Who is the best ADC in League of Legends after Patch 9.16?

Next up in our League of Legends Patch 9.16, we break down the ADCs. We saw only a few direct buffs and nerfs to ADCs in this patch, so it will be interesting to see whether the landscape gets shaken up by the rune changes instead.

These rankings are determined by collecting data from the tier lists and rankings of ten different sites to give you the average strength of each champion in the five roles of League of Legends. To explain how we develop this tier list we take each rating for the tier list and normalize that value, making sure that an A rating on one site and a “God tier” rating on another can be accurately compared. This is done by creating a normalized value based on all rankings given out by that site so the average standardized rating is 0.00 with higher numbers being good to very good rankings and negative numbers being bad rankings.

If you’re interested, you can also find all of the underlying data for this and all the past patches here. We also provide some guidance for how to use these tier lists (i.e. what do we mean when we say a champion is S tier vs. A tier) here. When evaluating the sites and tier lists, we used data for Platinum plus players worldwide. The individual sites we audited are also listed below (note the rankings are as of 11 PM EST on August 18).

The aggregated tier list for ADCs in Patch 9.16, was determined by the average ranking among the following sites, excluding the highest and lowest scores:

The tier list

S tier: Jinx

A+ tier: Xayah

A tier: Draven, Vayne, Kai’Sa, Jhin, Twitch

B+ tier: Caitlyn, Sivir

B tier: Ashe, Ezreal

C tier: Lucian, Tristana, Miss Fortune, Kog’Maw

D tier: Varus, Yasuo

F tier: Swain, Kalista