LoR: 5 Rising Decks for the Ranked Queue - June 2024

Today, I brought you 5 rising, extremely fun and unusual lists, you should test out on the ranked queue.

I wrote an article about this same theme with 5 other rising decks two weeks ago. If you liked these two articles, tell us in the comment section! We'll bring more rising decks for you to test out!

Let's go ahead and check these lists!

This is the most recent and popular Burn list we have in Standard. I named it "Big Burn Pirates" to honor "Big Discard", the discard archetype, most precisely its version with Sion, which was slower. This Burn list is slower than the older versions, and that's why the name makes sense.

This deck is a bunch of "good cards" that deal damage to the Nexus directly, or have some type of synergy with "dealing damage to the enemy Nexus". This includes Gangplank and Swain's end game kit with The Leviathan.

It is quite popular right now: it is the 19th most popular deck on the ranked queue, and its average win rate is around 60%. The best someone could get with it was a 65% win rate.

This archetype also revived Monkey Idol, which was forgotten in Eternal, and is now one of the best units to level up your Gangplank. I'll also highlight Riptide Sermon, which was once one of the best removal spells in the game; it is now back into the meta as a great option to deal with the enemy board if you're playing a bit slower than usual.

This list is relatively easy to pilot because it is an ancient archetype that most players already learned how to pilot a long time ago. It is basically a Pirates list with slower, more expensive cards, but they're much more powerful and prepared for the late game. They'll give you way more gas than the previous versions of this archetype.

Elder Dragon decks tend to either evolve or turn into decks that focus on beating Elder Dragon archetypes themselves.

As you can see, this version is prepared to play against basically everything on the ranked queue, and it is one of the best options to climb ranks. It is also an anti-meta deck.

"Vivo" the iconic player who created one of the most popular LoR data websites, Runeterra.AR, gained around 307 LP with this deck in the American server's Master queue in the past few weeks.

The most important cards in this list are what I call the early game package of common Freljord cards: Omen Hawk and Yadulski Snowdog. They're practically a staple for any Freljord deck. We also play less copies of Horned Swarmcaller, only one, and more copies of Enraged Firespitter, three. This is the opposite of what we usually bring in regular Elder Dragon lists.

This means that removal for small units is more popular now because of how popular Tristana decks and other aggressive lists have been lately.

Another sign of this is She Who Wanders and Wrath of the Freljord, two cards that deal with small enemies really well, as well as the decks that focus on them.

This deck doesn't seem to be that powerful, but it is certainly one of the most unusual decks on the ranked queue. It is because it is so different that it earned a spot on our list.

It may seem like just a bunch of cool, fun cards, but, alongside Evelynn's package, they form a value-based Midrange Bilgewater deck with many win conditions.

Currently, this list has an average of 51% win rate, but its updated version has managed to get an 80% win rate. This deck's win rate delta is extremely long: it goes from 30% to 80%, which shows it is incredibly complicated to pilot. So, you'll need to focus when you play this list.

There are many cards in this deck I can highlight; the first is The Darkin Harpoon, which gives you Ibaaros to play as your finisher unit and an alternative win condition, considering you'll draw many cards with this list. We also have Sheriff Lariette Rose, a forgotten card which, in this list, works as the best tuner for your mid-game because it helps you control the enemy board.

Our main three finishers are Riptide Rex, The Dreadway, and Sefirsa, Scourge of the Deep. These three cards are quite slow and expensive, but they're extremely powerful and will certainly end up in your hand quite easily as you play.

Keep in mind that Rex will heal your Nexus with its effect if you play him on a Lifesteal Husk.

Even though this archetype was quite famous earlier in the season, Transform decks have gone through several phases and shapes throughout the weeks, and still haven't solidified as a closed deck yet. However, this version is the closest we have of a closed Transform list in the meta.

There was even a version with Morgana and Norra once, but now Taliyah became this deck's main champion.

What really stood out to me was how its win rate delta, out of nowhere, went up to 100% win rate.

As we can see in the picture above, the average win rate for Shurima Bandle City decks is 50%, but the newest Transform version has a 100% win rate because of a small change.

This change is that now the list has Rite of Passage and Rissu, the Silent Storm, two incredibly important cards to make this deck work.

Rite of Passage is perfect to keep putting pressure on the board after you lose The Wingsgiving to some removal, or even just to get it back after you complete its story. As for Rissu, it is perhaps the strongest and most significant unit in Transform archetypes. It wasn't that popular in the oldest versions of this list because it didn't match Nidalee's game style, the most popular champion for this archetype some time ago.

The Jhin Bandle City archetype was originally lovingly nicknamed Bandle City Yasuo.

This archetype was incredibly popular last year during the World Championship competitive season, and was really famous in grassroot tournaments as well. It was also incredibly difficult to pilot, and only the best players had any success with it.

After the new expansion came along earlier this year, Jhin Bandle City became a bit unpopular, but it has since returned as we got Vex and a new rotation, which gave this archetype a new face.

This deck has an average of 57% win rate, and the modern version has reached up to an incredible 100% win rate. It also has a minimum delta of 67%, which means it is quite powerful, and possibly fail proof.

This list has all of Vex's good cards, and also some essential units to level up Jhin. This is what makes this archetype a bit more aggressive, instead of control/combo, as it was before.

I'll highlight Legion Saboteur and Wallop: they're both responsible for making this list a lot more aggro.

It is also quite different from its old version; it is more Midrange-y with plenty of Burn elements, and also great finishers for the end game, like Shadow and Riptide Rex. This deck, on paper, seems quite incomplete and a bit weak, but in practice it is very efficient. It has lots of card draw, damage potential, and board control.

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