as we near the halfway mark of 11.6 we're excited to bring you guys the fully updated mid-patch tier
list thanks to the help of our challenger players and using the most up-to-date stats before we
get into it which item do you guys think is the most broken in the entire game right now
personally i'm getting a little tired of ever frost after it's buffs from a few patches back
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button so you don't miss out and with all that being said let's jump right into the tier list
kicking it off up in top lane let's talk a little bit about darius the stridebreaker and starix nerf
in 11.6 have resulted in darius becoming slightly weaker but unfortunately or fortunately depending
on who you ask he will continue to hold on to an op tier position it's kind of crazy to think riot
has nerfed sterics and stride breaker multiple times now but these champions still remain on
top of the meta with another nerf in the coming patches we could definitely see darius dropping
down to s but for now continue to abuse the hand of noxus while you can as a result of his buffs
in 11.6 silas is an s tier pick for both top and mid so don't sleep on him he stomps all over meta
champs like malphite gnar and cho'gath combined with the fact akali is seeing more play now after
her buffs is amazing for silas too similar to most top laners silas has had his weaker match-ups
against some bruisers like darius and ergot so banning one of them out is a great idea all in
all we would highly recommend adding stylus to your champ pool and using them as a counter to
those op metapix as everything's settling out here after the massive akali changes she's fitting in
nicely as a b-tier top lane pick the changes shifted power away from her early game to give
more scaling strength and it's been a successful adjustment so far by no means is kali a top tier
pick however she is in a much better spot and at least a playable champion now for 11.6 the rest of
the top lane tier list is pretty close to where we had it in our pre-patch update riven darius ergot
malphite and garen will each lock down a spot as our op picks of the patch despite his nerf to w
urbagot still got control over the top lane meta and remains a high priority carry pickup for solo
q even after the stridebreaker nerfs it's still a great purchase on many of these bruiser top laners
as it's only dropped their power levels ever so slightly overall whatever you've been playing up
in the top lane over the past while really hasn't been affected drastically by the changes we saw
this patch moving all the way from b into s tier has been volley bare the two buffs volley received
to help out is clear have turned him into a much more viable jungler and a top tier one at that
surprise surprise volley can also abuse the busted move speed setup of chem tank into dead man's
and force of nature this setup gives volleyball lots of strength in the mid game as his reliable
engaged power is very high the bear is back so look to pick up some freelo before everyone else
catches on nocturne has had a huge rise in power over the past few patches due to the strength of
stridebreaker in hysterics knock was on our radar to move into s tier for the pre-patch update but
we wanted to wait and see how the stridebreaker nerfs would affect him before moving him up
even with the item nerfs jungle nocturne's win rate has actually slightly improved for 11.6
so we've got that confirmation to bump him into s tier for an update on shinzo he's been performing
pretty mediocre thus far the removal of strength from his passive and q for a longer dash range
when comboing w with e hasn't resulted in the best trade-off we'll continue to traction throughout
the next few patches but for now he'll remain in b-tier having a look at our complete jungle tier
list hecarim kha'zix and elise will continue to rise above everyone else shaco is a pick
that we're really high on at the moment and could see jump up into op within the coming patches the
buff shaco received w back in 11.5 to help with his clear has given him a nice boost in power
so he should be on your radar for 11.6 we were pretty much on the dot with our lilia prediction
as she now sits down in seatier as one of the worst junglers for the majority of elos
take advantage of these chemtank junglers while you can like hecarim skarner udyr and volley
as we expect chemtank to be nerfed in the coming patches we already moved to kali up for the
top lane tier list and she'll be seeing similar movement for mid as well we had a kali ranked as
one of the worst mid laners in the game down in d tier for previous patches but thanks to the buffs
she'll be propelled up to b tier as a result of these buffs akali is actually seeing more success
in the lower elos than in high elo that's because akali's early game is weaker now and good players
are able to exploit it harder in the lower ranks where you don't get punished as much
early on the increased scaling power helps akali out more all in all these changes are really
helping out the average akali player if you're in a cali main or very experienced on the champ
she's definitely a worthwhile pickup but there are still many stronger options on the tier list we
mentioned in our pre-patch tier list our analysts were still on the fence about moving silas nest
here but we've now got all the confirmation needed to give him the bump it was really just a matter
of time before this came to be as silos has been directly buffed a ton over the past few patches
and indirectly buffed thanks to ever frost and cosmic drive other than those two changes the rest
of the mid tier list will stay intact kassadin anivia fizz and galio remain r4 op picks the patch
ari is back in a really great spot with her new build of everfrost in the cosmic drive so now is
one of the best times to pick her up there were no direct changes in any adcs and 11.6 so we just
got a couple minor adjustments to update you on samir has been moving up again and again over
the past couple patches and will find herself back in op tier for the mid-patch update the changes to
immortal shield bow have actually turned out to be net positive for samira originally when riot
released the shield bow changes they were planning to give the lifeline passive attack speed but
instead went with ad the fact they went with ad is much better for samira which is why she's liking
the changes a lot there's so many amazing adc's to choose from for 11.6 as we have samira vayne
jinx tristana and kaiser as our best carry picks even all the champions in str are super good right
now and all just a hair below the op picks we featured vegard in our op off meta champs video so
if you're looking for an unconventional bot laner he's very undervalued tldr is that the ever frost
cosmic drive build combined with his buffs a few patches back and less punishable laning phase when
played bot is making him really strong rakan will be moving up the support to your list for 11.6 as
he's proven a big winner from the sherelia's buff sherelias is just the perfect item for rakan and
the fact that its active cooldown was reduced by 15 seconds allows him to look for pig plays way
more often rakan will be moving up from b into a tier as sherelia's was the only change that made
a difference to the support role we don't see any other movement in our mid patch update lulu leona
and thresh are by far your best solo carry pickups of the patch zillion is really underrated for mid
and support in 11.6 so if you enjoy playing those sleeper op pics he's a great one to consider
alright that's going to be all for our quick rundown of the 11.6 mid patch tier list
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