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I don't know why Nasus is that low. While he has a hard laning phase, he is at least a situational counterpick. If you pick Nasus into a farm lane, it is practically a free win for your team, at least at solo queue. I think this deserves at least tier 3, maybe even higher. At the Viktor tier list he was tier 2. And you never told us why you moved him down.

A farmed and maybe even fed Nasus is the biggest terror to an enemy team (even more than Poppy), he can nearly 5vs1, especially because of his ultimate combined with lifesteal.

Rammus seems vastly too high in solo queue.  He's been nerfed into the ground; who even picks him anymore?

Elementz, I will never understand why you would have Fiora this low. Seriously  this is solo queue we are talking about.  I feel her entire toolset was  was handcrafted for it. She literally has everything that wins solo  games: 

Lane sustain? check

Great at dueling? check

Great at pushing turrets? check

 Badass aoe ultimate? check

Yeah, coordinated teams will shut her down, bot for solo queue  she is perfect. Easily tier two, maybe higher. The only thing you need is team comp with powerful initiator , either jungler or support Leona, and you can dominate games. 

I feel that Ahri and twisted fate are valued too high. They aren't top T1 as both have some terrible matchups against easy to play champions - ryze and annie are just examples. While they bring some good stuff to a team Ahri falls of early even for an AP's and TF is very squishy and easy to chase.

Lee Sin and Udyr should be all the way up Tier1. They are very very solid toplaners with almost no bad matchup, are super versatile and are two of the best, if not THE best, junglers for soloqueue. If jungling Lee Sin can start carrying a team of randoms from lvl2 and udyr can do this from lvl 3 or 4 depending on the route. They can gank whenever they want, do any route and build (go tank, dps, supportish) what they want and are therefore unpredictable. Both have almost no fair matchups apart from eachother. When the enemy jungler is just a tiny bit reliant on his route you can invade and get rid of all early game pressure. You will turn the game into a 5v4 so easily if you know what you're doing.

Alistar should be tier 1. He is one of the strongest supports as he can devastate a lane by displacement and early burst. Ali counters a lot of weaker lanes and initiate supports (blitz, leona, naut...) From there you build tank and compared to, say, soraka you are actually über useful in teamfights. And you all know what he can do from the jungle. He's banworthy and truly one of the top picks.

Amumu is valued too low as well if you ask me. Should be among the top tier 2 champions. His skillset is built to destroy any disorganized team, and well... what do we see in SoloQ? ;-) .  His weakness is that he is prone to being invaded but he doesnt exactly die easily when countered. He can put on quite a pretty good fight at the first levels when you got the right build.

Anyways, thanks of the list. Appreciate the work you put in it. Keep it up man!
Lumni - EUW

You are wrong about Ahri and Twisted fate. In solo queue Ahri is perfectly placed by Elementz. She is (slightly) overpowered her Kill/Death ratio is about 1.4 for an avarege player. She snowballs easily out of control. She doesn’t have strong counterpicks. Her only fear should be strong ganks from the enemy jungler.  Since her release she always was more successful then morgana (morgana does well against Ahri) for example. In competetive play she is even more broken and is the single best ap champ at the moment with a average win ratio of about 57%.

Twisted fate needs probably more skill to play then ahri but is also placed right. He is very squishy and needs to be played much more carefully.

About Lee Sin and Udyr. I disagree with Elementz in this part and say that Udyr belongs in tier 3. Elementz and Stonewall overestimate Udyr quite for a while. They didn’t moved him in their Tier lists according to the nerfs. They actualy don’t realize how mediocre he is in competetive play and solo Queue. The avarage player performs slightly under 50% with him. He has no strong ganking tools (flash and orb walk won’t solve the problems), no gap closer and very little utility for the team (no ultimate and beeing only a meat shield, squishy without farm). He has so many strong counters it realy hurts, he can be countered from any position with at least 2 Champions. His strongest counters for example are Twisted Fate (gold card and red card) and Ahri (her taunt). Janna on the enemy team shuts him down very effectively. (3% global speed passive and 3 CC abilities). Ashe can kite him all day long. Udyr has at least 8 jungler over him that perform better (Skarner, Dr. Mundo, Shaco, Amumu, Nautilus…). He and his core Items have always been nerfed very hard (Wit’s end, Randuins omen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7pceX_Mnkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7pceX_Mnk so hes just O.K. but not tier 1 worthy now. Udyr is my favorite champion in the game (style) and i would realy like to see a rework on him (his passive, Tiger and bear stance) cause he is great.

Lee sin has a very High skillcap and if you are not a 1400+ player you don’t need even bother with him. At about 1350 Elo he has a performance of about 48% in avarege. But he is realy good in competetive play and in the hands of a good player he is very successful. So its ok if Elementz puts him on Tier 1.

You are absolutely right about Amumu in everything you said. Beeing buffed in 3 ways: core item sunfire cape, +mr and his ability makes him very strong if not counterjungled early (blue buff stolen). I know that amumu is overpowered (at least in low elo), and will be nerfed for sure (his lategame).

Please reconsider the position of Ziggs, Swain, and other champs that can heavily benefit from the new item "Athene's Holy Grail." This item is outstanding for mana whore champs.

while biotixin is legitimately clueless, riven is not as OP as everyone thinks, people just dont play against her right. a good renekton, kennen, olaf, teemo, kayle, garen, and even some ranged AD's counter her... with many counters out there the champion does not need to be nerfed or overhyped, people just need to learn the champs that counter her and abuse them.. riven has to play flawless to do well in many of those matchups

Riven = worst solo top champ and tier 1. gg elementz, nobody will trust u more

you suck so hard, you know that?

I don't know if Malz deserves to be moved down.  I have carried many games with him, indeed I have outcarried other fed carries.  Perhaps down to low tier 1, but with the ability to kill a champion on his own once every 75 sec or so, plus an AOE silence and an ability that can melt most of a team if given the right opportunity, I don't think Malz is tier 2.  Then again, I'm no pro.

Elementz could you please explain why you have placed Olaf in bottom tier 2? I currently believe that he is among the top 10 champions currently.

I think Fiora should be higher in Tier 4 or in Tier 3 for the following reasons.

She is a lane bully that snowballs very well, is difficult to gank and becomes a lategame nightmare if left to farm (or if she gets fed). Yes she's countered by CC and has more than a few bad lane matchups, but in solo queue teams are rarely coordinated enough to keep her CCed (see: Trynd's and Yi's success) and her ulti, farming ability and sustain make it difficult to completely force her out of lane. She also split pushes well, a valuable thing in solo queue.

Moreover, though she has bad lane matchups the Fiora player's personal skill makes a big difference in how well she does in lane. Being able to safely trade and time Riposte well can mean she gets a big advantage early on, sometimes big enough to even overcome some of her worse matchups. And, as you're so fond of saying, if you can win the lane with Fiora, you'll probably win the game.

In my opinion, you should move Karma below Heimerdinger. I realize, order isn't as important in Tier 4. But the difference in actual power between Heimer and Karma seems significant to me. A well played Heimer is much more trouble than a well played Karma.

 I'm saying this as a player who loves to play Karma ^^ 

Actually, a well played Karma is more trouble for 3 reasons:

1. Insane Burst

2. Insane team fight control with heal/shield

3. Almost impossible to kill.