Master Yi sets the pace

Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman

Flexible units

No other deck paired Yi's field presence with the same depth of finishes. The event win completes the strongest overall result profile in the field.

Diana, Scorn of the Moon

Fast interaction

Diana paired broad field presence with repeated strong finishes and an event win. Yi's broader result set keeps her out of first.

Irelia, Blade Dancer

Fast interaction

The event win gives Irelia the best peak in A tier. Her deep-run rate trails both S-tier decks, leaving her third rather than in the top pair.

Kai'Sa, Daughter of the Void

Fast interaction

Kai'Sa won an event and added enough strong finishes to place fourth. There were not enough Kai'Sa decks to move her any higher.

Rek'Sai, Void Burrower

Flexible units

Rek'Sai paired an event win with more strong finishes than any deck played at a similar rate. Those results earn the last A-tier position.

Fiora, Grand Duelist

Flexible units / Baited Hook

Fiora's run to a final gives her a strong peak, but the follow-up is thin. That is enough to lead B tier without carrying her into A.

Vex, Gloomist

Defense + removal

Vex has a third-place peak and another strong finish, but no final or event win. That leaves it just behind Fiora at the top of B tier.

Lux, Lady of Luminosity

Experimental

Lux won an event and added one more strong finish. Those results put her in B, but there were too few Lux decks to move her higher.

Viktor, Herald of the Arcane

Flexible units

Viktor has been steadier across events than the decks immediately above him and has reached a final. The missing event win keeps that consistency from moving him higher.

LeBlanc, Deceiver

Baited Hook

LeBlanc reaches the late rounds more often than any other B-tier deck. Its ceiling is the problem: none of those runs advanced past fourth.

Azir, Emperor of the Sands

Fast interaction

Azir's results are steady enough for B tier, with a third-place peak. Fewer strong finishes than LeBlanc and no final keep it one spot lower.

Rengar, Pridestalker

Flexible units

Rengar won an event, but most Rengar decks did not reach the final rounds. The win puts Rengar above the decks below it, but not beyond B tier.

Annie, Dark Child

Early pressure

Annie finished second and added another strong finish. Without an event win or more results at that level, she stays near the bottom of B.

Sett, The Boss

Early pressure

Sett reached the final but had no second strong finish. No other B-tier deck had fewer supporting results, so Sett takes the final spot in the group.

Kha'Zix, Voidreaver

Flexible units

Against Rengar, Kha’Zix builds a steady board while creating the fight he wants. Gust can return a defender with 3 Might or less. Void Assault then moves a friendly unit followed by an enemy; if both go to a battlefield you do not control, you are the attacker. Kha’Zix gains 1 XP when you win a combat. Spending 1 XP and exhausting him buffs a unit; spending 2 XP and exhausting him pulls an exhausted friendly unit from a battlefield back to base. Neither activation costs Energy. From zero XP, one combat win supplies the XP for the buff, but Kha’Zix still has to be ready.

Sivir, Battle Mistress

Dazzling Aurora

Current Sivir is mostly an Aurora deck, and the better lists are built for consistency. Dazzling Aurora is the plan, so cards that only make a winning Aurora turn even bigger tend to get cut. Gold matters more against slower decks. It enters exhausted and only works once; after it readies, you kill and exhaust it to add one Universal Power. That gives Sivir more room to keep playing after Aurora floods the board. Fast pressure is still the problem. Spend too many early turns looking for Aurora and it may arrive after the opponent has already scored too many points.

Lillia, Bashful Bloom

Defense + removal

Lillia is a conquer deck, not a pile of disposable defenders. Sprite Fountain supplies a ready Temporary unit that can lower the Energy cost of Lillia’s activation, and the Legend can add another ready Sprite before the attack. Against Azir, she cannot let the token count settle. A full-board sweep can erase the spread, so Sprite Burst is the recovery card: its two Sprites arrive ready and can threaten an immediate conquest. Lilting Lullaby protects that attack by countering a spell. Once it resolves, that spell’s controller cannot play another spell that turn.

Draven, Glorious Executioner

Flexible units

The first lesson against Draven is simple: do not volunteer for the combat he needs. His unit-focused deck is happy to build safely until one clean win draws another card. Before Unleashed, Atlanta coverage favored Irelia because she could move away from Draven’s chosen fight instead of giving him that draw. Overzealous Fan adds another wrinkle: while defending, it may kill itself to move an attacker back to base and deny the expected conquest.

Darius, Hand of Noxus

Flexible units

Darius can race Irelia by developing faster than Stellacorn Herder and Tideturner can turn movement into extra cards. Once Legion is active, the Legend’s extra Energy supports turns with two units and keeps pressure on both battlefields. Rally the Troops spreads that pressure across several units: Spectral Matron can replay Vanguard Captain from the trash, and Captain’s Legion effect adds two Recruit tokens. In a pre-Unleashed Atlanta match against Fiora, adding another defender switched off her one-on-one bonus.

Ivern, Green Father

Flexible units

Ivern wins by changing where the game is worth playing. Against Azir, replacing a battlefield with Brush can remove the effect the Equipment deck chose for that lane while strengthening Ivern’s tagged units. Frisky Hunter supports that wide plan by bringing a Deflect Bird with it. Board clears are the dangerous answer, but hidden Emperor’s Divide can evacuate every friendly unit stacked at one battlefield before the damage lands. The trick is choosing which site to stop contesting; Ivern rarely has enough pressure to fight everywhere at once.

Ornn, Fire Below the Mountain

Experimental

Ornn’s cleanest opening uses his extra Power on Sprite Fountain, leaving only its two Energy to pay. The Fountain creates a ready Sprite at base, then its Deathknell creates another when the Temporary gear dies; each gear play can also ready Pit Crew. In a Utrecht matchup, Fiora punished that kind of wide setup with a board reset. Each player chose which of their own cards to keep, so Deflect offered no protection and most of Ornn’s board was recycled. The sequence shows the risk of spreading resources across too many permanents.

Pyke, Bloodharbor Ripper

Flexible units

Pyke is a hand-attrition deck wearing small-unit clothes. For one Energy and an exhaust, Bloodharbor Ripper can return a friendly Bewitching Spirit from a battlefield; replaying it forces another discard. Once the opponent’s hand is empty, Star-Crossed can return that Spirit alongside one targetable, non-token enemy unit. Replaying Spirit can then force the returned card to be discarded. Deflect and cannot-be-chosen protection still matter, and a token disappears instead of becoming a card in hand. Pyke's Gold arrives exhausted, so it cannot add one Universal Power until a later turn.

Master Yi, Wuju Master

Flexible units

Wuju Master spends the early game working toward bonuses that do not begin until six XP. Six XP gives every unit +1 Might; eleven makes newly played units enter ready. Against Irelia, that delay is punishing because she can own both battlefields before either bonus turns on. In the featured match, an early Discipline was used just to contest and then met a counter, leaving Yi short on units and XP. The later bonuses are powerful, but that game showed how difficult it was for Yi to recover after drawing too few inexpensive units and Hunt cards.

Miss Fortune, Bounty Hunter

Dazzling Aurora

Miss Fortune’s best line turns Baron Nashor from a unit fixed at Baron Pit into a threat that can move between battlefields. Her Legend gives Baron Ganking for the turn, letting the 12-Might unit leave Baron Pit and contest ordinary battlefields. Baron cannot be chosen by enemy spells or abilities, so most direct removal cannot touch it. Kai’Sa puts the setup under pressure: if Miss Fortune never resolves Dazzling Aurora, she can fall too far behind for Baron to matter. Once Baron is moving, its size and protection make every battlefield difficult to hold.

Volibear, Relentless Storm

Flexible units

Volibear wants enough turns to use Relentless Storm more than once. In a Houston feature before Unleashed, his route into Kai’Sa was to accept an early conquest only if the attacker could be cleared before it held, then extend the game. Elder Dragon qualifies at 10 Might and costs 12 Energy and four Body Power. After it is played, Volibear may exhaust to channel a rune exhausted. That rune helps pay for what comes next, not for the Dragon that caused the trigger.

Jhin, Virtuoso

Flexible units

Jhin’s ceiling is enormous, but against Lux the early turns are mostly about surviving long enough to see it. Curtain Call offers draw, damage, or a Might reduction. It counts for Jhin only when at least four Energy was actually spent on it, so a discount can matter, and banishing the spell is optional. When the fourth banished spell completes the set, Jhin sends all four to their owners’ trash, channels four runes, and draws a card. Those four ready runes cover four of Sprite Burst’s five-Energy cost, but Lux can take control before they arrive.

Lucian, Purifier

Flexible units

Lucian's scoring turn begins once the Equipment pieces are assembled. Trinity Force scores a point when its carrier holds, and Skyfall of Areion makes that hold effect trigger on a conquest; together, they turn one conquest into two points. His Champion readies after the first conquest each turn. Relentless Pursuit moves it, may attach an Equipment with the same controller, and lets it return to base if it conquers that turn. In Lille coverage before Unleashed, Lucian scored, returned, then threatened the other battlefield.

Jinx, Loose Cannon

Experimental

Jinx should not empty her hand just to prove the Legend works. The better plan is to play useful cards at each Energy cost and take the extra draw when her hand naturally runs low. In a Houston match before Unleashed, she committed inexpensive units early because Kai’Sa had the stronger late game. Even when Jinx traded cards efficiently, Kai’Sa still had the clearer way to finish. Jinx can reuse her rocket effect after a conquest, but recovering it still costs a discard.

Teemo, Swift Scout

Flexible units

Teemo is strongest after he owns a battlefield; Hidden lets him stash a second threat there, but the hard part is taking that site back once the opponent breaks through. Ready Temporary units give him a way to rebuild without emptying his hand onto the board. Houston’s casters put the danger plainly: if an attack into two Hidden cards goes wrong, Teemo can hide both again and make the opponent solve the same battlefield next turn. His Legend can spend Energy instead of Power to hide, but that does not solve the retake problem.

Yasuo, Unforgiven

Flexible units

Yasuo is at his best when one developed unit can threaten both battlefields. Ride the Wind moves and readies that unit; for two Energy and an exhaust, the Legend can move a friendly unit to or from its base. The hard matchup is efficient control that punishes both the one-unit plan and the backup-unit plan. If Yasuo stays narrow, the main carrier gets answered too cleanly; if he spreads, the second unit becomes another liability. Yasuo can steal points while the opponent reacts, but the long removal game keeps taxing the same threat.

Jax, Grandmaster at Arms

Flexible units

Jax is difficult to answer when one threat carries both protection layers. Ruin Runner cannot be chosen by enemy spells or abilities, and Counter Strike can prevent the next damage when the opponent commits to combat. In a pre-Unleashed Atlanta series against Master Yi, Jax spent too many resources on one showdown, and Yi’s steadier midgame punished it. The Legend still needs Equipment under your control: for one Energy and an exhaust, Jax can attach a detached piece; with only an exhaust, he can move one between units.

Ezreal, Prodigal Explorer

Fast interaction

Ezreal prefers opposing threats that fit inside cheap interaction. Gust can choose and return an enemy unit at a battlefield with 3 Might or less, supplying one of the two enemy choices he needs. If another spell or unit ability chooses an enemy unit or gear that turn, he may exhaust as a Reaction to draw. Irelia is the ugly current matchup: Deflect raises targeted answers’ Power cost, counters can stop them, and movement can invalidate the chosen fight. Lille’s casters spelled out the problem against Azir: remove one Soldier and another follows. Ezreal has to protect a lead instead of chasing replaceable units.

Leona, Radiant Dawn

Flexible units

Leona can build a convincing lock, but it takes several cards to get there. Zenith Blade stuns an enemy and can move a friendly unit into the same battlefield; that stun also lets Vex, Mocking move in from elsewhere, adding a large Tank without another movement card. In a pre-Unleashed Houston breakdown, Stun stopped Master Yi's damage but left the defender in place, so Leona needed Hidden Blade for a clean kill. Yi drew two cards from that kill, making the next showdown harder.

Poppy, Keeper of the Hammer

Flexible units

Poppy has found a clearer home inside Aurora control. Against Diana, Cull the Weak can remove her only early unit when Poppy has a low-value unit to give up. The Ruination kills every unit. Dazzling Aurora gives the deck a separate rebuild on a later turn. Each hold gives the Legend 1 XP, and spending 3 XP plus exhausting Poppy draws a card. The deck succeeds through removal and Aurora rebuilds, not by holding only to bank XP for that draw.

Ahri, Nine-Tailed Fox

Defense + removal

Ahri wants to control where the opponent attacks. Charm can pull an enemy unit toward the battlefield she has prepared; once it attacks a site Ahri controls, the Legend’s Might reduction tilts the trade. Azir wants a conquest race from turn one. Ahri would rather establish a defender, start shrinking attackers, and work toward holding both battlefields. Once those holds are in place, Azir’s Legend cannot add units to them directly because its Sand Soldier enters at base.

Vi, Piltover Enforcer

Flexible units

Deathgrip can create the excess damage Vi needs. It kills a friendly unit as part of its effect; if it does, another friendly unit gains Might equal to the killed unit’s current Might for the turn. If you then conquer and assigned at least three excess combat damage, Vi may exhaust to ready a unit. Reusing it at another battlefield still requires Ganking or a separate movement effect. In a prerelease game against Vex, committing everything to one attacker backfired when Vex moved it into a prepared battlefield and chained Stuns.

Rumble, Mechanized Menace

Flexible units

Rumble’s best games turn one defender into an entire second board. Ferrous Forerunner is a 6-Might Mech, so it defends at 7 with the Legend’s Shield. When it dies, its Deathknell plays two 3-Might Mechs to base. Those tokens enter exhausted, but once readied each defends at 4. In a pre-Unleashed Bologna feature, Viktor opened on two units, added a ready attacker, and used efficient removal to keep Rumble behind. That is the opening the Mech plan can least afford.