Pick your lane opponent and see which champions counter them, which ones they beat, and the mechanical reason behind each call.
Search all 173 League of Legends champions, then open one to see who beats it and who it beats.
A counter pick only decides who starts ahead. Wave management, trading windows and knowing when your power spike is live decide who finishes ahead, and that is where most lanes are actually lost. Our League of Legends coaches review your replays, break down the matchups you keep dropping, and give you a plan for the lanes you cannot dodge in champion select.
Get LoL coaching
Search the champion you care about Type a name into the search box or scroll the roster below it. Search the champion you are facing, not the one you play, because the lists are built around the champion you look up.
Open the champion to see both sides You get two lists. On the left, the champions that usually beat the one you picked, which is what you want when you are looking for a counter pick. On the right, the champions it usually beats, which is what you want when you are the one being countered.
Read the reason, not just the name Where a matchup turns on something concrete, a range gap, a mobility gap, a power spike or sustain in extended trades, we say so. That is the part you can act on: knowing you lose to range tells you to change how you trade, not just who you pick.
Follow the matchup web Every champion in both lists is a link. Click through to see who counters your counter, which is how you find the pick that answers the lane rather than just swapping into another bad one.
The most reliable lane advantage in League of Legends: one champion lands damage the other simply cannot answer.
Dashes, blinks and leaps decide whether a diver ever reaches the champion it came to kill.
Every champion has a window where it is at its strongest, and the lane belongs to whoever reaches theirs first.
Healing and regeneration quietly undo the chip damage that a poke lane is built on.
Below the top of the ladder, playing a champion you know well usually beats playing a theoretically favourable one you do not. Counter picking pays off once you have a small pool you can play at the same level, so you can swap without losing mechanical comfort. If a matchup is genuinely miserable for a one-trick, that is when picking around it earns its keep. If you would rather learn the hard lane than dodge it, that is exactly what LoL coaching is for.
A counter pick is a champion whose kit starts the lane ahead of the one it faces, before either player does anything clever. It is not a guaranteed win, it is a head start: better trades, safer farming, and more room for error in the first ten minutes.
For a fast feel: search the champion you are about to face and read the left column. Those are the picks that hold the advantage. If you are the one being countered and cannot swap, coaching is the faster fix, because the lane is playable once you know how to trade in it.
The summary higher up this page names them; this is where each one becomes something you can check in champion select. The second column is the part people get wrong, because every one of these has a condition attached.
| Rank | How to check it | Where it stops being true |
|---|---|---|
| Range | Riot publishes an exact attack range for every champion. Below roughly 300 units a champion is melee; a gap of a hundred units or more between two ranged champions is already a real advantage. | The moment the shorter-ranged side has a dash or a hook. A gap closer converts the range gap into one all-in, and then the longer range is the liability. |
| Mobility | Count the escapes, not the dashes. A champion with three dashes forward and none backward is mobile for engaging and immobile for surviving. | Against a champion with hard crowd control. Roots, stuns and suppression cancel mobility outright, which is why lockdown beats a diver rather than losing to it. |
| Power curve | Ask when the champion is strongest: at level two, at level six, or at two items. That window is when it has to take the lane, and outside it the matchup often flips. | After twenty minutes. An early game advantage that has not turned into towers, plates or a jungle lead has expired, and the scaler is now the favourite. |
| Sustain | Look for healing tied to hitting minions or champions rather than a one-off shield. Regeneration that runs every wave is what beats poke. | Against burst that kills in one rotation, and against Grievous Wounds. Sustain wins extended trades; it does nothing about an all-in that never becomes extended. |
Where one of these clearly decides a matchup, the tool prints it next to the champion. Where nothing clean applies, it shows the name alone rather than inventing a mechanic.
The four champion properties are covered in the previous tab. This one is about everything around them, because a lane is decided by more than the two portraits in the loading screen.
Every champion page shows both directions of the matchup, because you need different halves depending on whether you are picking or being picked into.
A favourable matchup is a head start, not an outcome. None of the following come with it.
Champion mechanics are identical on every server and at every rank, so the matchups here apply the same in EUW as in Korea. What changes is how reliably the advantage gets converted, which is a player question rather than a champion one.
Counter picking is a habit, not a lookup. These are the parts that separate players who gain LP from it from players who just pick a champion they cannot play.
The habit is learnable and it is exactly the sort of thing a coach fixes quickly. Our LoL coaching covers draft, matchups and the first ten minutes.
Counter picking is oversold. There are plenty of situations where it costs you more than it gains, and knowing them is worth as much as the lists above.
Everything here is stated so you can judge it yourself, including the parts we deliberately do not do.
These are guides to champion select, not guarantees. The matchup starts the lane; you still have to play it.
LoL coaching and boosting
A counter pick decides the matchup and not the result. Coaching reviews your own replays and fixes the habits that give away games you had already won in lane. Boosting covers the climb when time is the limit rather than skill.
LoL coaching
Type a champion name in the search box or find them in the grid below it, then click the portrait. You get two lists: the champions that usually beat them, and the champions they usually beat. Every entry links to that champion, so you can keep clicking through the matchup web without going back.
Because we do not have that data and will not invent it. Every other counter site pulls win rates from match APIs and presents a number like 52.4% as if it settled the matchup. Those numbers move with every patch, swing wildly at low sample sizes, and say nothing about why a lane is hard. We publish the qualitative call and the mechanical reason behind it instead, which is the part that actually helps you in champion select.
Usually one of a handful of mechanical facts: a range advantage that lets one side trade for free, a mobility gap that decides whether an assassin can reach a target, a power curve mismatch where one champion is strongest before the other comes online, or sustain that undoes chip damage in an extended trade. These hold across patches, which is why a counter list stays useful far longer than a win rate does.
Rarely. They are built from champion mechanics rather than the current patch, so a rework or a major item change can move an entry, but a balance nudge to a few base stats will not. We revisit the lists when a champion is reworked or released, not every patch.
No, and anyone promising that is selling something. A counter pick means the mechanics start in your favour, which is worth real LP over many games. It does not survive being outplayed, ganked, or outscaled, and a comfortable champion you know well often beats a theoretical counter you have never played.
Below high elo, champion mastery usually beats the matchup on paper. Counter picking pays off most when you already have two or three champions you can play at the same level, so you can swap without losing mechanical comfort. If a matchup is genuinely miserable for your one-trick, that is the case where picking around it is worth it.
The lists are per champion rather than per role, so they describe the general matchup between two champions rather than one specific lane. Most champions have a home lane and the entries reflect that, but if you play a champion somewhere unusual, treat the list as a guide to the mechanical relationship rather than a lane-by-lane verdict.
Portraits, names and base statistics such as attack range come from Riot's official Data Dragon, so the roster is always the real one. The matchup calls themselves are authored by hand from champion mechanics. Nothing here is scraped from another site's win rate tables.
That is usually execution rather than the matchup: trading at the wrong time, missing the window where your power spike is live, or dying to the enemy jungler rather than the laner. A counter pick only converts if you use the advantage it gives you, which is exactly the sort of thing a coach spots in one replay.
Yes. Our LoL coaching covers matchup-specific play: how to trade into a bad lane, when your spikes land, and how to play the map when laning is not winnable. If you would rather skip the climb, our division boosting and net wins services handle the LP directly.
