I personally love playing
, he has a strong kit and synergizes excellently with Cinderhulk. Build him full tank and you gain access to one of the strongest executes in the whole game. He is also a great split pusher and one of the few true duelist tanks (right there with Nasus).
I'm not a huge fan of
, but that's just because I have terrible luck playing him and just can't seem to get his kit to work for me.
is quite fun, and his team fighting is great. His ganks got hit preeety hard by the preseason nerf to powerball's cooldown, but only in terms of the speed at which you can chain gank, not the actual effectiveness of the gank itself. If you build more like a fighter by buying things like Zhonya's and Abyssal scepter alongside lots of armor+HP, you deal a ton of mixed damage while being tanky as all get out.
I don't play
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so I can't really help your decision about them reliably.
is a sort of "all or nothing" early game champion, where if you don't capitalize on your early damage and superb banks, you become very, very useless to your team. He does best when you have strong hyper scaling laners that you need to snowball who you can trust to play reasonably well once your usefulness begins to decline. I'd say play him at your own risk in solo queue, but with a group of coordinated buddies he can be amazing at getting your team a big early advantage.
is one of my favorites. He is simple to learn, has a lot of cool strategy built in, and has excellent clear, sustain, ganks, and team fighting. If your team already has other reliable tanks, you can play him as a super manly AD assassin and murder the enemy teams ADC with ease.
I'm not 100% sure about, but she seems much better as a top laner just because she is too gold dependent for the current jungle. She is a strong, fast clearing jungler, but her ganks are mediocre and power farming jungle isn't very effective right now.