The definitive League of Legends tier list: The best Champions on Patch 26.20

Naerlyn Last Updated October 11, 2026

Patch 26.20 contains the last balance changes for LoL Worlds 2026! As is tradition, this is a relatively safer patch, with minor changes to keep champions in check and buff playmakers.

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 26.20.

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.

Singed, to shake or not to shake

Singed is most of the time one of the best top laners and a champion that nobody picks. The mad scientist just runs around, too fast to be caught but too obnoxious to ignore. While he’s really hard to pick up, he’s no easier to play against, making him a very advantageous champion to learn.

Singed can melt tanks later on in the game, and prevent bruisers from playing the way they want to. Lastly, teams don’t learn to coordinate to answer his proxy strategy.

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.

Best junglers in LoL: Rammus

Cho’Gath, the thing under the bed

For a long time, players have favored carry junglers and forgotten about the tanks. Then, pros started picking jungle Cho again.

Cho’Gath has easy CC to land with his silence, a long-range engage for ganks, and deceptive burst in the early levels. With Hail of Blades, he’s a fearsome duelist, and everyone knows the terror of facing him when his ult is up.

Additionally, Cho’Gath can always stack his Feast while in the jungle, since there’s no risk of needing to recall or there being no wave as the spell will come up. It’s also in the jungle that he will most easily have a champion or epic monster available to eat. Lastly, no need to worry about 50-50 objectives when he’s got two smites.

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Best mid lane champions: Tier list

Ekko, the True Damage star

Ekko didn’t need buffs to slingshot back to being the best mid laner. With a worse early game than AD assassins, but a better one than Akali, he can waveclear efficiently until he jumps into relevance. Once Ekko unlocks his ult, he becomes much safer, but also forces the opponent to always be on their toes. Lose track of where Ekko was four seconds ago and you’ll suddenly see your health bar vanish.

Arcane’s boy savior can splitpush excellently. Ekko’s teamfights are harder to navigate, although he’s safer than the other assassins. In a sidelane though, he’s right where he belongs. As a splitpusher, Ekko can oneshot anyone who gets in his way, but he also melts turrets with his E and Lich Bane.

Best mid lane champions in LoL: Ekko

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.

Tristana, the bot lane assassin

On patch 26.16, almost all ADCs received +3 MR. Tristana, on the other hand, got +5 as her baseline was lower to nerf her in the mid lane. With an 18% increase to that stat, she’s suddenly much more resilient to the damage type of half the bot lane champions.

Much like Jinx, Tristana is a hypercarry with high range, attack speed, and AoE, who excels at destroying turrets. However, whereas Jinx scales better, Tristana also doubles down as an assassin, capable of taking out any squishy target at all levels.

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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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