LoL: Winners And Losers Of Preseason 11 – ADC Edition

The best of the bot lane carries!

Preseason has settled down and Riot doesn’t plan on making any big changes before Season 11. Get a head start on your competition by learning the meta and picking the champions that won the preseason.

S Tier – Champions that you should pick if they aren’t banned

Jhin – One-Shot One-Kill

• Oppressive laning phase.
• Early power spike with Eclipse.
• Has no bad matchups.

Samira – The best duo bot lane champion

• Insane synergy with any CC support.
• Massive outplay potential with lifesteal itemization.
• Built-in windwall that blocks all projectiles.

Miss Fortune – Lethality and Movement Speed

• Strong laning phase with W passive and Q poke.
• Spikes earlier than auto-attack based crit champions.
• Massive AOE ultimate for early game team fights.

A Tier – Champions that are strong, but require a little more work to pull off

Vayne- The quintessential Kraken Slayer user

• Weaker lane phase compared to meta champs.
• Massive powerspikes at Kranken Slayer and Rageblade.
• Best tank shredder in the game.

Draven – The lane bully

• One of the best lane bullies in bot lane especially with Hail of Blades.
• Itemization flexibility with lethality builds and lifesteal builds.
• Can get zoned out by poke and have trouble entering fights.

Kai’sa – Teamfighting queen

• Really strong follow-up on CC champions.
• Struggles to lane against current meta ADCs.
• High outplay potential with her ultimate and evolved E.

B Tier – Viable, but have less impact than higher tiers

Tristana – Feast or famine

• Snowball hard or die trying.
• Great at getting picks by herself.
• Useless if she loses lane.

Ashe – Utility in the bot lane

• AOE slow with her W and global vision with Hawkshot.
• Hard CC ultimate.
• Comes online later than meta ADCs.

Ezreal – Lots of fun

• Long-range poke and mobility.
• Weak lane phase with tear being mandatory.
• Can fall behind and have trouble coming back.

Losers of the Preseason (Don’t play these champions)

Aphelios – 200 years of failure

• Has no power spike with any Mythics.
• Extremely low mobility.
• Hard to play for little reward.

Caitlyn – The lane bully who gets bullied

• Struggles to bully in lane.
• Doesn’t spike well with Mythics.

Twitch – No items for the rat

• Low item synergies with all Mythics.
• Takes three items to become relevant.
• AP itemization is better than AD itemization.