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Yes.

;) She can do anything really. Either one.

Good work, the tier list is great! I can't say that I disagree with anything listed.

Alright, I've actually been reading your tier lists for almost a year and a half now, but I finally decided to register and comment. I'm a low elo scrub (like 1274 elo atm or something), and these lists and explainations have been very helpful.

This list looks very accurate to me. While I'm low elo, I watch streams about 5 times as much as I play (high elo streams, and also GuardsmanBob and Rexgar. Plugs for them. Those last two streamers are awesome). This list seems to match with what I see on streams.

But I have three questions. I'm only seeking to understand; not trying to raise hell and say x champ needs to be way higher.

1) Why is Ziggs so low? I certainly don't see him much, but when I have, he's seemed to have been a good pick. He is in the counter pick category like Swain, Leblanc and Kassadin? Does he have some glaring weakness that I'm unaware of like Katarina (she's awesome, but only if there's no CC). Is he overnerfed or percieved to be overnerfed like Orianna and Akali? Or is his potential just yet to be discovered, or is he just not popular like Xerath?

2) Why is Annie so high? Again, I'm seeking to understand. She certainly has a lot of burst, and she's a bit tanky; her AoE stun can turn around a team fight for sure, but she seems like she can get torn apart by a lot of lanes because it's very obvious when her stun is up, and she has a short cast range. Am I unaware of some awesome synergy with jungler ganks or something that warrents Annie her spot?

3) Why is Brand so low? It's been a long time since I've seen a Brand. The only one I know who plays him is GuardsmanBob, and he seems to do rather well with him generally. I'm guessing it's a combination of Brand's shorter range, mostly skill shot (and rather easy to dodge) harass, and his wonky random ult that can hit a champion and then bounce the rest of it's duration off in the wraith camp that makes him so weak. In your opinion Elementz, why is he so low? (I don't want him moved up, I just want to understand your viewpoint more)

Thanks for all the work you do! I'm really looking forward to the other lists.

Ziggs: He's low to me because he doesn't do that much. His damage isn't bad, but it isn't amazing either. His all out burst leaves a bit to be desired, and his sustained requires landing skillshots. He can do global damage, but it isn't game changing like tf or gp.

Annie: I don't know, I think ele likes annie. I think she's more of a counterpick/soloq champion at the moment, but as you said, her ult is one of the most disruptive in the game. She's amazing if you can compensate for her weaknesses, but she does have significant weaknesses, which keeps her out of tier 1.

Brand: He's combo based, all his skills require the enemy to be clumped up to be effective, he's squishy, has very little utility, and has no escapes. He has above average laning, mind, and his full damage can be signifigant, but his long term impact is less than other champions in his role.

Thanks for the reply sir. Good reasoning. Thanks for pointing out those things. I appreciate it. I especially hadn't thought about Brand not bringing any reliable utility. Sure, there's the stun on Q, but that's a single target, and could easily hit the wrong target in a big team fight. Good point.

for me fizz is in tier 1 even if he's nerfed because i discover how to counter ahri, ryze and other tier 1 ap with fizz by using e first instead of using q.

Numbered tier lists! My instinctual fear and loathing of things that are different has been averted. I can now sleep sanely at night, and my pitchfork and torches can stay safely in my garage.

Seriously though, thanks for listening to your community. This is a much cleaner, more complete, and most importantly balanced looking list. You may be back into the swing of things already. 

I agree Elementz. I really like this style of tier list better. Thanks for adapting to the community, especially by giving us a video commentary and a written commentary. We aren't as smart as you are (sometimes ;P) so it helps to have your reasoning laid in front of us.

Hey, thanks for coming back and doing the tier lists again.  Even if people don't say it very much, what you do is really helpful for people like me in the mid-low elo brackets.  Keep it up!

I understand Heimer has problems. I am wonder why he is dead last though? I feel like he can beat many of the AP carries listed above him. I'm thinking part of the problem may be how he fits into a team comp?

AP TRISTANA, i play them and dominate, im pretty sure scarra does as well as has in pro games, " It's probably because I don't and other competitive teams don't value them as competitive picks." - well scarra does.

Their e has 1 to 1 scaling and does scary amounts of base damage, and reduces healing, surefire was to secure the kill especially combined with ignite. Ulti scales over 1 to 1 ratio hits like a fucking truck 600 base at lvl 16 ( that has to be one of the higher/highest base damages of a targeted spell, besides veigar ult :D). The w does alright damage nothing special but the cooldown reset is amazing, especially if your AP its just AOE bam bam bam. DFP + ignite + e + w + r. That will kill anyone im pretty sure and unless they are fed and somehow have bulk mr. But when u get dfg first item. The enemy mid lane will die. cause in most cases( or assuming u can do a small amount of harrass say an e or 2) you can jump not onto them just in range then dfg ignite e r and they will die. I agree they aren't a hyper carry or anything of the likes. But they are a godlike assasin counter AP. The total damage potential might be less that veigar and le blanc ( not exactly sure). But when i play them it feels the easier to get bulk kills and pub stomp, if enemy mid is in the lane they are dead? oh nice tower jump in insta kill + knock away to let dots kill + keep me safe, jump out.

TLDR: TRIST ES NUMERO UNO. 

Is this for solo queue or competitive? Because I (along with many others) belive that TF is deserving of T1 in a solo queue list, for his ult allows other lanes to snowball hard, and with the general lack of communication in solo queue its rarely noted when TF ults.