The League of Legends Tier List for Solo Queue (Always Current):
Discover the latest League of Legends Solo Queue Tier List, Updated for Patch 26.17. Updated every patch with champion rankings, meta analysis, and explanations to help you climb faster.
Season 16 - Patch 26.17Last Updated: August 25, 2026Early Read
Patch 26.17 Highlights
- Nasus loses top lane. Yone steps into God Tier beside Garen and Malphite
- Graves is out of the jungle after a double scaling cut, and Viego takes the slot
- Xerath comes down in mid lane and Yasuo goes up, with Fizz and Viktor unmoved
- Irelia and LeBlanc each climb a tier on scaling buffs
- Bot lane and support are untouched. Caitlyn, Jinx and Twitch hold, and so do Leona, Thresh and Seraphine
God Tier List
Highest Influence | Good In Almost Every Situation | Easiest to Gain LP With
Tier 1
Strong/Preferred Choices | Good Effort to Benefit Ratio | Works Well In Solo Queue
Top Lane
Irelia
Nasusi
Teemo
Mordekaiser↗
Illaoi
Sett
Yorick
Darius
Jax
Aatrox
Dr. Mundo
Tryndamere
Singed
Jungle
Gravesi
Warwick
Wukong
Shaco
Sylas
Rammus
Kayn
Naafiri
Lee Sin
Master Yi- Teemo
Lillia
Mid Lane
Bot Lane
Support
Tier 2
Viable/Balanced Choices | Common In Solo Queue | Needs Practice To Get Good
Top Lane
Cho'Gath
Trundle
Renekton
Gangplank
Urgot
Yasuo
Akali
Olaf
Fiora
Kayle
Pantheon
Ambessa
Heimerdinger- Warwick
Jungle
- Cho'Gath
- Trundle
- Jax
Amumu
Vi- Darius
Jarvan IV
Bel'Veth- Dr. Mundo
- Nasus
- Mordekaiser
Fizz
Ekko
Zyra
Talon- Tryndamere
Sejuani
Kha'Zix
Mid Lane
- Irelia
Aurelion Sol- Akali
- Naafiri
Hwei
Diana
Katarina
Lissandra
Garen
Malphite
Morgana- Pantheon
Vladimir
Twisted Fate- Heimerdinger
Brand
Bot Lane
Smolder
Miss Fortune
Veigar
Lux
Ziggs
Jhin- Yasuo
Samira
Senna
Siviri
Support
Pyke- Zyra
Milio
Tahm Kench
Vel'Koz
Soraka- Teemo
- Shaco
- Pantheon
Alistar
Rell
Swain
Zilean
Tier 3
Needs Higher Skill or Knowledge | Counterpicks
Top Lane
Vayne
Volibear
Camille- Tahm Kench
Ornn
Gwen
Poppy- Brand
Shen
Jayce
Zaahen- Sylas
Malzahar
Sion
Jungle
- Malphite
Xin Zhao- Aatrox
Zac
Evelynn- Diana
- Volibear
Udyr- Gwen
Ivern
Nunu & Willump
Zed
Hecarim
Elise
Mid Lane
Bot Lane
- Hwei
Ashe
Xayah
Draven- Brand
- Katarina↗
Nilah
Aphelios
Lucian- Aurelion Sol↗
Support
Tier 4
Low Benefit Based On Effort Used
Top Lane
Kled- Wukong
Kennen- Swain
Gnar- Master Yi
Riven
Quinn
K'Sante
Gragas
Rumble- Vladimir
Varus
Ryze
Jungle
Mid Lane
Kassadin- Sion
Cassiopeia- Gangplank
- Ryze
Tristana- Jayce
Orianna
Azir- Cho'Gath
- Smolder
Taliyah
Ezreal
Bot Lane
- Ezreal
Kog'Maw
Mel
Zeri
Yunara
Syndra
Kalista
Corki- Varus
Support
Taric- Mel
Maokai
Neeko- Veigar
Zoe- Ashe
- Malphite
- Jarvan IV
Anivia
FiddleSticks↗
Twitch- Miss Fortune
New Player LoL Tier List
Good Beginner Friendly Picks
Top Lane
- Malphite
- Garen
Jungle
- Warwick
- Nasus
Patch 26.17 Tier List Update Summary
LoL Tier List Champion Explanations
Yone [God Tier Top]
Yone keeps half of the crit damage penalty he used to pay, which reads as housekeeping until you notice it lands on exactly the long game he was already trying to reach. He was Tier 1 top before this patch, and the champion sitting above him just got trimmed. Two things pointed the same way at once.
Viego [God Tier Jungle]
Viego is in God Tier because Graves isn't. The patch never mentions him, and that's the whole argument. He was already good enough to take the slot the moment somebody vacated it, and he needs nothing else to go his way.
Yasuo [God Tier Mid]
Halving the crit damage penalty is a straight damage increase on every crit Yasuo lands, and it pays him for the scaling game rather than the early snowball. Mid lane has rewarded snowballs for a while now. This is the patch that starts rewarding patience.
Nasus [Tier 1 Top]
Nasus was the best top laner in the game for exactly one patch. The lifesteal on his passive comes down a step, and Sundered Sky, which most of the lane builds into, loses health and attack damage in the same notes. He still farms his way to the same place. He just spends longer being killable on the way there.
Garen [God Tier Top]
Garen is here for the same reason he's always here. There's nothing to get wrong. No mana, no combo to learn, and enough burst and movement speed to run down most of the lane bullies sitting in Tier 1 below him. If you want a top laner you can pick up cold and still climb with, it's this one.
Malphite [God Tier Top]
Malphite is back in God Tier, and he's the pick that ends games rather than the one that wins lanes. By his second item he soaks an entire team's damage, and one good ultimate has decided more solo queue fights than any amount of clever play around it. The lane itself is quiet and mostly safe against the auto-attackers ahead of him, which is the point. You're not trying to win top, you're trying to be the reason the next fight lasts three seconds.
Nocturne [God Tier Jungle]
Nocturne is the most map pressure any jungler has right now. Whenever his ultimate is up the enemy team has to treat the entire map like a fight could start on top of them, and most teams at this level don't. He converts an early lead into a finished game faster than anything else in the role, and he doesn't need his laners to set anything up first.
Briar [God Tier Jungle]
Briar punishes a team that hasn't worked out what it's doing yet. She commits harder than anything else in the role, and at this level the enemy usually doesn't collapse on her fast enough to make that a problem. She heals through her own clear too, so she's rarely the jungler who turns up to a fight already at half health. The games where she's wrong are over quickly, and you'll know which ones those are early.
Shyvana [God Tier Jungle]
Shyvana is the low-effort pick in this tier. She clears fast, nothing in the clear can go wrong, and she arrives at her power spike on schedule even in the games where the early map falls apart around her. Her all-in doesn't care how spread out the enemy team is. She's stronger in our divisions than at the very top of the ladder, which is worth knowing rather than worth avoiding her over.
Graves [Tier 1 Jungle]
Graves had been living off a run of buffs that were never actually aimed at him, and this patch takes ten points of bonus attack damage scaling off both halves of his Q. That was the reason one build cleared camps and won skirmishes at the same time. He's still a strong jungler, but he isn't the one deciding the game anymore.
Xerath [Tier 1 Mid]
Xerath's nerf is small enough that Riot called it light, and on its own it wouldn't move him at all. What moved him is everyone else. Three of the mid laners underneath him got buffed in the same patch, and standing still while the room gets stronger is its own kind of fall.
Fizz [God Tier Mid]
Fizz is the answer to a mid lane full of mages who want to stand still and scale. He's untouchable at the exact moment everything gets thrown at him, so the burst mages who are supposed to delete him don't, and he doesn't need a lead to decide a side lane skirmish. He's the hardest pick in this tier to play, and the games where he falls behind early are genuinely rough.
Viktor [God Tier Mid]
Viktor is the safest scaling pick in the role and nothing in the game teamfights better once he's online. The item changes that pushed mages out of bot lane paid for themselves up here, where he was already the pick you take when you want the late game. He isn't helpless before that either, which is what separates him from every other mage who wants three items before he matters.
Caitlyn [God Tier Bot]
Caitlyn wins the lane rather than the game, and this is the patch where winning the lane is enough. She out-ranges every mage that used to bully her, she builds a zone around an objective that the enemy support has to walk into, and she gets value out of games where you never snowball at all. She does still fall off, so the long ones are where the two names beside her overtake her.
Jinx [God Tier Bot]
Jinx is the cleanest thing our day one read got right. Marksmen picked up 3 base magic resistance this patch and Berserker's Greaves went from 25 to 30 percent attack speed, which is exactly what she needed to stop losing lane to mages. After that she does what she always does. One kill turns into every reset, and then she's unkillable for the rest of the fight.
Twitch [God Tier Bot]
Twitch is the scariest thing in bot lane when nobody's warding, and nobody's warding. He can walk out of a lane he's losing and turn up somewhere no one is looking, and once a fight starts he isn't trading with anyone, he's deleting the back line. That's worth more in the divisions this list is built for than at the top of the ladder, and unlike most picks in that bracket, he holds up in both.
Sivir [Tier 2 Bot]
Sivir was the surprise of the early read and a fuller week of games hasn't backed it up. That isn't a warning about her. She still clears waves more easily than anything else in the lane, her laning phase is very hard to go badly wrong in, and she's a balanced, perfectly draftable pick to take into a ranked game. She just isn't beating the three names above her in the role.
Seraphine [Tier 1 Bot]
Seraphine is holding up remarkably well for a champion this patch was written to push out of the lane. Marksmen picked up magic resistance against her and her items got pulled toward mid, and she's still at the top of Tier 1 down there. Nobody wants to fight her anywhere narrow and she out-sustains the lane phase that was meant to lose her. She's God Tier as a support on top of that, which is where most people should be playing her.
Leona [God Tier Support]
Leona starts fights and that's the whole job. She doesn't need her marksman to do anything clever first, which counts for more in solo queue than any amount of upside, and by late game her ultimate is a threat the enemy team has to respect across the whole map. She works with every marksman above her in God Tier.
Thresh [God Tier Support]
Thresh does more per game than any other support and asks for more back. One hook starts the fight, and on the ones that miss the lantern still drags home a marksman who went too far. Even his crowd control on a bad engage hands the problem back to the other team. He's harder to play than Leona and he decides more of the games he's in.
- The purpose of this list is for discussion and to provide a starting point for champion selection.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best champion in Patch 26.17?
Yone, on the early read. He keeps more of his crit damage this patch and he inherits the top lane slot Nasus just lost, which is the rare case of a champion being helped twice by the same set of notes. Viego and Yasuo are the other two moving into God Tier. See the God Tier List above for the full role-by-role breakdown.
Is this the final tier list for Patch 26.17?
No. This is the early read, built in the first days of Patch 26.17, so some of these rows are still soft. We rebuild it on this same page as the games pile up, and the updated read lands later in the patch. Nothing moves to a new address when it does.
Where does this tier list get its data?
From our own ranked solo queue match data. We collect games directly rather than reading a third-party site, which is why a few placements here move before the wider consensus does. We also count a much wider slice of the ladder than most lists do, Silver through Challenger instead of Emerald and above, so the rankings describe the games most people are actually in. That data is read alongside hands-on solo queue experience rather than published as a raw win rate ranking.
What does God Tier mean?
God Tier is reserved for champions with the highest influence on a game who are good in almost every situation, and are generally the easiest picks to gain LP with. It's kept intentionally exclusive, usually three or four picks per role at most. See Tier List Descriptions below for the full breakdown of every tier.
How often is the tier list updated?
Every League of Legends patch, and more than once within a patch. The hub page you're reading is updated in place, so the URL never changes. Bookmark it instead of a specific patch's post.
Why doesn't this match win-rate websites?
Win rate is one input, not the only one. This list also weighs pick rate, high-ELO and professional play, and hands-on solo queue experience, and win rate alone is never the end-all criteria for a champion's tier. Because we collect our own games across a wider range of divisions, a pick that's climbing will often show up here before it shows up elsewhere, and a champion that only looks strong in the top few percent of the ladder won't get carried up this list by it.
Is this tier list for Solo Queue?
Yes, this is specifically a Solo Queue tier list, not a professional-play or ARAM tier list.
Which ranks does this tier list apply to?
Silver through Challenger, and that's the actual range of games behind it rather than an estimate. A lot of tier lists only count Emerald and above, which is roughly one ranked player in six, and that cut quietly favors champions who reward mechanical execution over champions who just win games. Ours is weighted toward the average experienced player instead. It's still usable at the top of the ladder, but the higher you climb the more matchups come down to champion-specific mastery rather than general tier strength.
League of Legends Tier List Descriptions
Tier 1: Consistently strong with a real advantage over most other champions. Even a rough game still leaves their team a real shot at a comeback through their late-game utility.
Tier 2: The balanced tier Riot generally designs around: strong picks with real weaknesses, not overpowered.
Tier 3: Still capable, but need more snowballing to get rolling, and an early lead can still be turned with a mistake or two.
Tier 4: Underpowered relative to their effort. They need an early lead to function, and a comeback with one of these champions behind is rare.
Updates
- 26.17: Early read. Nasus, Graves and Xerath all come out of God Tier after the patch trimmed them, and Yone, Viego and Yasuo take those slots. Irelia and LeBlanc climb a tier on scaling buffs. Full Patch 26.17 patch notes recap here.
- 26.16: Updated read, built on a full week of games. Nasus takes top lane outright and Malphite joins him and Garen in God Tier. Mid lane settles on Xerath, Fizz and Viktor with Malzahar at the head of Tier 1. The God Tier jungle runs four wide under Nocturne, Briar, Shyvana and Graves. Bot lane goes back to the marksmen as Caitlyn, Jinx and Twitch, and support holds unchanged from the early read. Full Patch 26.16 analysis here.
- 26.15: Updated read. Warwick and Shyvana take over the jungle and Mordekaiser holds top lane after surviving his nerf, reversing our early call. Malzahar leads mid, Xayah separates herself at the top of bot lane, and Bel'Veth climbs most of the way back out of the bottom of the jungle. First list built on our own ranked match data, covering Silver through Challenger rather than Emerald and above. Full Patch 26.15 analysis here.
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