Champions Released in 2019

In 2019, Riot released 5 new champions: Aphelios, Qiyana, Senna, Sylas and Yuumi. That ranks 2019 joint 9th of 18 release years by volume, up from 3 in 2018 and against 6 in 2020. The average across every year is 9.6, so 2019 sits below the norm — typical of the slower, larger-kit release pace Riot settled into after the first four years.

The most commonly listed position in this batch is Bottom (2 of 5), and the champions span 5 regions, led by Demacia (2). 4 of the 5 are Human. By range there are 2 melee and 3 ranged listings; by gender, 3 female and 2 male. Every one of them runs on Mana.

Firsts: 2019 introduced the first Cat (Yuumi) and Magical (Yuumi) species tags.

The best first guess among the 2019 champions is Sylas, ranked 73rd of 173 on the strategy page, leaving 4.3 candidates on average — a middling opener. A 2019 guess lights the year cell yellow for anything from 2017 to 2021 — 23 champions, 13% of the roster. Beyond that, 134 champions are older and only 16 newer, so an up arrow is the valuable result: it leaves a short list of recent releases. Play a round to try it.