In this YouTube video, Perry Norman presents a concise tier‑list and coaching guide aimed at players who want to maximize LP gains in League of Legends patch 26.18. He highlights four jungle champions—Trundle, Master Yi, Shyvana, and Briar—as the most effective options for rapid climbing, providing personal performance anecdotes (e.g., a 9‑0 Challenger climb on Trundle) and concrete metrics such as 8 CS per minute. Norman also discusses the recent meta shift toward Bruiser Viego versus Crit Viego, explaining that both builds are viable depending on enemy team composition. Throughout, he stresses a clear distinction between playing for fun versus playing to climb, urging viewers to prioritize meta‑broken champions when LP is the goal. He leverages his full‑time coaching background, references thousands of VOD analyses, and promotes upcoming updates to his Jungle Kingdom guide ecosystem, including a tier‑list link. The video concludes with typical YouTube calls to action.
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Hey guys, welcome to my patch 26.18, the most broken junglers that you should play so you can gain LP the fastest. There are 3 junglers, maybe 4, that we're going to highlight here, and I'm going to solely focus on those junglers along with one of the bigger changes this patch, which is Bruiser Viego. Let's jump right in. Okay, so the first thing I want to highlight is Trundle. Trundle is S plus plus plus plus plus. Plus tier. Right now on my climb to Challenger, I am currently 9 wins, 0 losses on Trundle. I am freaking destroying every single game I play on this champion at a high level, high rank. That means you can do it in a lower rank as well. The technology: 3 points into your Q, then max your W. Make sure you aren't building damage every single game. You have to be thoughtful, but this champion is genuinely insane. Completely broken out of his— out of its mind. You have to play this champion for some free LP. This champion was buffed last patch and he still remains the Titan of the Rift. The next champion to talk about here is Master Yi. So Master Yi got crazy buffs on Guinsoo's and his armor increase ratio and his ultimate move speed. So overall, Master Yi just went from like a B to an A tier champion. But technically he can slip into S tier shoes because this champion is actually so powerful at Kind of noob stomping. If you play Yi from like Iron to Gold and you just know your champion's limits, you can destroy literally anybody you come across. Like actually very, very, very powerful champion. So if you really want something that just gives you some easy LP, it's fun, high, high APM— not really, but like it's, it's, it's exciting to play— Master Yi can be that champion for you as well. Okay, so we have Trundle, we have Master Yi, and then the 2 dominant champions in S tier. Let's talk about them. Okay, let's talk about Shyvana. Let's talk about Briar. Shyvana scales infinitely. She has a lot of stats. She does true damage and she farms and fights very well. It's very easy to understand how to fight on Shyvana as well. There's, there's no complication. You ult in, you hit people, you Q people, you one-shot them, you're tanky as shit, and you do it over and over and over again. And so if you're playing Shyvana, You're going at least 8 CS per minute every single game. You will dominate. You will destroy your games. And I genuinely mean, if you look here, 8 CS per minute, because right now on Trundle, I'm 8 CS per minute. I'm not lying. You need 8 CS per minute to work on a champion like Shyvana. And when I'm playing Trundle, I'm 8 CS per minute. I am farming a lot. Okay. Next champion to think about here is Briar. Briar is disturbingly strong because she stat checks. The reason why I don't recommend Briar 24/7 is because— She's not good. It's— she's very like foreign. Like, it's not foreign. She's just hard to grasp. You don't have control over your character. The thing that makes Briar so broken is the thing that makes her lose control over her character. So it's not intuitive for a lot of people as to how to play this champion. If you're willing to invest at least 50 games on a champion, you— and you want to just get really good at the game as fast as you possibly can, Briar is honestly probably the most rewarding champion in the game right now at a lower rank by far. Like, she is just so damn rewarding. You will climb so quickly with this champion, but you need to put in games. You need to understand how she works. She's very powerful though. Highly recommend if you're down to put in a lot of games. If you're not, you can still get a few free wins here and there if you want, but she's not for everybody. Now I want to be very clear about all these S-tier champions and even Master Yi. They're auto attack based champions and they stat check, and generally speaking, they can't be boring. They're not flashy like Graves. They're not flashy like Nidalee, maybe even Talon, maybe even Kha'Zix, maybe even Zed. They're not flashy. Okay, so some people tell me often, well, Perry, I don't want to play your S and A tier champions because I'm bored. And you know what I have to say about that is if you're bored when you're playing League of Legends, that means you don't care about winning. And that's okay. You are playing to have fun. But if you're playing to have fun, stop caring about LP. Stop caring about your win-loss. Because if there's something that you know will work and you know will print you LP, Please just go do that. And this is what prints LP. Okay, so the next time you say, well, Perry, like, I don't want to be bored. Okay, that's what I hear. You don't care about winning. That's fine. Go have fun. Go play any random champion in the jungle. Go enjoy yourself. That's fine. But if you're playing to climb, win the game, and just get really good at League, play the broken champions, play the meta champions. There's nothing wrong with that. I highly recommend it. That's what I've done in the past. It's what works. Okay. Now, Bruiser Viego is an interesting conversation to have here. Okay, so for all my Viego players who are like, oh, well, Bruiser Viego got buffed, this and that, this and that. I'm probably gonna do a full video on Bruiser Viego because you guys need to hear it. But the long story short on Bruiser Viego, guys, is that that build is not better than crit Viego. Bruiser Viego is not better than crit Viego. They're both very powerful. Okay. Riot's decided that they want to make Bruiser Viego decent and Crit Viego decent. And so both builds can be applicable in any game that you're playing. And so what I want you guys to think about is let's say they have an Amumu. Let's say they have an Alistar. Let's say they have an Amumu, an Alistar, and then let's put like a Swain. Okay. Okay. If you're playing Crit Viego into these guys, good fucking luck. You see what I'm saying? Good luck. And that's why you want to play maybe Bruiser Viego. Like, that's great. Play Bruiser Viego in this game. Okay. But if you're playing against champions like this, where they have an Ahri, they have a— let's give it an Annie. I don't know where Annie would go. Jhin ADC, they have a Nami support, and then they have a fucking Karthus jungle. Okay. Are you guys playing crit here or are you guys playing Bruiser? Bruiser. And so if you tell me, you look me in the eye, yeah, I'm going to play Bruiser Viego in this game. I'll look at you and be like, okay, yeah, so you don't know what the fuck's happening. You don't know what's going on. You don't know how to play League of Legends. And so you have to think about what is good for the game. And both builds are viable. There is not one build that's better than the other. It just depends on the game state. And guys, last and most importantly, these tier lists are meant to reflect what I recommend you play if you want to climb as fast as humanly possible. If you If you're playing to have fun, play whatever you want. Play Nidalee, play Lee Sin, play Kha'Zix, play Talon. It does not matter. But you need to understand that you're playing for fun. Nothing wrong with that. Okay, so just, just make that distinction very clear to yourself. I have no problem with you playing fun champions, but I ranked these champions for a reason. I coach full-time. I've coached for a living. I've helped hundreds and hundreds of people. I've seen thousands and thousands of VODs, and there are so many issues with— I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Any of these champions in the C tier and below. And if you're wondering, where's my champion? Where's Shaco? Where's Jax? Where's Olaf? There's a few that I'm probably missing. I am revamping all of the champion guides. Everything is getting revamped in the Jungle Kingdom. We're making so many updates, constantly changing the structure and everything that's happening, the ecosystem of League of Legends guides. I want to, you know, reshape, redo, and do more in this space. All right, guys, this is my tier list for what you should be playing, what you should be— how you should climb as fast as humanly possible if you want to play the best champions. If you guys enjoyed, make sure to take a look at this tier list, junglekingdom.gg/tierlist, description box down below. And anyways, guys, leave a like, comment, subscribe. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.
