Vainglory 4.10 Meta Overview and Tier List Released
Up to date Meta Overview and Tier List: http://everlastingnight.net/vainglory-meta-overview-and-tier-list/
Introduction
We saw in the previous patches comps of 3 utility heroes (top laner, jungler, captain), and 2 damage dealers (mid and bot laner) which will get most of the gold being dominant. The recent nerfs and buff didn’t change the overall meta, which is still mostly around tanks and CC.
Legend:
WP=Weapon Power
CP=Crystal Power
/=one or the other
You can find complete builds in the Hero builds article
If an hero is D/E or lower tier in a certain role, he won’t be listed for that role.
If
an hero is D or lower in ALL roles, he will be listed in his best
role, so that the tier list contains at least once all heroes.
Example:
Fortress
is a D tier Jungler and E tier Captain. He is irrelevant in all other
roles. Due to this, he’ll be listed as “D” tier for jungler, but not
written at all as captain.
The purpose of a tier list is to give a general idea of the “overall power” of a hero, provide a good perspective of the meta. But depending on synergy, counter picks and other factors (a “weak” hero may be a comfort pick, or, for reasons, be extremely hard to play against for someone) it might be a good idea to pick/ban certain heroes who are not top tier. In draft don’t just look at the tier list, but your specific situation. What did your teammates pick? Your enemies? Are you experienced with hero X? If you’re not, likely you won’t do good even if said hero is top tier.
The previous tier lists were not receiving updates after release, so,
if the meta changed through a patch (it happens constantly), there
wouldn’t have been any update on that until the next patch release.
To
stay up-to-date with the ever changing meta, from now on the tier
lists will receive updates whenever needed. So, check this page every
now and then, rather than reading them only once per patch.
You’ll find a small note about the latest tier list update at the top of the post.
Tier lists won’t receive updates once a new patch comes for 7-10 days.
The latest hero released will be included after his release for glory.
Note: in this tier list update, we decided to go back to the multiple sub-tier system, such as A+, B+, C+, D+ etc
TOP LANE
The enemy bot laner and jungler will constantly put you under
pressure in a 1v2 situation, alongside this, they have the Weapon Power
buff, while none of the buffs is near you. Due to this, you can’t
farm properly, so avoid playing late game heroes here. For this
reason, usually, utility builds are recommended due to their overall
lower price.
Tanky heroes and/or heroes with great escape tools (to survive ganks) like assassins are usually recommended for this lane.
Your
main job is to survive and do not let your turret go down easily. Do
not fed! And protect the turret as long as possible. Just remember: if
you die, turret will go down right after anyway (unless you died in
the first 2-3 minutes and the enemy didn’t shop yet). If you have to,
give it up. Better to lose a turret than to lose a turret AND die on top of it. You’re only making things worse.
If
your mid laner rotates, let him take the farm if you’re going for a
tanky top laner. To rotate there and help you he missed some cs in his
lane, and usually mid needs the golds more than you do, as buy
damage is much more expensive than utility/defensive items.
Usually top laners starts by taking treant, then move to the top lane.
Farm
the treant’s camp to heal. However, be careful: chances are, the
enemy jungler will try to steal it most of the times. Be sure to not
get killed while farming the treant.
A+ TIER TOP LANE
Lance Utility
San Feng Utility
A TIER TOP LANE
Catherine Utility
Grace Utility
Grumpjaw Utility
B+ TIER TOP LANE
Adagio CP
Anka CP
Baptiste Clockwork Utility
Rona WP
Tony Utility
B TIER TOP LANE
Alpha WP
Blackfeather CP
Glaive WP
Joule WP
Leo Utility
Malene CP
Petal CP
Reza CP
Warhawk CP
MID LANE
Mid laner play 2v2 with the captain against the enemy mid laner and captain.
Usually
a late game hero. Since the Crystal Orb is near, this lane plays a CP
hero. Your main goal is essentially to get fed (and do not allow the
enemy mid laner to get fed). You have 1 more siege minion per wave
compared to the other lanes. Your ability to get gold for yourself, and
also your captain (which takes ambient gold from mid lane mostly) will
be critical for the team.
Due to the river boosts, you can quickly
rotate to the top or bot lane. Consider that you will lose in cs by
doing so, it might not worth it if you can’t get kills. However, you
might take top lane’s farm to compensate.
Blackclaw only appears in this lane.
For all these reasons, mid lane is usually the most important of the 3 lanes, and arguably the most important role.
Usually,
you’ll start from the Crystal Guardian and the two bears, to then move
to the mid lane. Remember to get the Crystal Guardian and the two
bears through the game. If your jungler buys damage, be sure to only
take 1 bear to hit level 2 on the first rotation, then leave the bears
to your jungler.
You can read a more detailed guide to the mid lane here
A TIER MID LANE
Celeste CP
Magnus CP
Skaarf CP
Viola CP
B TIER MID LANE
Adagio CP
Ishtar CP
Malene CP
Samuel CP
Skye CP
Vox CP
C TIER MID LANE
Idris CP
Karas CP
Varya CP
Warhawk CP
CAPTAIN
Captain buys utility item and they don’t buy damage.
His job is to help the mid laner and eventually rotate to help
top/bot. But mostly, you’ll stay in the mid lane since there is 1 more
siege minion per wave (you gain more ambient gold here) and due to the
river it’s faster to reach the other lanes starting from mid.
Depending
on the situations there are many things you could do: body block, help
your mid laner to push the wave, or trade damage with the enemies to
stop them from csing or potentially even get a kill (try to let your
mid laner last hitting, so that he gains the most golds from the
kill).
You also need to protect the mid laner from ganks, and help
farming the Crystal Guardiad and two bears early game, as usually mid
laners can’t tank well.
A+ TIER CAPTAIN
Lyra Utility
A TIER CAPTAIN
Catherine Utility
Grace Utility
Lance Utility
San Feng Utility
Phinn Utility
Viola Utility
B TIER CAPTAIN
Adagio Utility
Ardan Utility
Churnwalker Utility
Lorelai Utility
Yates Utility
JUNGLE
As the jungle offers less gold than the lanes, utility junglers are
recommended over ones that need to buy damage (damage is more
expensive than utility). However, assassins and warriors may show up
rarely.
Utility Junglers:
Sometimes you”ll go mid to gank or
protect turret and more rarely to the top lane (usually, mid and the
captain will help the top lane), however, you’ll mostly focus on help
the bot lane. Consider give the jungle camps to your bot laner (and
help him farming), especially from mid-game onward, to fed him.
Depending
on the situation, help the bottom laner to clear waves fast, push
(possibly, freeze for a while to amass 2-3 waves before doing this)
and apply pressure. If possible kill the enemy’s top laner, otherwise
you can just try to take turret tanking his damage or while he clears
the waves you pushed to his turret.
Uusally, you’ll clearn the
Goldoak and the Weapon Guardian for the first minutes, and then you’ll
give the jungle’s camps to your bot laner.
Damage Junglers (wp,
cp): they will usually roam around the map, trying to gain kills.
They’ll clear the Goldoak, Weapon Guardian and the two bears (1 bear or
none first rotation, as the mid laner needs at least 1 bear to hit level
2)
A TIER JUNGLE
Baptiste Clockwork Utility
Catherine Utility
Churnwalker Utility
Lance Utility
Tony Utility
B+ TIER JUNGLE
Anka CP
Grace Utility
Grumpjaw Utilty
Inara Utility
B TIER JUNGLE
Ardan Utility
Blackfeather CP
Flicker Utility
Glaive WP
Malene CP
Reim CP
Reza CP
Rona WP
San Feng Utility
Yates Utility
Ylva Utility
C TIER JUNGLE
Koshka CP
Fortress Utility
Taka WP
D TIER JUNGLE
Krul CP/WP
Ozo CP/WP
BOTTOM LANE
The late game weapon carry, since the weapon power buff is near. Pressure the enemy top laner and take his turret with the help of the jungler. Depending on the comp, you might farm the jungle camp with the help of your jungler (hypercarry strategy, where you take the jungler farm for yourself if the team agree), otherwise you’ll start at the healing treant then you’ll move to your lane. From mid game onward you should also take the Weapon Guardian. Similarly to the mid laner, you’ll be one of the most important damage dealers of your team late game, so be sure to get fed.
A TIER BOTTOM LANE
Caine WP
Kensei WP
Kestrel WP
Kinetic WP
Vox WP
B TIER BOTTOM LANE
Gwen WP
Miho WP
Skye WP
C TIER BOTTOM LANE
Baron WP
Ringo WP
Silvernail WP
D TIER BOTTOM LANE
SAW WP
