League of Legends - Page 186

Nidalee and Ez are the best ranged DPS at the moment, I think, considering their versatility, their map control, and their damage output. Both of them double as splendid healers and pushers, while being nasty gankers, and are difficult to kill. Fiddle is Fiddle, Jax is Jax, and Shen is Shen. Jax IMO is hovering at the edge of tier 1 and tier 2; he's strong, but I've not found him invincible unless your team compo sucks. But he definitely punishes bad team composition. So is Fiddle - there's a metagame shift that I'll talk about in Tier 2.

Alistar's on the verge of teetering from tier 2 to tier 3 atm for me, as is Malphite. Alistar is still a good pusher, but with the existence of Nidalee and Ezreal he's just not that "necessary" anymore. Malphite's mass AoE is great but the metagame is switching away from AoE, thus the devaluing of AoE nukers like Fiddle and Annie. Nidalee, Ezreal, Shen, etc. are creating more of a map control roaming game, and the ability to defend lanes with things like Sivir and Janna (both nightmares to push against) give teams the ability to hold a lane 4v5. All three of the top support heroes are in this tier because I think heal is still crazy, and Warwick's jungling map control is still one of the best, even though he gets shut down by teams that ward against him.

I feel Amumu's on a slide, but I'll still give him T3. Ashe is annoying to play against, as is Blitz, Corki can carry but only if you're really good, Kat's buffs have made her have crazy burst damage, Morg is as always, Nunu's become a lot faster and more efficient as a jungler as his consume sped up and he's a great ganker, Sion is Sion, Sivir is Sivir, Trist is Trist, Twitch is Twitch, Udyr's the 2nd best jungler in the game, and TF is middling because his DPS is okay but slow, he has no lane control, but his map control is still nice and lame.

Cho has a nice AoE silence and an annoying AoE rupture but it's hard to make people target you. Gangplank is good for starving and that's about it. Gragas is nice but I tend to see him fall off as the game goes on. Maybe I've just not played with many good Gragas players. Pantheon has his days. Rammus is a great ganker and chaser, but as an initiator (which is what a tank should be) I feel he's lacking. Ryze is a glass cannon that punishes idiots, Singed falls apart in teamfights unless he's super farm, and Taric's just a crappy Sion now.

All these heroes can counter certain heroes on the other team, but aren't consistently great picks. Every now and then you'll go damn I wish we had Mundo (vs Fiddle), or damn I wish we had Veigar (against some caster), but every other time you'll think god what a useless piece of #@$(@. Non-blind pick would make a lot of them much more viable. Shaco's use got really hammered by the fact that there're now better roaming heroes (Nidalee, Shen, Ezreal in particular) that he struggles to actually beat, which kinda kills the whole point of him.

I hate these guys.