Champion Guides & Tier Lists

Champion guides & tier lists — quick answer

lolchampions.gg publishes role tier lists and climbing guides dated to a named patch. Newest on-site fill: Patch 26.17 (historical) from U.GG Emerald+ (captured 6 Sep 2026). Live game is 26.18+ — new Emerald+ capture pending. Prior filled list: Patch 26.12. Patch hub: /patches.html.

Use our guides for: dated snapshots + links into visual hubs (skins / wallpapers).
Use U.GG / OP.GG / Mobalytics for: live win rates, builds, and matchup samples on the current patch.
Use Mobafire for: long community write-ups.

26.17 historical (U.GG Emerald+) · Patches hub · Patch 26.12 · Skin Browser · Ocean Song Jinx hub · vs U.GG

Patch 26.17 Riot context (safe cite for that snapshot): Nasus/Vayne nerfs; Irelia/Qiyana/Yasuo/Yone buffs; Xerath/Nocturne/Graves tuned down; Stormrazor up; Sundered Sky down; Ocean Song Jinx skin. 26.17 tiers filled from U.GG Emerald+ Ranked Solo (World), captured 6 Sep 2026 09:31 Europe/Stockholm. Patch 26.18 is live (~10 Sep) — check U.GG until we re-capture.

How to read the guide library

The cards below are a library, not a live board. Each one carries a date and, when it is a tier list, a patch number. Read those before the title. A phrase like “right now” on an older card means the day that card was written. The date is printed next to the title so you do not have to guess which week the author meant.

The newest filled tier list is Patch 26.17, and it is historical. It was captured from U.GG’s Emerald+ Ranked Solo lists (World) on 6 September 2026. This index and that page both say the live game is already 26.18 or later. We have not replaced 26.17 with a guessed later table. Until there is a new capture, the honest link for the queue you are about to play is U.GG or OP.GG. The 26.17 page is still the place to see how that snapshot was built: U.GG’s S+ and S shown in one column, the original band left in the note, and no B tier invented to fill a blank row.

Patch 26.12, and the April card for Patch 26.7, are older documents. They are not quiet updates to 26.17. The role essays from March and June 2026 — ADCs, top laners, junglers, supports, beginners, climbing — are essays from those months. They name champions. They are not the Emerald+ table, and they should not be merged into it. If an essay and the 26.17 snapshot disagree, neither disagreement lets us print a fresh rank. The snapshot is the only filled list with a stated source and a capture time, and even that list is historical.

This library does not cover live win rates, sample sizes, rune pages, item orders, or any champion we have not actually written about. A missing guide is missing. We do not auto-generate a build paragraph to cover the gap. Some cards link to champion hubs. Those hubs are visual pages — splash, wallpapers, fan art — even when the card you clicked was about a role. Crossing from a guide to a hub changes the job. It does not continue the same sentence.

The filters are only filters on this page. Tier Lists are the dated snapshots. Champion Guides and Role Guides are the essays. Beginner and Climbing are the tags on pages written for people still learning the map, or still grinding a low rank. Search matches the card text you can already see. It does not search a hidden stats database, because there is not one on this site. If you want the picture of a champion a guide just named, open the hub or the Skin Browser. If you want the number, leave. The vs U.GG page is the longer version of that exit.