Patch 12.1 SoloQ Toplane Tierlist

in 12.1 Force of nature gets buffed quite a bit, which will help certain champions like Darius, it gets built too late into the game for this buff to really matter in the sense of winrate growth, but its a nice thing.

Shieldbow Wits end nerf means Akshan is weaker, and same for graves yone yasuo, you can try galeforce if u want, but im not sure how good it is.

Teleport change means less impact for bruisers with push like renekton who has alot of tp windows, or tanks that wants to sack lane and gank. Generally speaking i think this is going to help bruisers like Fiora Jax Camille tryndamere darius more than other champs because they benefit from 1v1ing and forcing enemy into a 1v1, and also most of them have low waveclear so they couldnt tp pre 14 anyways.

Jax should be alot better in general atm as there is tons of AD damage auto attack based champions in the games that are played right now and a lack of AP toplaners, he also has good build vs the meta champs ( frozen heart for example ) and doesnt care about shieldbow nerf. He is fine vs yone yasuo toplane which people like.

GP up a tier, very hard champ tho he is Close to S for certain players and higher rank the higher elo you are,  he is better now due to buff, changes to game ( slower game, more comeback potential, more laning 1v1 )

Renekton can go even 1v1 vs the meta tops and can stomp some of them like yone yasuo if played correctly, issue is its hard to snowball for him since no TP to botlnae to really snowball the game and use his lead in early game, so he is not moving up but u can think about picking him.

Trundle up a tier, does great vs alot of the meta toplaners and most champs top in general, has good items and extremely strong 1v1 potential which leads into splitpush win condition, some good matchups: almost all tanks ( sion ornn cho etc really good ) trynda irelia renekton sett. do not play it vs jax or teemo! XD

Darius is a bit weaker ( alot of range champs in top like akshan graves kennen ) and people have more reason to go ignite or ghost vs u to match now that they dont lose chance to tp gank.

Morde down a tier ( lack of hardcore melees / tanks in top its mainly very mobile champs or range champs who also have sustain ( wits end shiedlbow ) which counters morde )

Tryndamere is a good champ some games right now, vs akshan yasuo yone graves he does quite well, into gp jayce its playable too just rough early.


Camille down from god tier and moved to s+ , still a fine champion has everything youd want a champion to have, good gank assist vs the range champs too and good sustain + runepage.

Fiora S+ If given right situations, but when vs champs that will bully her early she loses too much gold and falls behind, so she is down a tier.

Akshan  is S+ , good waveclear, good 1v1 lane, good snowball, amazing roams. his items got nerfed which is kinda making me wanna put him S but he is a good and safe toplane blind aswell which makes him very strong.


Shen still a good S+ tank champ, a bit worse i guess but tbh he does fine vs some of these auto reliant toplaners so he is good, also can go ignite and itll feel less bad

Malphite is alot better does well vs alot of the meta tops (Yone yasuo ( go PTA Resolve) jax fiora jayce akshan (go oblv orb vs akshan shieldbow)  graves matchup is playable in soloq)

green = easy | blue = medium | red= hard