[Set 9] Meta Snapshot - Patch 13.12

Prioritize zeke’s herald in this comp, as it synergizes very well with jayce’s ability, the gunners trait, and rageblade, as it’s zeri’s best item. The other items can be any AD items, but qss is amazing to prevent jarvan and sion CC. Don’t play 4 gunner until you hit senna or have +1 gunner, and just play any 4 and 5 cost frontliners you hit until then. You can also run the piltover version, but this one is better as you can drop the last whisper on Zeri for a better damage or healing item when you're running 2 freljord.

This comp is more on the expensive side, so it’s hard to play from behind, as we need to hit a lot of 2star 4costs, and we also want to have 3 items on 3 different champions. This comp is really flexible with its frontline: the only 3 constants on your board should be sejuani, aphelios, and urgot. Usually you just play freljord so you can forgo building last whisper, but it can be dropped. Once again, the frontline is very flexible, but you should usually play taric, shen, and lissandra as well. You can drop 4 deadeye for stronger legendaries like Sion and Senna, as the trait really doesn’t do anything, but it’s good to play if you get +1 deadeye. Aphelios requires rageblade to be a carry; without it, I would just avoid him altogether. His other best items are just any damage items, but raw damage is best. Urgot is a drain tank that scales really well off of both AD and AP, so making 3 good items like titan’s and healing for him is how you top 2 with this comp, but other AD items are fine. Put your tank items on Sejuani, and make sure to have taric between your frontliners, as his spell blocks damage on both him and adjacent allies.

This comp is only good if you manage to hit multiple zeke’s, as it allows garen to start ramping his attack speed quickly; without them, it’s too slow and he will not be able to drain tank and just die. Because of this, twisted fate is the best legend, as pandora’s items will allow you to force the zeke’s components easily. You should only reroll this comp on level 7, as you need garen 3 to do well. Sona is better than lux as her ult gives garen attack speed. If you hit +1 juggernaut, you can play 6 juggernaut on level 7 and put the spat on jarvan. This comp is only good from the right spot though, as without the right setup, you will just go eighth. Garen’s strict best in slot items are rageblade and bt, the 3rd item is the demacia radiant item, so leave the 3rd slot open on him.

This is a one-cost reroll comp, so you should never level on stage 2 and hoard as much gold as possible until stage 3-1, where you should roll down to about 30 gold to hit as many 1-cost units as possible, then slowroll on level 5 until 4-1, where you roll the rest of your gold to hit if you haven’t already. If your legend is lee sin and you take on a roll though, you play much differently: instead of hoarding your gold, you hold all 1-cost pairs on your bench at the cost of gold, sell any extra units you 2-star, and try to get as many shop refreshes as possible until you hit your 3-stars. Once you hit, level to 6 for yordle and try to go 8 for 4 gunner and heimerdinger. The third yordle can be either kled or teemo, it doesn’t really matter. Itemize maokai with your tank items instead of poppy, since she’s a really bad unit and you want to 4-star your tristana. There are two core items on tristana: last whisper and gunblade, though hoj is a suitable replacement. The third item can be anything, but the best is giant slayer followed by runaan’s and guardbreaker. Any extra frontline items should go on viego, and any extra carry items can go on jinx if you 3-star her, zeri, or viego.

The comp is pretty flexible in general, but I’d always recommend playing at least 5 shurima, as getting the ascension value on nasus and akshan is very valuable, as they both do a lot of damage. Play either cassio or Taliyah until you hit ksante, and the other units should be any frontline units like sejuani, shen, sion, or urgot. The only mandatory frontliner is jarvan. If you get a shurima spat, you should always play 7 shurima. However, it’s important to note that 7shurima has been bugged for the whole of pbe cycle, it made units ascend twice which is not intended, so it won’t be as good on live once that bug is fixed. Jarvan is usually the best holder of shurima spat, since he really benefits off the hp and sometimes gets a second cast off, which often wins you the fight. If you’re able to hit 2-star legendaries though, putting the spat on sion or aatrox if you have items for him will be a lot stronger. Itemizing nasus is surprisingly very important in this comp, as he is often the real carry of your board. You can itemize him as a standard tank with items like warmogs, spark, bramble, and dclaw, but he also works as a drain tank with titans and bloodthirster. Azir’s best items are scaling items, specifically archangel’s and rageblade, and any ap items will do otherwise. Consider itemizing akshan as well with spare items, as he does a ton of damage with 5 or more shurima, and can snipe backlines if positioned correctly. The positioning for this comp is mostly simple: put ksante in front of their strongest tank that’s not jarvan or sion, because they will dash away, and put jarvan on the same side as their carry, so that he jumps and stuns them. Besides that try to keep your own Azir safe from threats like rouges and sion, as well as CC from units like Jarvan.