So what champions are in the current meta?

NightWolfXVI·4/2/2015, 11:42:19 PM·1 votes·971 views

So I haven't played since like preseason 4 or something crazy like that. (We are in season 5 right?) If it tell you how long, it was when Elise jungle was still considered viable. Anyways its been a while and as much as I tried not to I'm finally coming back to LoL so I was wondering what champions are considered all around viable in the current meta. I'm mostly interested in the junglers and top laners because ADC and support doesn't really change and I don't have a lot of the current mid-laners...

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Nefarious Yordle4/3/2015, 1:26:20 AM2 votes

Right now, I believe there's no champion tier list on the face of the earth or the internet that has been consistently on-point with the meta. So, instead of Googling "champion tier list" we have to sadly dig deeper. The way to do this is to use two main tools. The first is probuilds.net, so you can look up all sorts of statistics and facts about recent professional game-play in SoloQ. Track down what champs have the highest pick rates (and usually correspondingly the highest win rates) and what builds pro players use. Then, make sure to put this into a bit broader of a context if you want to by watching tournament or challenger-player streams. Besides from these whacky Europeans and their Aatrox top-laners, LCS picks are usually top-tier meta picks.

Example: toplane champions: Lissandra and Hecarim > Gnar, Maokai, Sion > Riven, Kennen, Aatrox?!?!?! > cheese toplaners like Rengar, Pantheon > anything else - oh, and Cho'Gath is moving its way up, currently being played as often as, say, Sion Any professional toplaner right now can play Lissandra, has recently been learning hecarim, knows how to play Gnar and Maokai and maybe Sion, and if you're a crazy European pro then also Kennen and Aatrox. No tier list I know of will tell you this, so you're forced to look up the stats and find out for yourself for any given role you want to play!

Sohleks4/3/2015, 5:31:02 PM2 votes

My opinion on what the strongest most meta picks are currently... This is not everything that's good, just sort of what the meta looks like.

top: Hecarim Irelia Lulu Maokai Rumble Sion, honorable mentions Diana Fiora Fizz Gnar Gragas JarvanIV Malphite Nasus mid: Ahri Cassiopeia Chogath Diana Leblanc Lissandra Urgot Viktor Vladimir Xerath honorable mentions, Annie Azir Corki Jayce Katarina KogMaw Lulu Morgana Orianna TwistedFate Zed Ziggs jungle: Gragas Nidalee Sejuani Volibear Zac Vi honorable mentions, Amumu Chogath Fiddlesticks Fizz LeeSin Pantheon RekSai Shyvana

henrythai4/3/2015, 8:09:20 PM2 votes

Top: Maokai, Lulu, Hecarim Jungle: Sejuani, Nidalee, Reksai Mid: Ahri, LeBlanc, Lissandra

nomeL4/2/2015, 11:43:47 PM1 votes

Tanks. Tanks tanks tanks, because of the new jungler item enchantment cinderhulk. For example, mega tanks like amumu, sejuani and nautilus are very good right now

Rootworth4/3/2015, 1:49:04 AM1 votes

It feels like almost every champion right now is viable. Some may be a little harder to do as good with; but honestly, we've all seen a vast variety of champions in every lane/role so far this entire season (Poppy is a viable pick) in normals and ranked.

Only Play Darius4/4/2015, 12:20:36 AM1 votes

Playing anyone other than Zed mid is going to make your life miserable.

Also ranged tops are a thing now so if you want to be a tank you are forced to go jg. Which isnt exactly bad because cinderhulk is amazing.