Patch 13.18-B Meta Snapshot (2nd week)

This is a 3-cost and 4-cost carry comp, so you want to mainly roll on level 7. Rolling on level 6 early stage 3 is a great option for this comp sometimes as there’s often a lot of ways to spike your board. If you hit a sorc spat, you should usually put it on shen, but it can also go on your multicaster if you are carrying velkoz. All 3 carries generally use most of the same items well, so you should itemize your strongest carry first, whether it be velkoz 3, silco, or ahri, but usually it’s going to be silco. While rolling on 8, you should hold as many swains and velkozes as possible and make the decision whether you are going to push for a fast 8 or roll for swain 3 velkoz 3 once you stabilize. The main priority for this comp is to build ionic spark and a bunch of mana items to itemize multiple carries, with blue buff being the best, adaptive helm second, and shojin the worst. The best damage items are jg, guardbreaker, giant slayer, and deathcap. As a final note, this comp is especially overpowered with manazane, which is the best ornn item, so you should usually be hardforcing this comp if you have it.

There are a few ways to play gunners in the current meta, but the best is to play it from a piltover cashout and carry aphelios and jayce, itemizing whoever you upgrade first, and eventually both of them. When you play this, you want to open fort until 3-5, level to 7 and roll all of your gold to make sure you cash out within the next few turns. You can also play this comp without piltover; just drop ekko from this board and play flex frontline units. Jarvan is a placeholder for any frontliner like nasus, nautilus, aatrox, or shen. Drop vi when you hit sion and graves when you hit gangplank. Jayce and aphelios have similar itemization, but both like attack speed and damage amp, like rageblade, qss, last whisper, giant slayer, ie, and runaan’s. Deathblade and gunblade are also good options.

Bruiser chogath is a 1-cost reroll comp that changes depending on your opener and what units you hit. You always want to econ up until 3-1 and then hyperroll on lvl 4, usually until 30 gold, then slowroll level 5 until you hit. Your backline carry should either be malzahar or cassio, depending on who you find more of on stage 2. If you hit chogath 3 and aren’t close to 3-star malz or cassio, you can push levels for more bruisers and play around silco as your secondary carry. If you get an early shurima spat, you can put it on chogath and play vertical shurima. The best augments for this comp are bruiser +1, titanic strength, endurance training, impenetrable bulwark, and stable evolution, so keep an eye out for those. Chogath’s best items are redemption, d claw, and bramble. If you can get an anima visage or radiant d-claw, your chogath often becomes unkillable. Put any extra tank items on renekton if you 3-star him, otherwise put them on sejuani. If you are ahead, consider going for reksai 3 and itemizing him to cap out. His best items are titans, bt, sterak’s, titan’s, and night harvester.

This is a 1 and 2cost reroll comp, first you will slowroll at level 5 until you hit Samira 3star, then you will push level 6 for (5 Noxus + Naafiri) and slowroll until you have Swain/Naafiri 3star. After that push for vertical noxus to buff up samira even further. Samira wants Bluebuff + Edge of night + BT. Blubuff makes her cast more often and reduces the enemy armor, resuting in more damage for her and naafiri. Edge of night is so the enemy team dropps aggro on her once Naafiri dies. BT is to heal back up from the splash damage she takes from the 2nd row. The reason we have her in the 2nd row alone with Naafiri is to make the Darkin buff pass over to Samira 100% of the time, which will make samira deal insane amounts of Damge. Put tank items on Swain, and extra AD items on Naafiri.

The next comp is challengers. This is a 4-cost comp that relies heavily on hitting 2-stars, so you almost always want to fast 7 and roll aggressively. If you have +1 challenger, consider going 8 earlier if you think you’re stable enough so you can fit your board. There are multiple ways to fit your board on level 7: you always play 4 challenger plus nasus or aatrox, then you either play 6 challenger with samira and irelia, 4 juggernaut with sett and nautlius, or 3 demacia with jarvan and quinn. Fiora’s itemization is much more important than kaisa: her best items are bt, night harvester, and titan’s, but you can get away with other AD items sometimes. You should generally plan on playing demacia for the radiant sterak’s, prioritize bt plus one damage item. Kaisa’s most important item is shojin; after that, any AP items are good, like deathcap, jg, guardbreaker, giant slayer, and archangel’s.