Patch 13.18-B Meta Snapshot

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.

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.

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.

Noxus mordekaiser has one of the highest caps in the game under the right conditions. This comp is especially good with noxus +1 so you can easily fit 7 noxus. The best holder is aatrox, but nilah, qiyana, and nasus are serviceable until you hit him. A lot of times, you’ll want to roll on level 6 for 5 noxus on stage 3-2, as it’s a big spike for your board. By 4-1, you must roll on level 7 to hit mordekaiser and stabilize your board with at least 5 noxus; 7 if you have the spat. If you don’t have noxus +1, consider playing 4 slayers with quinn as a secondary carry. Mordekaiser needs either scoped weapons or RFC to be a real carry; ideally two RFCs, while the third item can be any damage item like giant slayer, night harvester, deathcap, jg or nashor’s. Healing other than gunblade isn’t that great on him as he is already insanely tanky, steals HP from getting kills, and gets innate healing from slayer. You should never itemize darius as a carry when playing this comp unlike last set, as he has received a bunch of nerfs. Itemize swain with tank items, and aatrox and katarina with any leftover carry items.

Strategist Azir is the weakest A tier comp in this video, but it’s still good from the right spots. This comp shines especially with zhonya’s hourglass on azir and manazane on silco. The nerfs to strategists hit this comp hard, so you should be more flexible with your board when you are rolling down. The only units that always stay on your board are azir, nasus, and jarvan. You always want a secondary carry in either MF or silco. Consider playing 4 juggernauts as it provides you with much more frontline especially if the zaun is virulent bioware for your silco. If you hit aatrox, you should always play 4 juggernauts, as he is the best unit in the game. Azir’s best items are attack speed items like nashor’s, guardbreaker, rageblade, and rfc and AP items like shiv, giant slayer, gunblade, archangel’s, and deathcap. Silco and MF always want a mana item, preferably blue buff or adaptive helm, and any AP items like jg, giant slayer, and guardbreaker. Antiheal is incredibly important for this comp, so you want to make sure to build a sunfire for your frontline or a morello on silco.