League of Legends Patch 9.10 tier list: mid lane

Who usurped Zed for the title of the best mid laner in League of Legends in Patch 9.9?

Our League of Legends first tier list of Patch 9.10 takes us to the mid lane, where we see if anyone has toppled Zed and Ahri at the top of the pack. With no direct buffs or nerfs to mid lane champions (other than Brand, sort of) or their core runes or items, you’d expect the list to remain static. But now that Scuttle Crab had it’s spawn time moved later by a minute and a half, many were predicting that the reign of hard-shoving early game laners would be coming to an end.

As always, these rankings are determined by collecting data from the tier lists and rankings of eight different sites to give you the average strength of each champion in the five roles of League of Legends. To explain how we develop this tier list we take each rating for the tier list and normalize that value, making sure that an A rating on one site and a “God tier” rating on another can be accurately compared. This is done by creating a normalized value based on all rankings given out by that site so the average standardized rating is 0.00 with higher numbers being good to very good rankings and negative numbers being bad rankings.

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However, for this patch, we have added three new tiers: A+, B+, and F. This was done in an effort to give a bit more differentiation among the very top of the tier list.

If you’re interested, you can also find all of the underlying data for this and all the past patches here. When evaluating the sites and tier lists, we tried to only use data for Platinum plus players. The individual sites we audited are also listed below (note the rankings are as of 5 PM EST on May 16).

The tier list for mid lane in Patch 9.10, as determined by the average ranking among the following sites, excluding the highest and lowest scores:

• MetaSRC
• U.gg
• Op.gg
• Lolalytics
• Mobalytics
• Rankedboost
• Proguides
• Tierlist.gg

The tier list

S tier: Zed, Ahri
A+ tier: Vladimir, Talon
A tier: Malzahar, Fizz, Katarina, Yasuo, Sylas
B+ tier: Morgana, Lux, Vel’Koz, Xerath
B tier: Neeko, Orianna, Zoe, Kassadin, Anivia, Veigar, Ekko, Aatrox
C tier: Corki, Taliyah, Zilean, Akali, Leblanc, Twisted Fate, Karthus, Irelia, Ryze, Cassiopeia, Syndra
D tier: Rumble, Azir, Ziggs, Diana, Jayce, Lissandra, Annie, Viktor
F tier: Aurelion Sol, Swain