EB24 about League of Legends #3 Current meta, Patch 9.22 - from the Booster perspective

With so many changes that come with this new patch 9.22, we've decided to gather our best boosters to provide you some inside information from their perspective about this meta, here are the results of their opinions for each role!

• Top Lane

Top lane is the longest lane in the game, so that makes it very vulnerable to ganks. To be honest, it's very hard to avoid ganks when you're playing top lane. In the early game, if the enemy jungle starts red (they usually do it because of the Krugs clear) and the enemy top laner is on the red team, this means that the enemy's red will be on the top side of the map.

When that happens, you should just push the lane and ward the tri bush if the pixel top brush is warded. If not, placing a ward on the river would be a better choice. 

If the enemy's red is on the bot side of the map, you can just ward the edge of the blue. Junglers are usually aiming for Krugs so being on the red team is better for you when playing top.

“But what happens after that?”

After being sure that you are safe from the enemy jungle, now you can focus on your non-stop trades because the enemy jungler won't be on the top lane for at least 4 minutes. 

You should always try to push and get the healing plant that is on the river. This plant makes your laning phase much easier. Also, ward the enemy's Gromp after fully pushing the top lane. At this point in the meta, I don't suggest roaming since Top lane has been relying on pushing and trading while not get ganked. 

“Which champions are the best on Top lane now?”

Renekton and Jax is my number one picks right now. 

Renekton never loses the lane except against Jayce. Also, because his trades are simple and he is over buffed. Jax is also overpowered with Shojin and has an OK laning phase. 

My tier 2 pick is Jayce because he counters most of the ranged champs and can build Kleptomancy. His scaling is OK and still, he is the most lane dominant top laner in the game.

• Jungler

For jungler, the best champions at the moment are Ekko and Kha'zix. 

Ekko is very OP in every way and his kit is perfect to be a jungler right now. His only weakness is the early game's clear speed. Here are the best runes for him. [1]

Illustration [1]: Runes for Ekko Jungler

Kha'Zix is stepping up because of his R and W, those abilities evolved are the description of OPness. 6-second stealth and +%80 slow are not acceptable in any other way. His weakness is his early game, other than that he has 0 weaknesses. He is also the rare case of a scaling jungler. Here are the runes we think you should do. [2]

Illustration [2]: Runes for Kha'Zix Jungler

But there are more champions that we think are in a very good spot now, they're: Shyvanna and Dr. Mundo. 

We'll also, leave you below, what in our boosters opinion, is the tier list for the best Junglers. [3]

Illustration [3]: Tier list for Junglers

• Mid Lane

The patch 9.22 didn't bring us a lot of changes in the current meta for mid. There were only a few adjustments that made a few champions more balanced like Kayle and Nautilus.

On solo queue, the meta has been quite consistent since a couple of patches ago. The most important thing about the lane is roaming and making pressure on the map. 

To do so, your pick has to be quick at pushing and needs to have some ability that helps you gank other lanes or invade the enemy jungle. That is why we usually chose champions with one target focus/burst such as Malzahar, Syndra or Fizz. The quicker you push the lane and give your jungler/bot lane some advantage in the map, the more benefits you get.

Mid is the shortest lane on the map, so the ward coverage is very important. The best wards you can place are at the “pixel” bush and a deep pink ward that can give you information about the enemy jungler.

From my perspective, this is the tier list for mid lane. [4]

Illustration [4]: Tier list for Mid Lane

• AD Carry

Riot has been buffing ADC's since a few patches ago. But of course, if you saw Worlds, you can tell which are the best ADC's for this meta! If you didn't, I can tell you right now, they are Xayah and Kai'Sa!

As the meta has changed and forced players to roam more instead of farming and scaling, bot dive based on the mid/jungle priority is very important now. Especially when this bot dive leads to a dragon, tower plates and even lane swapping with the top laner. 

ADC’s are now having a crucial commission for burst damage and mobility. As you all know, burst damage is for killing one target fast while diving, and mobility for evading those dives. Unfortunately, there are not many champions who are suitable for both, which obligate us to play only Xayah and Kai'Sa.

One might say “But Ezreal and Tristana also have the best mobility!”. Yes, they both got a fair enough skill to run away from dives or ganks, but they’re way out of the meta now. For Ezreal, Riot had recently nerfed enormous amount of cooldown on his E. He only starts getting stronger after building Tear and Shean, and his early win rate is 36%! 

As I mentioned, the game nowadays is faster due to snowballs from dragons and tower plates and because of that, you must have very strong support and jungle to pick Ezreal. Very similarly, Tristana’s attack range increases based on level. And since the games are so fast, you might even lose the game before you have actually reached your power spike. Unlike those two and other ADC's, Kai'Sa and Xayah have everything that is on the meta. 

But, even tho the game is so fast, I want to introduce 4 more ADC's that are decent as well. They are Lucian, MissFortune, Ashe, and Heimerdinger.

They're all showing incredible stats now, Lucian with a 50% win rate and 55% for Miss fortune. (The stats are based on Platinum or higher). Ashe had a 58% win rate last patch, and it has decreased to 53% now but it's still OP. 

Also, Heimerdinger itself is in an S+ tier, and he’s average win rate is 54%. Therefore, I would like to show you the tier list for ADC. [5]

Illustration [5]: Tier list for ADC's

I placed Xayah and Kai'Sa on S-tier since they're showing incredible stats in Master and Challenger with a 58% win rate, but when it comes to Platinum, their win rate drops to 49%.

• Support

Even though Nautilus and Blitzcrank got nerfed, they're still OP. According to the stats in Platinum or higher, both Nautilus and Blitzcrank has a 52.7% win rate. As I mentioned above while talking about ADC's, the support needs to be a good fit for this dive meta. So you should go for a tanky champion with hard CC. Leona has a 53% average win rate, so I would like to say that not only Nautilus and BLitzcrank are OP, but Leona as well. 

Since they're all diving champions, this means that champions who can prevent a dive are also on the rise. These champions are Morgana, Janna and Shaco.

But personally, I recommend support players to ban Morgana and just pick Nautilus, Blitzcrank or Leona. This is because Shaco’s pick rate is under 1% and playing Janna professionally is really hard due to her Skill-cap. If you want to grind and win, you should be the one making the plays, not the one picking Lulu and pressing W E behind the ADC while he's getting hooked. 

To help you know which champion to pick, I'm leaving below a list of a few good duo bot combinations that, in my opinion, are the best for this meta according to their stats:

1. Blitz and Xayah

Even though, Xayah's average win rate decreased a bit on this patch, this combination with Blitzcrank helps her increase it a bit more.

2. Leona and Jinx

With the good CC combinations, the average win rate of this bot duo is 56%.

3. Bard and Ezreal

It is most likely that Ezreal will be farming and Bard roaming, which maximizes the effectiveness of both champions. Their average win rate is 55%.

4. Ashe and Leona

Well... The enemy champion will not move until he's dead if play this combination right. The average win rate is 57%.

5. Miss fortune and Nautilus

This combination is a big S-tier! The average win rate is 59%

And this is all! We've selected the best information so every role is covered and everyone can grind and win as much as possible! Keep following us on our social media below and make sure you buy a Boosting service or a Coaching one and assign it to the boosters that made this blog post possible! Here are their names:

Top – Celebrimbor

Jungle - Starkingg

Mid – Justfizzics

ADC & Support - NAryan 

All boosters would be pleased to make your dream come true or even teach you more about the meta so you can climb up all by yourself! 

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