dig into this patch.
Buffs: Azir, Gwen, Kennen
Nerfs: Bel'Veth
Tweaks: Camille, Nasus, Poppy
Nobody on this team needs to catch you twice. One knock up starts a chain of crowd control that only stops when somebody dies.
Patch 26.1 put base critical strike damage back to 200%, and that quietly changed how every crit build in the game works. Here's the math, why 50% crit is worth more than you think, and why the last few percent are worth the most.
Riot talked mostly about League Classic this week, and the guy running it posted the entire next patch on X at one in the morning.
Old Akali is coming back, towers get buffed, and someone finally explained the matchmaking. Here's the week in one read.
Four years of League where walking past an unwarded bush was a decision with a death attached to it.
Old Rengar didn't out-play you. He picked a bush, waited, and removed you from the game in the time it took your screen to finish showing him arriving.
Viktor doesn't need to kill you in lane. He needs the lane to belong to him, and Gravity Field [W] takes it one circle at a time.
Laning against Viktor is a slow eviction. There's a circle where you can't stand, a line you can't cross to farm, and a storm that follows you afterward. He can also be picked up bot lane now, which means twice as many players get to learn this the hard way. The good news is that he has no dash, no blink and no escape, and every answer to him starts there.
Check out our top Viktor counters below for more information on how to beat him!
