Paladins Tier List 2026 — Best Champions Ranked

Front Line’s top four all clear 0.85; no other role puts a single name that high. Azaan 0.92 carries a 0.14 spread, the tightest read of any champion all five sources graded. Makoa and Fernando tie at 0.88 on very different confidence — Makoa 0.40, Fernando 0.22 — and neither charts in the top 20 of our pick-rate proxy, where Khan 0.85 sits 4th and Azaan 16th. Then the cliff: Khan to Inara is 0.23, the widest gap between neighbours in any role.

Below it, eight tanks fit inside 0.21, five of them contested. Inara 0.62 and Atlas 0.61 sit 0.01 apart and invert: one ranked list has Inara B, Atlas S+; the editorial has Atlas B, Inara S. Ash 0.56 sits calmer than either at 0.40 spread: S, S, A- and A from the ranked lists, B from the editorial. Terminus 0.48 and Barik 0.47 are neighbours and nothing alike: 0.24 spread against 1.00, one of four champions at the maximum. Ruckus 0.46 and Yagorath 0.42 share a 0.67, both S on one ranked list, C on another. Torvald 0.41 closes at 0.35.

Two of fourteen tanks fall below B, fewer than any other role: Support three, Flank four, Damage five. Nyx 0.34 shares that 1.00 maximum: D, A, A and B across the four ranked lists, S+ from the editorial one, on 0.5% of our pick-rate proxy. Raum 0.23 is last of the fourteen without a grade below C: two ranked lists say A and A-, two say C, the editorial B. Two against two; the weighting decides.

Damage lands three champions in S on three very different amounts of evidence. Imani 0.84 takes SS from three of the four ranked lists, and the two dissenters — the fourth ranked list and the editorial one — both still say A. Omen 0.80 is second in the role on a single ballot: the last champion added to the game, rated by the half-weight editorial list and nobody else, so his 0.00 spread measures silence rather than agreement. Cassie 0.71 clears the 0.70 S threshold by 0.01, on one SS and one S+ against three A-grades.

Ten champions fill A and B between 0.67 and 0.43. Lian 0.67, Saati 0.65, Bomb King 0.62 and Octavia 0.60 sit inside 0.07 of each other; of those four only Lian reaches our pick-rate proxy’s ten most-played, and the other three miss its top twenty. Willo 0.55, Drogoz 0.52, Tiberius 0.51 and Kinessa 0.50 are packed into 0.05, though sources agree on Kinessa (0.17) far more than on Drogoz, whose 0.67 is the widest split in the role — four A-grades against one S+. Sha Lin 0.46 and Tyra 0.43 close the band, Tyra the most-played champion in our sample and 13th of eighteen by score.

Five sit in C and D. Strix 0.35 splits the two Guru lists, C against S-. Dredge 0.29 posts the tightest spread of the five, 0.18 — B, A, A-, A-, then an editorial C. Nobody rates him badly or highly; the weighting drops him. Betty la Bomba takes D twice and A+ from Lernox; Viktor ties her at 0.25 on a single D. Vivian 0.23 is the only D; no ballot puts her below C — A, A-, C, B, C.

Flank’s top three span 0.05: Androxus at 0.75, Vatu at 0.71, Vora at 0.70, exactly on the S cutoff. All three take four of five sources in the S band, so breadth settles nothing; what separates Androxus is grade weight — two of his five reads are S+, one ranked, one editorial, while Vatu and Vora take one apiece. Vora is the steadiest at 0.33 spread, Androxus 0.38, Vatu 0.44. Androxus and Vora both land inside the ten most-played on our pick-rate proxy; Vatu does not appear in its top twenty.

The step from 0.70 down to Koga’s 0.55 is 0.15 — the widest gap here, and the second-widest anywhere on the board. He and Evie, 0.51, are the entire A band, and the sources are far calmer about him: 0.36 spread against her 0.60, a line that reads S-, S, A+, C, B across the five. Beneath them five names span 0.08 — VII 0.47, Talus 0.46, Zhin 0.44, Maeve 0.41, Lex 0.39 — and three of the five clear 0.5 spread. Four Flank picks sit in our pick-rate proxy’s top ten; only two of them are S.

C and D take four of these fourteen. Buck 0.34 carries a 0.65 spread: ranked reads of S, A, C, B, and a C from the editorial list. Only Skye 0.24 charts at all — thirteenth in the same proxy — and at 0.33 she is the least disputed of the four. Caspian 0.20 and Kasumi 0.16 are two of the four at maximum spread, 1.00 — one editorial S+ apiece, no ranked read above A-. Kasumi’s is the floor of all fifty-nine.

Support seats exactly one champion in S: Mal'Damba at 0.70 — no S score on the board is lower, and Vora matches him exactly. Drop him 0.01 and this role has no S at all. His five grades read S-, S+, S, A, A — spread 0.43, no source below A. No gap in these thirteen exceeds 0.07; his step down to the A band is one of two that size. Among role leaders only he is missing from our pick-rate proxy’s top twenty.

The A and B bands hold nine, spanning 0.27 of score: 0.63 down to 0.36. Ying tops them at 0.63 on a 0.21 spread, the tightest agreement of the thirteen; Jenos 0.60 carries 0.67, graded B to SS. Furia 0.55 splits two S grades against two B, spread 0.64; Lillith 0.52 draws S from three lists and B from one, spread 0.55. Corvus 0.48 leads four inside 0.05 — Pip and Moji at 0.41, Grover 0.37, Rei 0.36. Moji takes two S grades and two D from the same five lists; Grover’s 0.89 is the widest disagreement outside the four tied at 1.00.

This is the only role with an empty D tier. Seris is the awkward one: the most-played support in our pick-rate proxy at 4,906 matches, yet 0.35 and C on a 0.67 spread — D on one list, S- on another. No source puts Io 0.29 above A, and her 0.36 spread is the second-tightest of the thirteen. Grohk 0.24 closes it, exactly half the 0.48 roster median, with an A+ on one list and a D on another.