A Jungle Main's Ganking Tier List

trash sion··2 votes·927 views

As a jungle main, I cringe hard when our mid begs for ganks when laning against a LeBlanc, or when our bot is losing to an Ezreal/Tristana lane, so I thought I'd take the time to make a tier list about what lanes I find easiest to gank, and which ones are hardest. I will take into account the lane in which said champion is usually played, as even escapeless midlaners are hard to gank unless heavily pushed because the lane is so short.

S-Tier refers to a "must-camp" lane, while a C-Tier refers to a "no ganks unless they're pushed to inhib tower" lane.

...and with this, we start the list.

S-Tier: Ahri (pre-6), Amumu, Annie, Ashe, Brand (pre-6), Cassiopeia, Cho'Gath, Darius (pre-6), Diana, Dr. Mundo, Draven, Galio, Gangplank (pre-6), Garen, Illaoi (pre-6), Irelia, Jhin, Jinx, Karthus, Kassadin (pre-6), Kayle (pre-6), Kog'Maw, Malphite (pre-6), Malzahar (pre-6), Maokai, Master Yi (pre-6), Miss Fortune, Mordekaiser, Nasus, Nocturne, Olaf (pre-6), Orianna, Pantheon, Poppy (pre-6), Rumble, Ryze, Shyvana (pre-6), Singed, Sion (pre-6), Sivir (pre-6), Skarner (pre-6), Sona, Soraka, Swain (pre-6), Talon (pre-6), Taric, Teemo, Twisted Fate, Urgot, Varus, Veigar, Vel'Koz, Viktor, Volibear, Warwick, Xerath, Xin Zhao (pre-6), Yasuo (outside of miniom wave), Yorick, Ziggs, Zilean (pre-6), Zyra

A-Tier: Akali, Alistar, Azir (pre-6), Bard (pre-6), Blitzcrank, Braum, Caitlyn, Darius (post-6), Ekko (pre-6), Elise, Evelynn, Fiddlesticks, Fiora, Gragas (pre-6), Graves, Janna (pre-6), Jarvan, Jax, Jayce, Kalista (pre-6), Karma, Katarina, Kennen, Kha'Zix (pre-6), Kindred (pre-6), Lee Sin (pre-6), Leona, Lissandra (pre-6), Lucian, Lulu, Lux, Master Yi (post-6), Malphite (post-6), Morgana, Nami (pre-6), Nautilus, Nidalee, Nunu, Quinn, Renekton, Rengar (pre-6), Riven, Shen, Shyvana (post-6), Sivir (post-6), Skarner (post-6), Swain (post-6), Tahm Kench, Thresh (pre-6), Tryndamere (pre-6), Twitch, Udyr, Vayne (pre-6), Vi, Xin Zhao (post-6), Yasuo (in minion wave)

B-Tier: Aatrox, Azir (post-6), Bard (post-6), Brand (post-6), Corki, Ezreal, Gnar, Gragas (post-6), Heimerdinger, Illaoi (post-6), Janna (post-6), Kalista (post-6), Kayle (post-6), Kindred (post-6), Lee Sin (post-6), Lissandra (post-6), Nami (post-6), Olaf (post-6), Poppy (post-6), Rammus, Rek'Sai, Sejuani, Thresh (post-6), Tristana, Trundle, Tryndamere (post-6), Vayne (post-6), Vladimir, Wukong

C-Tier: Ahri (post-6), Anivia, Ekko (post-6), Fizz, Hecarim, Kassadin (post-6), Kha'Zix (post-6), LeBlanc, Rengar (post-6), Shaco, Sion (post-6), Talon (post-6), Zed, Zilean (post-6)

Let me know if I missed anything, or if you think anything should be changed!

6 Comments

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

I would never gank an annie.

trash sion1 votes

Just a matter of waiting till stun is down

SpookyNeedle1 votes

It's a little difficult to read, I'd make it more column based

Definitely Bait1 votes

The formating is impossibly painful to wade through.. Perhaps something like this?

S Tier: Ahri Amumu Annie Ashe Brand Cassiopeia Chogath Darius Diana DrMundo Draven Galio Gangplank Garen Illaoi Irelia Jhin Jinx Karthus Kassadin Kayle KogMaw Malphite Malzahar Maokai MasterYi MissFortune Mordekaiser Nasus Nocturne Olaf OriannaPantheon Poppy Rumble Ryze Shyvana Singed Sion Sivir Skarner Sona Soraka Swain Talon Taric Teemo TwistedFate Urgot Varus Veigar Velkoz Viktor Volibear Warwick Xerath XinZhao Yasuo Yorick Ziggs Zilean Zyra

S Tier Pre 6: Ahri Brand Darius Gangplank Illaoi Kassadin Kayle Malphite Malzahar Poppy Shyvana Sion Sivir Skarner Swain Talon XinZhao Zilean

Actually.. You need to further break this down the lists are entirely too long to keep track of. In all honestly some sort of website might be necessary to keep track of this. Perhaps with a community voting system and some sort of system using Riot's api to skew champions base on pick / ban / win rate?

There is also no reason to not separate it based on lanes you will actually see things commonly played in. If you have more than 10 champions in a list or so it'll be entirely too hard to keep track of for most people. There should be a S, A, B, and C tier for Top, Mid, Adc, and Support (Ganking the other jungler in their jungle isn't ganking.. It's counter jungling). It might even be necessary to provide further sub categories under each lane.

This is also ignoring the fact that some champions are easier to gank with certain junglers versus others. (Think Udyr vs Yi vs Kindred)

InSingedWeTrust1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Definitely Bait,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=xcx4HjyA,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2016-03-08T18:15:46.488+0000)

This is also ignoring the fact that some champions are easier to gank with certain junglers versus others. (Think Udyr vs Yi vs Kindred)

I think he's going moreso off the kits of the ganked champions, rather than the jungler you're using but I get what you mean.

trash sion1 votes

My bad, I was on mobile when I made this so I couldn't do the champion pictures. Will update soon.

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