LoL: Winners And Losers Of Preseason 11- Jungle Edition

The junglers you should be playing.

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

Kayn – The KING of the preseason, an absolute 1v9 champ in the jungle.

• Two forms giving him flexibility in any situation.
• Red form + Goredrinker = an unkillable, slippery tank that does damage.
• Scales hard into the late game in both forms.

Graves – The hard carry champion that bullies every jungler

• Can build different mythics depending on what the game requires.
• Strong clear speed and mobility let’s him take over the map early on.
• Has few bad matchups meaning he is a safe blind pick in most situations.

Nunu – The tank champion in the S tier

• Can quite literally snowball games in his favor with early gank pressure.
• High utility, enables his teammates to succeed and carry.
• The best objective control out of any junglers with Consume-Smite being able to out contest any jungler.

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

Kha’zix – Invisible Assasin Bug

• One-shot potential with Duskblade makes Kha extremely hard to deal with.
• Duskblade lets Kha be invisible for a whole team fight when paired with his ultimate.
• Flexibility with evolutions lets him shine in different situations.

Rammus – The no-counter play champion

• Strong gank pressure that can guarantee kills with a knock-up and taunt.
• Provides frontline for the team while dealing AOE damage.
• Itemization changes with ability haste lets him taunt more than once per team fight.

Hecarim – A slightly weaker pony.

• Despite the nerfs, Hecarim is still an absolute menace if he manages to get a lead in the early game.
• Can fall behind late-game if he doesn’t get a lead against the map.
• High movement speed allows him to punish laners who are overextended.

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

Skarner – The QSS tax jungler

• The best jungler for locking down people with a stun from his passive and an ultimate that suppresses.
• Can win jungle matchups especially when people are unfamiliar against Skarner.
• Fighting around spires can win early game skirmishes to snowball the game.

Fiddlesticks – The niche AP team fighter in the jungle

• Insane team fighting with AOE fears and silence paired with raw damage from ultimate.
• While powerful, Fiddlesticks can easily get counter-jungled and put into bad situations.
• Falls off in higher ranks where players are good at avoiding his ultimates.

Amumu – Teamfight King

• An easy to play champion with a straightforward goal of landing good ultimates in team fights.
• Has a pretty strong clear speed that is good for power farming in most ranks.
• Can be punished by meta champions such as Kayn or Graves.

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

Sylas – Good luck being a champion

• Has a terrible clear speed making him fall behind from the beginning of the game.
• Negative win rate against all junglers.

Xin Zhao- The feast or famine champion with little payoff

• Falls off hard late game if he doesn’t get ahead.
• Synergizes best with Trinity Force mythic, but has no clear itemization path afterward.
• High risk and low reward with his feast or famine playstyle of going for early ganks.

Rengar – Itemization issues in lethality

• With the disappearance of warrior items Rengar now has to itemize Flat AD before going lethality.
• Healing based itemization with Gore Drinker forces Rengar to play for skirmishing instead of one-shotting.
• Tanks can now out damage rengar while providing more utility to their team.