End-of-year Best Decks

Hot off the presses, here's the current 23 best decks in LoR.

Aatrox is all over the place, but there are still a variety of good options out there.

Edit - I'm personally trying out a Bandle City Poro brew. So far, it's feeling quite a bit stronger than I expected.

I hate to be that guy but these takes are kinda hot garbage.

Pirate aggro was swinging around 60% winrate because killing opponents is better then not killing opponents.

Vayne has seen similar sucess with Atrox because he's a big boy with regen that gets to equip and attack for free with Vayne (aka killing the opponent)

Hallowed will continue to do hallow things present on curve threats that deny removal value.

So the best counter decks in the meta inevitable will be able to deal with small to medium sized threats while staying alive.

Tf Swain (sure)

Ezreal Seraphin (absolutely)

Ramp (you betcha)

Does that mean that there aren't any other control decks worth playing?

No you can play sundisc for sure, you could probably make Ionia work, different shadow isles brews, P and Z is nuts, Bandle and Freijord got hard buffed.

So really the only hot Take that matters is would you rather be the one doing the killing with whatever is the top aggro or midrange deck or do you want to be the one doing the living by effectively building slower counter decks.

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I hate to be that guy but these takes are kinda hot garbage.

I assume you are commenting on his comments, because the data is not open to argument.

Numbers are numbers, whether you like them or not.

Right well based on numbers pirate aggro is the best deck so setting that aside what just happened in the last hotfix?

The incredibly lame attrox scout deck got nerfed, and seraphine barkeep got nerfed.

So once again I do recommend people play real decks, real archetypes.

God knows I basically just steam roll people.

You have to understand the only real thing separating a "meta" list vs a non "meta" list in LOR is piloting.

Swim used to pilot poros to a 54% winrate and then it was "meta."

So when I say that yes ramp, sundisc, yassao, deep, have piloting potential, I am referring to their ability to win in the right hands under the right circumstances.

As opposed to straightforward lines of play where you hit face like elusive good stuff, pirate aggro, attrox scouts, hallowed which are mostly idiot proof.

-----example----

Graplr just went 6-1 with starspring now you say that's a small sample size, statistical anomaly yatta yatta, I don't care he was kicking butt with a freaking healing deck:

https://youtu.be/louvgSQSd9E

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Graplr just went 6-1 with starspring now you say that's a small sample size, statistical anomaly yatta yatta, I don't care he was kicking butt with a freaking healing deck

I agree completely. Great players, like Grapplr, can take mediocre decks and play them to insanely high winrates. I mean, I used to watch Firebat or Brian Kibler play HS decks on their streams - they could play just about anything and get a positive winrate out of it. That says nothing about the decks at all. If one of their viewers picked up one of those decks and started playing it, they would have a losing record for sure, because the decks were hot garbage. But the players are so good that they can play anything and win with it.

The point of a meta report is to publish the decks that are winning across a broad sample size of players, thus removing the pilot from the equation.

Side note, since you brought up Poros - the first time I ever made masters was playing a poros deck, waaaay before any major players thought it was viable.