Which Champion Should You Main or One Trick?

Which champion should you main in League of Legends?

Take the quiz at the top of this page. Pick your lane, answer three questions and we'll name three champions, scored on 241 tier lists going back to 2013. If you flex, tap more than one lane and we'll look for champions who hold up in all of them.

What's the best champion to one trick?

By our own thirteen year record, top lane is Malphite, jungle is Warwick, mid lane is Ahri, bot lane is Jinx, support is Blitzcrank. Every one of them has spent more of League's history worth playing than anyone else in the lane, which is the only thing that matters if you're committing a season to one champion. The top ten for every lane is on the board lower down this page.

Is one tricking still worth it?

It is if you pick a champion who survives patches. Every list of one trick picks tells you its champions stay good; almost none of them show you the record. We read back every tier list this site has published since 2013, so you can see which champions actually held up and which ones had two good patches and a decade of nothing.

What actually makes a champion worth maining?

Not which champion is strongest this week. Which one is still going to be worth the hours you put in a year from now. A champion who was broken for two patches and forgettable for ten years is a bad champion to build a season around, and that's what the meta score is built to show.

How the score works

We read back every tier list this site has published since 2013 and pulled the God Tier, Tier 1 and Tier 2 picks out of all five lanes. God Tier counts three points, Tier 1 two, Tier 2 one. A champion's meta score is what they earned against what they'd have earned sitting in God Tier the whole time, so 100 means God Tier every single patch and roughly 66 means Tier 1 throughout. That rewards staying good over spiking once, on purpose.

Why do the bars have a red stretch in the middle?

We published nothing between patch 14.9 in May 2024 and patch 26.13 in July 2026, and every bar marks that stretch rather than quietly closing the gap. The full tier list archive has who topped every lane on every patch, and the live Solo Queue tier list has where all 170 odd champions stand on the patch running right now, which is the one this page is scored against.

Where do mobility and crowd control come from?

Not from the tier lists. They are read out of Riot's own ability text in Data Dragon: an ability counts toward mobility if it dashes, blinks or grants move speed, and toward crowd control at the weight of the heaviest thing it applies, so a stun counts for more than a slow and a champion who stuns on three abilities counts for more than one who stuns on one. Both are then scored against the rest of your lane rather than the whole roster, because the most mobile support and the most mobile jungler are not the same bar.

Can you main one champion in more than one lane?

A few. Tap top, mid and bot together and the answer is Yasuo, the only champion in thirteen years of these lists with a real record in all three. Most champions who look flexible turn out to have a real career in one lane and a handful of off-role games in the others.

Does this use win rates?

Only as a tie break. The ranking is built from where champions actually placed on our own tier lists over thirteen years, which is a judgement no win rate table keeps a record of. For where every champion stands on the patch running right now, read the live Solo Queue tier list.