Jungle Tier List Meta Champions for Patch 26.7

Jungle Tier List Methodology

How JunglerGG determines the Best Junglers and Jungle Meta Rankings

League of Legends tier lists are a great way to showcase the viability of jungle champions in the current LoL Jungle meta. Knowing which champions are at the top and bottom will allow you to maximize your chances of winning games and climbing ranks. When checking out tier lists always keep in mind that they're mostly opinion-based —which can be good and bad, depending on how you look at them. We encourage you to look at a few jg tier lists and make the conclusions yourself, but in general you are going to see similar trending champions within certain tiers on most jungle tier lists.

Please take into account that this is mostly a Jungler Tier list for solo queue, meaning that some low-tiered champions may actually be better for highly organized team play such as Flex 5v5 and Clash. Our LoL Jungle Tier list is updated daily for every patch. If you're looking to find the best junglers and meta jungle champions for solo queue, JunglerGG has your back.

Criteria considered for our tier list:

• Official patch notes that bring champion changes which result in a shift within the jungle meta.
• Individual champions' win-rate, popularity, pick/ban-rate, and other statistics (a high win-rate champion will usually be in one of the upper tiers).
• Champion's viability for climbing through ranks (their spell kit, game impact, and whether they're able to solo carry games).
• Performance in different skill brackets: Gold-Plat, Plat-Diamond, Diamond-Challenger
• Skill cap: for example, Kha'Zix is much easier to master than Rengar, so he may be positioned higher in the Tier List if they're rated similar in other criteria.
• Number of counter champions with high popularity and low ban-rate.

Keeping all of these different points of criteria in mind, we've ranked all jungle-viable champions into six different tiers (their position within a certain tier does not matter).

Major patches that come out every two weeks can shift the meta quite quickly depending on the amount of champion changes that Riot has decided to make. Such patches often shift the jungle meta significantly, pushing different junglers up and down on the jg tier list.

The champion's performance is also equally as important as the other points. Most champions perform very differently when played throughout different skill brackets. For example, even though Karthus is a great pick for high elo, he won't perform as well in Bronze simply because the player may not get enough time to scale up and carry the game. His allies will often flame him for not being able to contest objectives or put as much gank pressure as some other strong jungle champions might and games will be done before they even begin.

At the end of the day, champion statistics are possibly the heaviest points of criteria we have. As you already know, JunglerGG acquires champion statistics from ranked matches in order to get the average values that are shown in our individual champion guides. These statistics are aimed towards the Platinum rank and above, with most focusing on getting a general idea of what champions are doing well in the current meta.

Even though statistics aren't everything, a 54% win-rate champion is still going to be somewhere between the S and A tier, simply because a high win-rate is usually coupled by other things such as: ease of play, high performance, great build diversity and a low number of counters.

The main purpose of this jungle tier list is to help keep you up to date and track meta junglers during every patch. If you're eager to learn more about a certain jungler champion, such as which rune and item build to go for, or what jungle path to follow, click on a specific champion in the tier list to open their dedicated guide.

For more insights into the current LoL jungle meta and updates to our jg tier list, check back every patch and good luck on the Summoner's Rift!