Top Champions

54 champions list Top among their positions — 31% of the roster, making it the 2nd most common of the five roles. 25 are listed for Top only, while 29 are flex picks that also appear elsewhere, most often in Jungle (13) and Mid (12).

47 of the 54 list melee range and 10 ranged. 35 of 54 use Mana; the exceptions are Aatrox (Blood Well), Akali (Energy), Ambessa (Energy), Dr. Mundo (Manaless), Garen (Manaless), Gnar (Rage) and 13 others. The pool draws most heavily on Ionia (9) and Freljord (8), and after Human the most common species is Yordle (7).

Top has held steady as a share of new releases: 32% of champions released from 2009 to 2012 list it, against 29% of those released since 2019. The most recent additions are Zaahen (2025), Ambessa (2024), Aurora (2024) and K'Sante (2022).

In Champlab, positions are a multi-value column. A guess goes green only when its position list matches the answer's exactly, and yellow when the two share at least one role. A pure Top guess that comes back yellow therefore tells you the answer is a flex pick that includes Top. Heimerdinger (Mid, Top, Support) covers three roles, which makes it an unusually wide probe. The best first guess among Top champions is Irelia, ranked 8th of 173 on the strategy page, leaving 2.4 candidates on average — one of the strongest first guesses in the whole game.