The BEST Junglers To CLIMB WITH! - Patch 26.10 Tier List - BIG Jungle Changes!

Hey guys, it's Perry Norman here. Today we're doing a patch 26.10 jungle tier list, the best champions to play for you to go from Iron to Diamond. There are a lot of changes with this new patch. We have Ambessa being changed, Lee Sin, there's some Naafiri changes, there's some Wukong changes, and the weirdest one is Quinn. Let's jump right into the tier list. We're going to start off with the S-tier champions, and then we're going to jump into what's going on with Quinn, and then we're going to talk about the rest of the champions as we go. Let's jump right into it here. The S-tier champions are almost always going to be looking like these 3 behemoths. Briar is one of the most broken champions in the game by far. Her Q, W, E, and ult all have to do with one thing. It has to do with getting free kills because you are— have so many— so much stats as a champion where it's like you heal so much HP it makes no sense. You deal so much damage it makes no sense. Briar is genuinely one of the most disturbing champions when it comes to how much healing and damage you deal. Next up we have Mr. Knock Nocturne's always gonna be like A or S tier. I think he's pretty strong right now if you're going the lethality build when they have squishies and the bruiser build when they have tanks. So Nocturne as a champion kind of has the option to go damage, uh, full damage or full bruiser. And you need to be able to decide which one to go because a lot of people are actually losing games because they'll go for the wrong build on Nocturne. If you go the right build, you'll likely win more games. Next up here we have Shyvana. Shyvana did get nerfed in this next patch, but it's not going to affect her to the point where she's going to be bad in, in the elos from Iron all the way up to like Emerald Diamond. Like maybe in Diamond, you know, she's gonna get hurt by a little bit. If you guys want to see what the, the patch, uh, that the changes are, I'll pull it up really quickly here. So let's look at the Shyvana changes really quickly. It's very, very small things. Her health per level is 5 on every single level, so you're gaining a little bit of less like HP per level. Very small amount. And then your Q— your E— your W cooldown is going from 13, staying the same, and it's going down all the way to, um, to 10 instead of 9. So it's, it's a very small adjustment on the cooldown. The big thing is you're losing 15 flat bonus, like flat shielding on your W, like throughout the entire time. That hurts, but it doesn't make Shyvana weak. She's still going to be strong. She's still going to be relevant. All right, there's going to be our S-tier champions. If you want LP. Now you pick up those champions, you become a meta slave, you will gain LP. I give you a guarantee. Give it 14 days, play at least 50 games on the champion across 14 days, and I promise you, at a certain point, you're either gonna just immediately start winning, or as you learn more about the champion, you're going to start eventually winning. All right, let's talk about Quinn real quick, guys. Quinn got some changes that are really interesting. Her passive just deals bonus monster damage by 50. That's a lot of extra damage. And then her Q also deals 50 10% increased damage to monsters. Last thing is her ultimate costs even less mana. So this is more helpful to laners than it is for junglers because junglers have the infinite mana hack. But this actually makes Quinn a jungler. Where will we put Quinn now based off this tier list? We're going to put her in the B tier. She's not OP OP, but she's not necessarily weak. Uh, you'll see a trend in all the B, C, D, and F tier champions where a lot of them are very hard mechanical champions and they're like, they're strong, but they're not omega OP. So Quinn is one of those champions where she can be okay in the jungle, she can have a good clear speed, she can be decently strong in a game, but if you get hit by one CC spell in a teamfight, you're fucking cooked. Versus look at all the S-tier champions. Not only do you get to get hit by all their CC, you get to face tank it, you get to eat it, and you get to keep going forward no matter how much CC you eat. Like, you're going to be completely fine. Real quick guys, we're well aware that we're missing a few champions in this tier list. If you don't see your champion on this tier list, don't worry. We're going to be adding that champion in the next few days. This is my personal site, and I'm working with my coaches as fast as we possibly can to get all these champions out with proper guides. So bear with us here. Anyway, back to the video. Alright, the next champ we have to talk about, this is probably the biggest change on the patch here, is going to be Lee Sin. So Lee Sin lost some shielding on his W, which is like whatever. He lost 10 shielding. Who cares, boohoo. This one is crazy. Your flat cooldown used to be 12 seconds, and then when used on non-champions— uh, we'll use on non-champions— and then when, when used on an ally champion, it turned into 6. So we got half, it went from 12 to 6 if you used it on an ally champion. Now it's 7 seconds at all ranks. And here's the thing, before when you shielded a ward or, or like a minion, you didn't get the shield. Now you get the damn shield. Dude, it literally seems like every single time it's like Worlds is coming about, or MSI, uh, just like, like any sort of like, any sort of like big tournament is coming, they just want to change Lee Sin and make him in the meta because they did more to Lee Sin. So they made his E damage, um, go, go down by a little bit. Instead of 100% AD, it's 90% AD. So he hurt— they hurt his damage. But look at this here, guys, a new thing for Lee Sin's ultimate. Which is Unconditional Collateral. A champion's body will fly— will continue to fly, knock up, and do damage even if killed mid-fight. This has been one of the most annoying things to experience on Lee Sin, where you ult someone, you kill them, and it's like, fuck, if I didn't kill him, I would have been able to get a massive 3-4 man combo. And now they've just completely fixed that. So usually, guys, if you know my tier list, you know how I do things here. I put Lee Sin in the F tier. In this tier list right here, we're going to put Lee Sin in the B tier. Okay, so if you're an Iron player all the way up to like, you know, Emerald, Diamond, which is the tier list this is made for, you can actually play Lee Sin and have good results on the champion because Lee Sin now is a lot easier to play. Like, a lot easier to like fuck up on and you'll still be fine because your W is on a 7-second cooldown now permanently. Like, that is crazy. Real quick guys, if you want to learn more about any of these champions on this tier list, go to the description box down below, junglekingdom.gg/tierlist. And you can click on any of the champions and get a basic overview of the items and a good idea of what you should be doing in the early game, mid game, late game, and some generic tips on the champion. All right guys, let's jump back to the video. All right, in the A tier champions, in no particular order of strength are these guys listed, we have Rammus. Rammus is just a strong champion on lower elos because of how tanky he is, how much damage he does. He is not the fundamental champion I like to teach because he skips all of his camps and he goes and he ganks and helps his teammates. You are not the hyper carry on Rammus, so if you want to play a supportive facilitative champion, Rammus is really good to accomplish that. The next champion we have here on the list is Udyr. Udyr has two very interesting builds. He has an AP build and an AD build, and overall Udyr is just pretty strong in the meta right now because of the flexibility and because of how AP champions, which are normally Udyr's bane of existence, aren't that strong at the moment. So Udyr is just like naturally gets back to be in the meta because other champions are like going up and down in strength. Other champions are getting buffed, other champions are getting nerfed. The next champion we have here is going to be Volibear. So Volibear, one of my favorite champions in the world, uh, has two separate builds as well. He has an AD build and an AP build. If you're able to play both builds and you understand when to go PTA, when to go Lethal Tempo, PTA is the AD one, Lethal Tempo is the AP one. And you know that Lethal Tempo is generally when they have 3+ melees. PTA is when they have 3+ range. You understand the difference. AD is good against squishies, AP is good against tanks. You're going to be really good on the Volibear champion. Apply in and out fighting. Great stat-checking champion. Make sure you land your W on the target you want to heal off of. Don't W their backline if you can't heal off of their backline. Um, overall, Volibear is just a pretty solid champion. I don't think he's going to ever drop below like A tier. Um, he's, he's almost always like an S, A tier. Next on the list here, guys, we have Amumu. Amumu is the bread and butter. He's the staple. He's what helped Ludwig get to Platinum, and he's what I always prescribe people in lower elos who are like newer to the game. Amumu is just so easy to play, and he's so easy to climb on. I will say though that he's not necessarily an S tier champion because Champions right now in League of Legends rely on having very fast full clears. Amumu does not have a fast full clear, but there's no easier champion to take team fights on than Amumu. Next on the list, we have Xin Zhao. I know there's been some AP Xin Zhao build shenanigans going on, some, some weird shit going on. I personally have no clue what the AP Xin Zhao build looks like. Maybe I'll make a meta video on AP Xin Zhao later. I actually don't know. So my game— you guys tell me in the comments if Xin Zhao is very powerful or not, because I genuinely have no clue. But what I will say is the AD version of Xin Zhao and Xin Zhao in general for lower elo players is a very good champion to climb on always, almost always, because he has good stats, good team fighting, and he'll always be relevant when he uses his ultimate. Next on the list, we have Dr. Freaking Mundo. This champion has one style to play, and you have to play with that style. If you don't full clear your camps on repeat you will not win your games. And I mean this. You have to aim for 9 CS per minute plus. If you don't go for 9 CS per minute plus, you are not playing Mundo correctly. That's the one thing he excels at. Once you get your first item, your second item, your third item, then you can start trying to interact with people. Then you can start trying to fight. But your goal is to farm as fast as humanly possible. The plant lady herself, Zyra, is an interesting champion because she follows the exact same rules as Mundo. She follows the full clear, full clear, full clear. Just like Shyvana, but instead of Zyra being like, you know, bad at full clearing or slow, she is the fastest full clearer in the game and has the easiest full clear as well. Zyra just literally clears camps so quickly with her plants that you can clear like 20-30 seconds faster than so many champions, and it's just genuinely disturbing what you can do on her. If you don't farm your camps efficiently, you're not going to be a good Zyra player. Farm your camps efficiently. All right guys, next champion is going to be Lillia. Lillia is a pretty solid champion right now. She's not necessarily weak. A lot of people don't really play her correctly though. You need to farm very efficiently, and in team fights you need to have really good kiting, really good spacing. So this is a fun champion if you know how to use your Q and, and weave around in fights very, very, very effectively. Next up we have Jarvan. Jarvan is a bread and butter staple champion. There are 3 variations to the Jarvan build. If you are only going one build path on Jarvan, I promise you, you're not pushing Jarvan's limits properly. Okay, if you know how items work, you know that there's a Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver build that's pure tank on Jarvan. Okay, it's a pretty solid build when you need to be the tank. Then there's a more bruiser style, aggressive style, where instead of going Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, you're going Eclipse first item, so you're squishier but you deal more damage. And then you're going to go for a Sundered Sky and then more damage, like a Black Cleaver or Death's Dance. And then there's the last and final build on Jarvan, which is going to be the full lethality Death's Dance Jarvan build, where you go Voltaic first item, or Profane Cyclasword, and then you absolutely need an Axiom Arc for that ultimate refresh, and you're gonna be one-shotting people. So if your teammates need a frontline, go tank. If your teammates don't need a frontline and you— but the enemies have a lot of damage, go bruiser. If the enemies are extremely squishy, go full lethality on Jarvan. Alright, the next champion we have here is Mr. Graves himself. Graves is a really powerful champion with the Hubris, Collector. Overall, solid, solid champion. He's a little bit more on the difficult end. Like, he's hard. Not the hardest, 'cause you're literally auto attacking. The positioning is what makes Graves not an S++ tier champion. If you're lower elo, you're not gonna position too well. You're gonna get caught off. You're gonna get one-shot. But Graves just does so much damage right now that he's still an A tier champion. Even for me, I fuck Graves up all the time. That's why he's not like OP OP OP. Because you're in the hands of a ranked player who's like below Diamond. You're going to get yourself caught a few too many times. Alright, the next champion we have for you is Fiddlesticks. Fiddlesticks is a champion that personally I don't know a lot about, okay? Like, I wish I knew more about this champion, but he's simply a one-trick champion. He doesn't play like your average player. He doesn't build like your average player. There's a lot of variation on this champion too. To be completely honest, Fiddlesticks is strong if you're willing to just play 1,000 games of him and learn Fiddlesticks. You're not playing League of Legends anymore, you're playing Fiddlesticks. But when you play Fiddlesticks well, yeah, he's a pretty strong champion. But don't expect to play 2, 3, 4, 5 games of Fiddlesticks, maybe even 20, 30, and expect to win. You're not going to be winning on Fiddlesticks when you do that. Next up on the list here is going to be Ambessa. So Ambessa's changes are pretty big. Okay, what happened with Ambessa is something really interesting where she got a top lane buff and a bit of a jungle nerf. Let's take a look at this really, really, really quickly. So pretty much she got more damage on her Q. It went from 2% to 4%, so a 2% increase on ranks 1, 2, 3. It kind of bounces on like 4 and 5, but her bonus monster damage has gone from 125 to 75, so it really sucks with how much damage she's dealing on her camps. She's getting more healing from her ulti, 10 to 15%, so a 5% increase. But overall, this clear speed reduction is going to hurt Ambessa, but she's still strong as fuck because her team fighting is just absolutely insane. It's ludicrous how strong she is in the team fights. Next up on the tier list here, we have Mr. Wukong. Wukong is a very hard champion to play, but he's still strong enough to where even if you fuck up many times, you can definitely make things work and 1v9 your games as Wukong. What happened is Wukong got a 10% buff on his damage from his clone and the clone also lasts 0.75 more seconds, which is a lot of time considering he also is going to deal more damage with the clone. This is going to feel very good for Wukong when it comes to fighting. But the biggest thing, 5% on your E is huge because you're going to go from 35% to 40%. That really helps your clear speed. Wukong as a champion, the one thing that he lacks is a fast clear speed. Now that he has a fast clear speed, I believe this champion is going to be very, very, very, very, very powerful. He's just harder to understand how to use your combos because you have 2 ultimates, you can use your W in different ways, you can use your Q in different ways, you have a Q-R combo. So definitely watch some Wukong one-tricks to really understand how to play Wukong. Alright guys, that's gonna wrap us up for the A tier. A lot of champions in the A tier, as you can see, are stat-checking champions that just have more damage, more survivability, more tankiness, more something. There's one thing that you look at the champion It's like, "Oh wow, they really excel at that one thing." Or they just are generally overall very well kitted out. Especially compared to a lot of champions that you see in B, C, D, and F tier. That's why they're here in the A tier and not anywhere lower. To continue the B tier, we have Ivern. Ivern is a pretty simple champion, but a pretty hard champion at the same time. The reason why I say this is because Ivern is just such a specific one-trick champion. Where honestly speaking, this champion is only good if you're down to play 1,000 games of Ivern. Same thing with Fiddlesticks, same thing with Nunu, same thing with Zac. They don't really follow traditional ways of playing the game. There's a few other champions like this. I'll list a few more. Bel'Veth is a very like— like, you play the game of Bel'Veth. You don't play the game of League of Legends. You're playing Bel'Veth. And this is a similar thing to assassins. At least assassins have some good overlap. But that's why Ivern is not like crazy S, S++ tier. At least when you're lower elo and you're new to the game, you're starting things off. To continue with the tier list here, we have Trundle. Trundle is a pretty underrated champion that I think a lot of people could have a lot of fun with. He's very, very, very strong at stat-checking people. The only issue with Trundle is that if you have an enemy comp that can kite you really easily and you fuck your pillars up, you will get absolutely crushed in every single team fight. So you need to have some champion proficiency. I like Trundle personally, but you really need to play to farm efficiently, make good plays on side lanes, and understand how to use your pillar correctly. Alright guys, let's take a look at Viego here. A lot of people love this champion. Viego is one of the most loved champions in League of Legends in general, but the reality of this champion is he's a hard champion to play. Okay, the reason why he's a hard champion to play is although people make it seem like, oh, you just take possession spam your abilities and you win the game. There's a lot more specifics to Viego, how you use your E, how you use your W for auto resets, how you play those champions, whether you leave the possessions up. There's a lot of specific things you can do on Viego that most people don't do, which is why they're not hard stomping all of their games. There's also multiple builds you can go on this champion, and if you're not utilizing the Bruiser build or the Hail of Blades build, then you're missing out on more potential on carrying with Viego. All right, next up on the B tier here we have Nunu. Nunu is one of those one-trick champions. He really suffered from getting, uh, a phase rush removed, so now it's like Electrocute. It's like, I don't know, Nunu is strong, but he's definitely a one-trick champion. So just remember, uh, you can probably play a few games of him and like find success because you just gank lanes, gank lanes, gank lanes, sort of like Rammus. But if you really want to push Nunu to its limits, you need to one-trick him. Alright, the next champion here we have is Master freaking Yi. Master Yi is a pretty strong champion, but he is not very forgiving of a champion. If you walk in, get yourself killed, or get hit by CC— if the enemy team has CC and you don't know how to play around it, you're pretty fucked on this champion. If you're really aware of threats and you know how to dodge everything, you know how to use your Q properly, and you're properly building as well, Master Yi could be an A or S tier champion. But if you are not really being very intentional with Master Yi, then Honestly speaking, I wouldn't play this champion. Next on the list we have Zac. Zacariah himself. He is a champion that I would say is a one-trick champion. Only play this champion if you're down to one trick. He's not too hard, but he's also not easy to perfect or excel at. You need to know like your limits with your tankiness and your damage and your E. I think that takes around like 75+ games. You don't need to one-trick one-trick him, but you need to have some proficiency on him. For Zac to actually genuinely work. Alright, next up here we have Diana. Diana has fallen off the heavens because they've just kept nerfing her over and over and over again. And right now she just doesn't excel at anything really. There's a lot of champions that out-clear her at this point because they've nerfed her clear so many times. There's a lot of champions that just out-damage her in fights. There's a lot of champions that like deal— have more stats than her as well. She doesn't really excel at anything specific anymore, but she's still overall a decent champion. She's not thrown to the gutters of C, D, or F tier. Uh, but overall she definitely lost a lot of her strength. All right guys, let's jump into the C tier here. I'm going to group up all these champions and talk about C tier as a whole because I want you guys to understand that these— they all— these champions, they all have something in common. And the big thing they have in common is that they are either not forgiving, too hard to carry with, by, by terms of like they're too hard mechanically, or they are just like they don't excel at like anything specifically. So Ekko, for example, sometimes you're not going to be able to hard win a, a fight because you're like an assassin. Maybe you have to ulti, maybe you get hit by something, maybe you don't get a lot of gold. If you have a bad early game, you're fucked on Ekko. Rek'Sai is one of those champions where the mid-late game, if you don't have good team fights, if you don't play the fights well— she's very hard to play in general, and if your early game is not amazing, you're not gonna be too strong on the Rek'Sai. Hecarim as a champion, he just needs a big lead. If he doesn't get a big lead, you don't get spoonfed you, you're going to be behind the curve. You're not going to be strong enough to 1v9 a game. Bel'Veth functions in the same way. Bel'Veth needs to win your Raptors. Bel'Veth needs to get early game kills. Bel'Veth needs to fight you to win. And if you don't win as Bel'Veth in the early game, you're going to be pretty miserable on the champion. She also is a very hard champion to play with the 4 different Qs. Your W resets your Q. How are you going to use your E? How are you going to space? There's a lot of specific mechanical prowess to Bel'Veth where if you're a really good champion, yeah, you could be S tier. But if you're not really good at the champion, then she's going to be in the C tier. Next up we have is Naafiri. Naafiri is one of the most hard champions, like, overall. I know it might not seem like she is because she just one-shots you. Here's the thing, guys. I'm imagining you're picking Naafiri up for the first time ever maybe the second, third, fourth, fifth time. It's not gonna feel that easy. Like, sure, you get a free kill, a few free kills here and there, but here's the thing: assassins ending the game is a lot harder than a bruiser or a tank or like a champion that can stat check. Um, those champions generally excel at ending the game compared to a champion like Nefiri. Nefiri also got nerfed by a bit here, so that's why she's just not ranked too high. Next up is Gwen. Gwen is one of those unforgiving champions where if you don't play fights well, you're cooked. You don't W well, you don't E well, you don't R well, you're cooked. There's so much specifics Gwen. If you're not a good Gwen player at fighting, you're not gonna win this champion. Skarner, he's a strong tank. He's a fun tank champion. In all honesty, Skarner can work, but I'm never going to prescribe you guys tanks to play that like are okay. If I'm gonna prescribe you guys a tank to play, I want to see you guys playing Udyr, Rammus, Amumu, Mundo. Like, those champions are just better. Like, Skarner can work, but you also can mess up so much on Skarner where you're fucking ulting poorly, you're E'ing poorly, you're using like their two crucial CC spells poorly, and you fuck it up. On Rammus, you can't fuck it up. You tap E on them and they cannot fucking move. On Amumu, you really can't mess it up. If you mess it up on Amumu, that's no longer a tier list issue or a champion issue. That's on you. Last up here is we have Warwick. Warwick, I can argue and say that maybe he's B tier. Maybe. But I'm gonna throw him in the C tier here because I am just not a Warwick fan, okay? This is my tier list. I get to put him where I want to put him. I'm not a fan of Warwick. I don't like telling lower elo players to play Warwick, especially when Briar exists. Maybe in a world where Briar doesn't exist, Warwick can be good and Warwick should be in the A or S tier. But Briar just does what Warwick wishes in all the ways better. Warwick has like an team fear. You know what? Briar has that too, 5 times the range. Warwick stat checks, okay? But Briar does that too, and she heals way more, and she does way more damage. Okay, Warwick has some sort of like escape with his E and like damage reduction. Briar not only has damage reduction, she also heals, and she also pushes you away and deals damage. Like, Briar just does everything so much better, it feels like. The only thing that Warwick like generally is stronger at is getting early game kills because he can run around the map with his W and hunt. That's the only thing that Warwick kind of like just, just beats like almost all champions at other than Nunu. He can run around the map and hunt. But I don't think that's what— that— I don't think that makes Warwick a really, really good champ. Next up, we have champions in the D tier. D tier, all these champions are literally way too hard to play. They need such good mechanics or such good understanding of the game. If you're new, new to the game, if you've been Iron, Bronze, Silver for a while, you are not going to be able to pick up these champions and win games, okay? Pantheon is the one champion here that a lot of people question because they see him in pro play and because he's a global. I wouldn't play any of these champions, okay? Kindred, Taliyah, too hard mechanically, and Aatrox, too hard mechanically. Vi is a strong bruiser, but there are just better bruisers who are faster. Sejuani is a tank, I wouldn't let anyone play that. And Cho'Gath is just like a fun champion where it's like, if you want to have a good time and you want to feast, you could play Cho'Gath. She's just a funny champion. In the F tier, we have Rengar, Talon, Kha'Zix, and Zed. There is one thing all these champions have in common, and it's they're, they're assassins. And I, I, I should make a full video on why assassins are just not good for lower elo players. I, I really should. And honestly, lowkey, I'm writing that down right now. Why are assassins so bad? I'm gonna give you guys a quick TL;DR. Assassins are so bad for lower elo players to play because they just teach the worst things ever. And there's no clean way to end a League of Legends game. Like, it's really hard to give a low elo player who doesn't know what champions do in the game, who is like, who doesn't understand items, who is like pretty fresh, to play an assassin and expect them to win and like kill people. You— the way assassins work is you need to understand, oh, this champion is squishy. Oh, this champion doesn't have like, Mel W. Oh, this champion doesn't have a reflect or a damage reduction. So I can kill them. That's what an assassin does, is you use those small openings to kill someone. That's the same way a ninja does things in real life. That's the same way an assassin does things in real life. Like, you need to find their weaknesses. If you're a brand new player, how are you finding their weaknesses? Okay, let's say you played the game for 3 years and you're like, maybe I should— maybe I want to play an assassin. Well, I'm going to be honest, if you're very low rank and you've been low rank for 3+ years, the answer is not an assassin. The answer is a generic easy champion in the S or A tier. I'm gonna be completely honest. And finally, guys, this is just my overall thoughts. Screw the tier list. Sometimes you want to play what you enjoy. Play what you enjoy. I can't stress this enough. There are some people who are really competitive and they want to win games. If you want to win games, you want to be a meta slave, play the S and A tier champions. I am giving you the answer for a reason. But if you want to go have fun and go enjoy the game, don't even be on this video. This is not the video for you. I am making this video for people who are genuinely serious about climbing and winning games in League of Legends. Okay? But, but again, League of Legends is supposed to be a fun game. If you want to go play fun champions and enjoy yourself, go play those fun champions and enjoy yourself. There's nothing wrong with that. Alrighty guys, if you enjoyed this video, make sure to take a look at junglekingdom.gg. /tierlist for this entire tier list there. If you click on any champion, you get to see a bit of an overview guide that I personally worked on with my coaches on making the builds as accurate as possible. Some of them we're still working on as we go. But yeah, if you guys enjoyed the video, leave a like, comment, subscribe, and I hope this helps you guys understand what's going to be good in the next patch.