• Tier 1 – Sona, Miss Fortune, Twitch, Warwick, Kennen, Shaco, Pantheon, Corki, Cho’Gath, Malphite, Rammus, Garen, Gragas, Vlad, Kassadin.

     

• Tier 2 – Morde, Tristana, Kog’Maw, Annie, Morgana, Zilean, Sion, Janna, Akali, Mundo, Xin Zhao, Nidalee, Master Yi, Teemo, Anivia, Udyr, Ashe, Karthus.

     

• Tier 3 – Malzahar, Lux, Irelia, Alistar, Fiddlesticks, Sivir, Poppy, Shen, Ryze, Galio, Singed, Eve, Olaf, Amumu, Swain, Leblanc, Nunu, Taric, Soraka, Blitzcrank, Heimerdinger.

     

• Tier 4 – Twisted Fate, Veigar, Tyrndamere, Katarina, Nasus, Ezreal, Kayle, Jax, Gangplank, Urgot

   Anivia moved up to tier 2 – I had her in tier 3 before and that was just too low for her. Regardless of her harder than average laning phase and weak early game if Anivia get’s a few kills and manages to keep up in CS she will hit incredibly hard. She’s defiantly a tier 2 at least Solo Queue champion.
  
  
Urgot moved down to tier 4 – Lol. I don’t know what I was thinking. I was trying to be fair. I was trying the think of the positives he had and let’s face the facts. He’s just awful and that’s it. I am sorry for trolling and putting him into tier 3 people. My bad, my bad XD.
  
Heimerdinger moved down to tier 3 – I feel like I put a little too much faith into dinger as he really isn’t as good as I thought. Only having 2 turrets really sucks. Although he does shine vs some team comps. Generally he’s pretty beastly early game but his late game scaling is really poor. Hell his mid game scaling is poor too and you really gotta be farmed to pack a punch on dinger these days. I feel he’s just not the best choice currently for this style of lane dominance meta.
  
Janna moved up to tier 2 – Janna is the queen wind support slut. Always has, always will be. I had her too low for Solo Queue list. She wins games with the support she gives in Solo Queue. She was defiantly placed way too low.
  
Malphite moved up to tier 1 – Okay well this one was obvious. Ridiculously strong laning phase and incredibly strong early game. This boy is the king of shutting down people in lanes. He’s hard to kill and he’s hard stand vs as his Q harass hurts quite a lot! If the person you’re laning against doesn’t have the proper runes or masteries to face you that’s pretty much GG in that lane.
  
Xin Zhao moved down to tier 2 – He’s not tier 1 material. He was too high. He’s good overall but his strength really comes from countering AD champions in lane. He gets shut down pretty hard by a lot of CC and caster damage. He’s good if you pick him normally, and he’s amazing if you pick him vs a team that doesn’t have a lot to stop him and a lot of AD damage on the team. This is where he shines.
  
Nidalee moved down to tier 2 – Same as Xin. Great Solo Queue champion but really shines when it’s vs the right champions. For instance. If the other team picks Vlad. Pick Nidalee and crush the Vlad with Nidalee and make him your bitch all game long. When Nida is up against the right champions in lane she’s beyond amazing. Otherwise just a good overall champ.
  
Shaco moved up in tier 1 – I don’t care what anyone says with all the “Shaco nerfs” and “oh my god Elementz you noob Shaco sucks now!” Shaco is the god damn king of Solo Queue jungle. He solo’s Baron and Dragon with ease and he’s also the king of ganking. Those two things WIN Solo Queue games the most. Early ganks for snowball surrenders and then if it goes late he can solo Baron over and over and just win it for your team. I hate him so much and he’s still so powerful in Solo Queue.
  
Lux moved up to tier 3 – She’s not as bad as I previously thought and she’s also very, very fun to play. Combo hitting someone with a Q,E,R combo is just delightful. I can’t get enough of her ulti. She’s actually a pretty decent caster carry. There’s obviously better choices but she’s defiantly nothing to QQ over if someone on your team picked her.
  
Irelia placed into tier 3 – Just as I said on my Draft Mode list. She’s not OP and she’s not UP. If someone really knows how to play lane or jungle Irelia let them do it because she’s defiantly not a bad champ to have on your team. If she gets farmed enough and your game turns late she’s actually an AMAZING carry. By stacking attack speed and using her active on W hitting for 75 true damage a hit. God damn that’s good. Survive early game and keep your farm up and you’ll actually have a pretty damn good champion on your hands. Max Q and E early game for good burst and don’t worry about W until late game!

• Tier 1: Janna, Sona, Galio, Morgana, Miss Fortune, Ashe, Corki, Warwick, Anivia, Annie, Taric, Shen, Amumu.
• Tier 2: Kennen, Tristana, Twitch, Kog’Maw, Kassadin, Zilean, Twisted Fate, Garen, Rammus, Xin Zhao, Udyr, Vladimir, Olaf, Gragas.
• Tier 3: Malphite, Poppy, Sivir, Pantheon, Shaco, Karthus, Mordekaiser, Veigar, Akali, Sion, Nunu, Irelia, Heimerdinger, Singed Yi, Fiddlesticks.
• Tier 4: Cho’Gath, Teemo, Leblanc, Ezreal, Nasus, Kayle, Soraka, Blitzcrank, Gangplank, Nidalee, Jax, Eve.
• Hard to place on a team: Lux, Swain, Katarina, Alistar, Ryze, Urgot, Mal’zahar, Tryndamere, Mundo.

Janna moved to top of tier 1 – Janna was moved above Sona for a couple of reasons. AoE CC + DPS is how you win games right now. The way to make sure you don’t get AoE CC + DPSed down through people just pressing R at the same time is Janna. She’s currently the only way to counter AoE teams almost making her priceless in sort of way. Now that some of the OP champs have been nerfed a bit more I feel her sitting at the top is justified. She’s also an excellent baby sitter and a free BF sword + HP absorb in team fights is always amazing. Janna your spot has been well earned.
  
   Ashe moved up in tier 1 – I find that her volley to be just an amazing poke. For instance combined with Janna and blue buff you will pick apart the enemy team at their tower. It also makes it very difficult to initiate when you’re constantly slowed. The kite game is picking up steam now and Ashe is by far the #1 kiter / poker in the game right now. I feel moving her up on the draft list make sense as the game shifts a bit.
  
Corki moved down in tier 1 – He got nerfed. Plain and simple. He’s still easily a tier 1 champion but defiantly not the best ranged carry in the game anymore.
  
Zilean moved up in tier 2 – His solo lane control combined with his ability to basically put a (Lol I dare you to kill this person and see what happens!) ulti on someone is amazing. People always underestimate the power of his early game bomb harass and often die because of it. To me he’s like an unsung hero. No one really plays him but he’s so awesome. He’s behind the scenes kicking ass while everyone goes bonkers over the current FOTM champions. Zil is awesome and I think he deserved to be moved up a bit.
  
Gragas moved to bottom of tier 2 – Granted he’s FOTM but there’s a strategy that seems to be catching on. Throwing a tank vs a AP or AD carry and have the tank(Gragas) just deny and crush the person in the lane. They have such strong early games and survivability that it makes them a viable choice for a solo lane. I find Gragas to be much more useful outside of the laning phase then the other tanks though. His ability to completely screw up a team fight with his Explosive Cask which also works as an initiate is awesome. Not to mention his mobility is insane combined with a decent about of poking and DPS in a team fight. I had Gragas too low for too long. Tank Gragas and hybrid AP/Tank Gragas’s really do kick some ass.
  
Shaco moved up in tier 3 -The more I see this champion the more I hate him. The only reason he’s so low is because his early game is easy to screw up by popping boxes and the fact that he’s squishy. Otherwise he’s the king of jungle control and the king of ganking. He’s so incredibly annoying and does so much damage as well. He’s very underrated by the community I find.
  
Karthus moved up in tier 3 – Karthus is sorta like Zilean in the sense that you don’t see many of them but when you see a good you go “Holy fuck!” and then next game you pick Karth, feed, and go “Man Karth sucks!”. When in reality Karth just has a larger learning curve then most champions and he’s actually quite good. He lanes very well and his ability to do PvE objectives such as Dragon and Baron are very underrated. His Q + E do insane damage to both. Along with when you do and you have the enemy team fight on top of your corpse. Picking up 3-4 kills when I am dead always makes me laugh. Not many people realize that Karthus has INCREDIBLE dps. If you stand near him when he’s dead he will kill you too. He’s a target you can’t leave alone but at the same time if you focus him first and fight near where you killed him you will pay for it. I feel he should be pushed up on the list because of this.
  
Heimerdinger moved down in tier 3 – I find his turrets are dying too quickly and he’s just not as viable as he once was. He’s still quite viable in solo queue but I am finding him more and more on the meh side now. He doesn’t scale very well into late game either. His dominance is mostly early hence him being higher on my Solo Queue tier list. Becuase of that reason of not having a very good late game I find he should sink down on the list a bit more. Most competitive games last 40 mins + and at that point having Dinger on your team is often not the best choice. You must utilize his insane farming ability and early game strength if you expect to win with him on your team.
  
Malphite moved to top of tier 3 -Now some of you may be wondering.. WHAT THE BALLS WHY ISN’T HE TIER 1! Well you must remember this is a Draft Mode tier list and not a Solo Queue tier list. They are completely different types of games. I can assure you he will be higher on my Solo Queue list. As for why tier 3 and why Gragas is tier 2. I find Malph to only have early game strength for the most part where as Gragas is strong through-out the whole game. Malphites dominance early is massive but his mid game is meh and his late game is blah I find. If you compare him to other tanks they all do more than him late game. Sure he’s good for a CC and some decent DPS but after he blows his ulti I find him in a team fight to be extremely lack luster. He’s a risk I find taking in a competitive game because if you don’t own it up with him early your team is really in the hole now for picking him.
  
Cho’Gath moved to top of tier 4 – Cho, like Malphite and Gragas serves the purpose of dominating a lane. I know he can be viable now in that sense for competitive play I am just unsure how viable he is for that yet. I will move him into tier 4 for now but it will take me some time to properly assess where he should be on the list. I know he’s viable, just not sure how viable he is yet!
  
AND ITS NOW TIME FOR!!! WHERE THE HELL DOES THAT NEW CHAMP LAND ON ELEMENTZ TIER LIST!!!! /drum roll
  
  
Irelia – She lands in tier 3! Because she’s not OP and she’s not UP! She’s actually a decent laning champion and can do some pretty good burst. I find it best to max out her Q and her E first before W and only getting W as the game goes late as it’s not that great of an early game skill but an amazing late game skill. Her DPS is pretty strong but her mobility and survivability I find are lacking a bit for the kind of champion she is. If those two area’s were a bit better I am sure she would be a lot higher. For now she will reside in tier 3!