Best Champions Ban Tier List For Ranked Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum | Diamond - Patch 13.15 August 2022

Naafiri is Mid

The new mid/jungler Naafiri is performing somewhat averagely balanced, surprising for a new release. Generally speaking, she’s decent at mid-divisions where players have enough skill to play her but not enough to understand what they’re dealing with enough to counter her.
Meanwhile, as usual, we see a strong divergence between what’s good at higher tiers and lower tierswith easier champions packing more impact lower and higher skill floor champions doing well at higher tiers.

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Naafiri is Mid

The new mid/jungler Naafiri is performing somewhat averagely balanced, surprising for a new release. Generally speaking, she’s decent at mid-divisions where players have enough skill to play her but not enough to understand what they’re dealing with enough to counter her.

Meanwhile, as usual, we see a strong divergence between what’s good at higher tiers and lower tierswith easier champions packing more impact lower and higher skill floor champions doing well at higher tiers.

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The purpose of this list is to discover optimal bans, with the knowledge that enemy teams will likely ban the ones at the top of the list.

Banning Thought Process

Which champions could the enemy team pick that would really screw my team over?
Which champions could the enemy team pick that would really screw ME over?
Which of the champions above is the enemy team likely going to pick if it’s not banned?
Which of the champions above is the enemy team probably going to ban?

After considering these items, it’s time to hit the ban phase.

Optimal Bans

Diamond+

God Tier [Likely/Should Bans]: Kai’Sa, Draven, Rell
Good Bans [Popular Strong Champions]: Rakan, Blitzcrank, Ezreal

Meh Bans [Probable But Unnecessary Bans]: Naafiri, Zed, Rengar, Aatrox

Platinum/Emerald

God Tier [Likely/Should Bans]: Naafiri, Zed, Blitzcrank
Good Bans [Popular Strong Champions]: Ezreal, Ashe, Xerath

Meh Bans [Probable But Unnecessary Bans]: Aatrox, Samira, Kai’Sa, Lux

Gold

God Tier [Likely/Should Bans]: Naafiri, Zed, Blitzcrank
Good Bans [Popular Strong Champions]: Kai’Sa, Lux, Xerath

Meh Bans [Probable But Unnecessary Bans]: Samira, Morgana

Silver

God Tier [Likely/Should Bans]: Zed, Blitzcrank
Good Bans [Popular Strong Champions]: Kai’Sa, Lux, Ashe, Miss Fortune

Meh Bans [Probable But Unnecessary Bans]: Naafiri, Morgana, Samira

Bronze/Iron

God Tier [Likely/Should Bans]: Zed, Blitzcrank
Good Bans [Popular Strong Champions]: Kai’Sa, Lux, Ashe, Miss Fortune

Meh Bans [Probable But Unnecessary Bans]: Naafiri, Samira, Morgana

Method

To do this list, I first start with whichever statistical compilation site I have available (my personal preference is leagueofgraphs.com). Afterwards, I check the most banned champions and separate them into either “God Tier” or “Meh Bans” based on win rate and popularity, sometimes subjective reasoning (in which case I’d do a write-up).

Last I do an analysis of both the win rate and the popularity by division and add in good bans for that division based on such.

Some people may note that most sites don’t distinguish between “Platinum Only” and “Platinum and Higher“. However, this generally doesn’t make much of a difference as a result of the way the overall player distribution is between the ranks. Bronze and Silver make up the highest percentage of error, but generally run similar to each other.