2017 Best Champions Tier List - Solo Queue Ranked Ladder Climbing - Patch 7.17 Update

God Tier List

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 4

• Aatrox [Tier 2 Top] - Aatrox is currently played so little that he's actually dropped off most statistical sites including champion.gg and op.gg as a champion. Despite that, he's not even that weak, especially compared to Ornn in his current state. That being said, I think he's playable as a top laner, and capable of dishing out some surprising plays. Then again, considering nobody's seen him on the rift for ages, anything he does could be surprising.
• Ahri [Tier 1 Mid] - Ahri's decline this last patch seems largely a result of higher presence from duskblade wielding assassins coupled with an influx of some of her other heaviest counters. She's certainly still a very strong champion however, and this should keep her off the nerf bat for a bit.
• Kassadin [God Tier Mid] - In his current state, Kassadin works well as a strong roaming assassin that trades well in lane and works well as a late-game hypercarry. He's very safe and can consistently snowball games, but just needs to be a bit safer pre-6 to prevent from getting camped by the enemy jungler.
• Kayn [Tier 1 Jungle] - As a ganker, Kayn's potential angles are incredibly good from getting in without being spotted. If he can get an early lead and quick duskblade, he can snowball each lane before team fighting comes up. However, if he plays relatively evenly, he ends up doing poorly during late-game team fights as enemy carries bring him to their peel during Kayn's ultimate. He plays a little similar to Lee Sin in this respect, and to succeed consistently with him you still need to be a good jungler instinct-wise.
• Ornn [Tier 3 Top] - Ornn seems a bit underpowered at the moment, and putting him on the team often makes your teammates consider rushing the upgraded items that he provides in the shop. This is often not the best choice in terms of gold efficiency and ends up with his team wasting gold on items of scaling value too early in the game. As a laner he's not all that bad, but putting him in your game simply makes your teammates do some sub-optimal things.
• Sivir [Tier 1 Marksman] - Sivir in her current state is interesting. Professional players know that her main power lies in her ability to auto-attack minions to bounce her damage onto teams via her Ricochet (W). However, many solo queue players end up building things like Statikk Shiv and one-shotting the minion wave, greatly reducing her ability to attack the enemy team at a safe range and instead relying on her extremely short auto range for damage.
• Sona [God Tier Support] - There's a lot of hate on Sona as a result of her lack of early game crowd-control and high mana costs on her heal. However, her mid to late game becomes absolutely absurd, and her ability to AOE proc Ardent Censer ends up incredibly good in team fights.
• Talon [God Tier Mid] - Talon's continuously putting out incredible numbers lately as a result of his synergy with Duskblade. While his trading power has always been excellent, his trading power post Duskblade simply becomes known as assassinating power. His roaming is also comparable to Kassadin and Kayn's, and can snowball games quickly.
• Tristana [God Tier Marksman] - Tristana's found a lot of success lately ever since Caitlyn was nerfed. She plays similarly in lane as an offensive marksman, and is an excellent counter to Draven via her ultimate's ability to make him misposition an axe. 

• The purpose of this list is for discussion and to provide a starting point for champion selection.

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