What do you guys think is the strongest role in the game?

ADC's, mandatory since 2009

Support... ofc. How else could it be after so many buff to make the role appealing ?[sg-lulu]

Apdo who is arguably the world's best solo queue player says support is the strongest and mid is the second strongest

Right-clickers

LMAO mid has no votes so far and support is leading in votes..........but yet a lot of games i notice people are playing mids as support.

Brand, Lux, Zoe, Annie, Veigar, Vel Koz...get back to your lanes REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

We know which role is the strongest.

Support is the most powerful role throughout a game. Their gold to impact ratio is so skewed towards them that you can effect skirmishes and teamfights even when you have 0 gold simply because a ton of support abilities scale infinitely based on your opponents gold, and not yours. That's how broken this role is.

ADCs are the most powerful late game, they're the most powerful mid game with a fed support. Highest sustained damage by far, cheap itemization also makes them incredibly powerful at 2 items with weaknesses that can be made up for by a e girl health mule support.

Jungle is the most impactful role early game. Isn't even debatable, you hit lvl 2 before laners and 3 before laners with infinite mana and a perma slow that applies true damage. If you win the jungle you control all vision and the ability for enemy solo laners to play aggressive (as in they can't).

Mid is the new support role in the game, being the one who decides jungle invades and bot lane skirmishes. And riot wonders why sitting back and wave clearing is the default for a lot of mid laners. It's because you have to establish priority so you can roam with your jungle/to bot, else the entire game is just a coin flip because nobody has the freakin damage to pierce through a Janna shield + ult alone.

Top lane is worthless unless you pick some hypercarry who can just win lane then melt the paper thin towers split pushing. Your entire lane can be literally decided by the 3 min jungle gank and because of sheer proximity to the most influential lane, bot, you're the least impactful role.

Support then jungle then everyone else.

Adcs are impactful but they have no agency early-mid game, they are too reliant on their team.

Jungler.

Level two after taking red buff threatening a level 2 gank. Nothing is stronger than that.

You gotta define your metrics, man. Are we talking about 1v1 strength (Top), ability to carry games 1v9 (Mid), how easy they are to climb with (Supp), or how much they impact other roles for good or for worse (Jung), or raw killing power (ADC)?

The only metric that's really fair to all roles is "how fun are they", because that takes into account all the other forms of strength that players may be drawn towards. But I doubt that's how most people are voting.

Or if you don't like conflating fun and strength, I'd argue that Mid is the strongest because it has a several different strengths: 1v1 strength, relatively low reliance on other teammates, high impact on other roles (being able to roam), and decently high damage for whatever you're objective is. (ADC has the highest damage and perhaps are easier to climb with, but they are way more reliant on other teammates and they can't really roam. So they get second place, IMO.)

And yet, I voted for Support, because I figured that climbing easily is probably the most important form of strength, at least in a Solo Queue mind-set. And they can have decent impact across the map via wards and occasionally roaming, AND their power isn't dependent on farm/kills/items as much.

So yeah like, which role is strongest depends on your goals. If you want to know which role is the best to put Doublelift, it'd probably be Mid (if we ignore the year he would need to learn a new role, and we ignore his personal preferences). At the highest skill level, Mid lane has always been the biggest carry position. If you just want to know how to get from Silver II to Gold V, Support is probably the best option. And if you just want to have the most fun, then it's up to you what you find the most reliably impactful/fun overall.

Strongest influence in the game? Jungle because you can influence 3 lanes without detriment to your own and you basically decide whether or not your team gets objectives.

Strongest carry potential? Support because you basically decide bot lane 80% of the time without outside interference, and you can become a second jungler if your lane is snowballed enough. You also have vision control AND if you peel well in teamfights you can single handedly win the fight. But this is only if you played well in lane initially, so support can potentially be more influential than the jungler, but the jungler innately has more influence from the start of the game.

Mage supports do so much damage that marksmen are forced to take Footwork or you die in lane, as well as often doing more damage than the ADC if you play someone like Brand or Zyra. Everyone wants to say ADC is busted but mage supports can very easily do more damage than the carry, but why would we mention that.

"Damage dealt doesn't matter" then why cry about ADCs doing damage if they don't even do the most?

Not to mention support wins lane phase.

Potentially jungle, but usually ADC (assuming rest of your team, particularly the support, is baseline competent for your elo).

It really depends on what part of the game we're talking about.

Jungle is great early and decent later.

Support is great early and good later (just can't solo carry later unless you play brand or something)

Adc is good mid (great when ahead) and godlike late.

Mid varies a lot, but generally is good throughout.

Top is ok early and great mid.

So I would say either support or jungle since the early game is so important.

And I'd probably put support in first considering they are really good early but still scale later with thier utility.

Every team needs a Power Top. [zombie-nunu-bummed]

Jungle and mid, since they are the ones with the highest roaming potential. If you have a good jungle or mid, they'll win every lane, not just theirs.

adc circle jerk is hot. Without supports, adcs are garbage. The answer is either jungle or support.

The nexus.

Influence or stats? If we're talking influence then the jungler, if we're talking stats then the ADC.

Don't get me wrong, ADC is strong, comes online a bit to soon currently, and has huge impact on a teams win %s once they do turn on, yet on the whole its a pretty restricted role. Traditionally we see like 2-5 champions in rotation for the role enjoing FOTM treatment and many of the ADC options falls out of style with any significant item changes. Simply put when only a small majority of that role enjoy viability I just cant endorse it as the most powerful.

So my vote goes to support and my logic is as follows.

1. Class diversity, The class has a bit of everything and your able to pick and choose what's needed for a team comp or counter.
2. Gold independence, By far the least gold reliant role yet able to remain relevant to a matches outcome.
3. Compensation for a bad ADC, Many supports enjoy a stronger Early game then adcs, this allows them to influence lane phase more then the adc.
4. Vision, No seriously vision is huge in lol, do not undervalue vision score and control.
5. Rewarded for dedication , Bunch of derps still refuse to learn at least 1 champion in all roles, support is a common auto fill. You now have a advantage for knowing your shit and the enemy team is often behind on 40% of their players

The 2nd role I feel is probably Jungle or mid depending on the meta, when farm jungles are a thing Mid roam becomes a deciding factor, otherwise jungles can decide lanes with well done ganks.

i laugh when people think that adc is stronger than support

adcs are busted sure and so are their itemization but supports are many many many times more influential and powerful

ADCs dominate the poll, i wonder why riot, i fucking wonder why....

It's easy to say "Oh ADC's are strongest!!!!!" In terms of stats, yeah. They're carries, that's their job.

Jungle, mid, and top all have carries too.

Botlane may be saturated with carries, but those are hardly the only ones.

Irelia, Fiora, GP, and Jayce in top. Azir, Vlad, Cass, and Ryze in mid. Shyv, Yi, Graves, and Jax in jungle.

Any of these champions has the potential to carry just as hard as an ADC.

Anyone that voted Jungle is actually legally retarded. If it was most influential maybe you could make a case... but junglers are weak after level 4. What about not scaling well and getting less gold then ADC and the 2 solo laners says powerful?

Role Tiers ADC S+ Mid S- Sup A Jungle C Top C