The definitive League of Legends tier list: The best Champions on Patch 26.19

Naerlyn Last Updated September 25, 2026

Patch 26.19 starts going into the territory of minor changes as Worlds 2026 is just around the corner. With this event, Riot will also have a tendency of buffing playmaking champions more.

So if you’re looking for the best champions to carry your ranked LoL games with in Season 3, search no further! Here’s our League of Legends tier list for patch 26.19.

Best top lane champions: Tier list

Camille, back to her lane

Camille strangely benefitted from being played as a support by the pros. In order to tone her down, Riot adjusted her in a way that nerfed her support role, but buffed her for top. Now, she’s one of the best splitpushers for her lane while remaining an excellent initiator.

Camille has a quiet laning phase, after which she becomes unstoppable for most champions in a 1v1. If she can sit in a side lane unattended, the turrets won’t last long. If someone comes to stop her, she will likely win. And should several opponents arrive, she’s got high mobility to get away.

Gwen, revived from her nerfs

The Seamstress was one of the best top lane picks at the start of 2026 thanks to the release of Dusk and Dawn. Riot then nerfed her, and she had since then lost her place as the best top laner. Gwen has now been buffed twice again, giving her a much smoother laning phase.

Once she gets her first item, she’s still as much of a menace as she was at the start of the season. Dusk and Dawn allows her to opt into short trades with burst, while she already has more DPS than most top laners. Gwen can become a teamfighter with a full AP build, but she’s otherwise an excellent splitpusher.

Best jungle champions: Tier list

Rammus, doing OK

In 2026, the strongest junglers are all champions with high sustain or auto-attackers. Rammus happens to be exceptionally strong against champions with high attack speed, and to always build Bramble Vest as his first item.

The armadillo is very draft-dependent, being too good against many champions and invisible against many others. So when the patch favors a majority of junglers that he’s great against, he’s a great jungle pick. Which happens to be the case most of the time, so Rammus is always a good pick to have in store.

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Wukong, the trickster

Wukong is a champion with a low skill floor and very high potential. With a less straightforward playstyles than the other bruisers in Vi, Jarvan IV, or Lee Sin, he has more diversity.

Obviously, Wukong’s ultimate makes him an initiator and a great teamfighter. Beyond it though, he’s also got high damage in 1v1s. Wukong’s mobility and stealth also gives him some safety when counter-jungling.

With mobility for the jungle, for ganks, and for objective steals, he’s always a solid pick. Currently, his damage and early spike with Trinity Force pushes him to the top as one of the best junglers.

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Best mid lane champions: Tier list

Xerath, winning from one screen away

Even more so than the other mages, Xerath is content staying one screen away from his foes – and hitting them from there. The Archmage has the strongest artillery in the game. Xerath’s combos end up being able to take down a full health carry, and if he misses a Q, he can try again three seconds later.

Xerath is a safe pick, who doesn’t have to wonder whether he should go in or not. The answer is always no, he doesn’t need to.

Lightning never strikes twice, because the enemies will be dead after the first hit.

LoL tier list best mid lane champs: Xerath.

Fizz and the troll pole

For as long as solo queue has existed, players have hated facing Fizz. The aquatic Yordle is frustrating to play against, and for good reason.

Fizz has to weather the storm for a few levels as his early laning is close to non-existent. From level 6 onward though, one shark that hits can mean a kill. Fizz can threaten his lane opponent that way, while having decent wave clear that only gets better with time.

Thanks to it, he can roam and terrorize the bot lane instead. Should anything get dicy, Fizz’s E can get him out of absolutely anything. Ganks, counter-roams, ults, turret shots, this spell is what gives Fizz the agency to carry his games.

Best bot lane champions: Tier list

Jinx, the return of hypercarries

Since Classic and until now, Jinx has been the premier crit champion and hypercarry. No matter what happens, she will become a threat.

The star of Arcane has a weak early game and needs to stay cautious for a while. Afterwards, the moment she’s left alone with a turret, that building is gone and her pockets fill up.

With mages getting nudged out of the bot lane in 26.16, Jinx is a great beneficiary of the class-wide ADC buffs. Once again, she can safely scale to walk up to a teamfight and take over after a single kill.

Yasuo, the wind brother

Everyone has faced a bot lane Yasuo once, and loathed the experience. What’s worse is when he’s meta and actually strong. Since the buffs to his passive increasing his critical damage again, Yasuo has become one of the best bot laners.

In a duo lane, Yasuo can easily gain an advantage by having a better early game. A 2v2 and long lane allows him to get up the opponents’ faces, strike, and back out safely. Bot laners can’t play against the wind wall either.

The one downside is that he’s much harder to play in the mid game, to the point where he regularly throws his lead. Yasuo wants to regroup instead of staying on his sidelane to get ganked, but the lack of a real, ranged ADC prevents from pushing turrets in the mid lane.

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Best support champions: Tier list

Taric, truly outrageous

Taric is one of those forgotten champions as most of his kit isn’t visible or convenient to land. However, he’s a solid pick into both enchanters and tank supports. Against tanks, his passive allows him to repeatedly chain his spells, giving him strong utility and even damage. Against enchanters, his stun provides him with good burst to take them down.

Taric’s ult is also one of the strongest spells in the game. Despite being harder to play around, it has insane potential paired up with a solid baseline. To ward off divers, dispel AoE ults, nullify an engage comp, or allow the team to engage while invulnerable during an objective stand-off, this ultimate can turn games around. The paladin fills a unique niche in the support role, and he’s currently very strong.

Taric is one of the best supports in LoL in Season 2026. Image Source: Riot Games

Braum, shields and smiles

Braum protects his marksman, stuns the opponents, and has good damage in lane. This champion provides very little risk, makes life easy for his partner, and can even make plays. While he’s been nerfed two patches in a row, he remains as much of a trustworthy pick.

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Braum has both a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling, while being a great champion overall. One underappreciated advantage of the pick: people like playing with a Braum, and expect a Braum player to be nice. While it may sound dumb, passively boosting the morale of the team does increase the odds of winning.

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