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LoR - Meta Report: Aegis Champions, Lineups, and Stats (January 2025)

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In this article, we'll explore the most recent edition of the Aegis Monthly Tournament, the biggest competitive event in LoR nowadays. We'll see how this edition played out, the best lineups, and some stats that may change the LoR metagame in the next few days.

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Índice

  1. > Introduction
  2. > The Format
  3. > Best Players & Lineups
    1. Champion Lineup - Alsome1
    2. Runner-Up Lineup - Goophy
  4. > Tournament Stats
  5. > Final Words

Introduction

Recently, Aegis hosted another edition of their Monthly tournaments! If you don't know, these are the biggest LoR tournaments right now, and, every month, the most competitive, as well as the best, LoR players take part in it.

Usually, after these big tournaments, the meta changes, and some lists used by these players quickly become popular on the ranked queue as well.

Today, let's go through some data from this tournament, as well as some lineups and graphs, all while I give you my opinion on the current LoR meta. Let's go!

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The Format

The Aegis Monthly Tournament consists of two phases. First, there is the Swiss phase, in which players compete in several rounds and score points as they win or lose, all according to how many players are taking part in the tournament. There were 24 players in the last tournament, so they played 5 rounds.

After that, the top 8 players go through a single elimination phase.

This tournament also features the Standard format, best of 3 rounds, and Riot Lock (you need 3 decks that don't repeat region combinations or champions, and you can only play 1 deck without any champions) with a single ban-system. The first player to win 2 matches wins the round.

Best Players & Lineups

The big winner of this edition was Alsome1, who beat Goophy from Big Fish Gaming in the finals by 2x1.

Champion Lineup - Alsome1

Alsome1 brought 2 slow Midrange decks and 1 Aggro deck. They mostly banned decks with Shadow Isles, which were the most popular lists at this tournament.

Jayce Lux

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This archetype is slowly becoming popular. Most players don't enjoy it because it is too simple and repetitive, but it is extremely solid in competitive settings because it doesn't have any bad matchups. It can also deal with most meta decks.

Its greatest weaknesses are Control decks with Shadow Isles, which were probably the lists Alsome1 banned throughout this tournament.

On the ranked queue, this deck struggles against Mordekaiser and other Control strategies. However, in tournaments, you can simply ban these lists and prey on more aggressive Midrange or Aggro decks.

This deck is great as your third deck in a lineup, considering its region and champion combination is unique, and, in general, it is a safe strategy that fits nearly all lineups. Your opponents will also be tempted to ban it. I highly recommend this list if you want to start playing tournaments.

Akshan Pantheon

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This was the unusual list that Alsome1 brought in their lineup.

Competitive decks that are at the top of the rankings, in general, don't play a lot of landmark removal, like the Explorers. So, they are also not playing many equipment removals, which makes Akshan and Pantheon easier to play.

The lists that bring these removals are also often Shadow Isles lists, which, as we mentioned, were the lists Alsome1 was probably already banning.

This is a great list for this meta because it brings a reactive game style, and the metagame doesn't have a straightforward answer for it. It is also not that popular on the ranked queue, and, as a result, could easily be overlooked by competitive players. Though many players also thought to bring Akshan decks, only two players brought Pantheon in this list. All the other lists played Lee Sin or Zoe with Akshan.

This is another solid strategy that not many powerful decks can beat, and easily completes your lineup precisely because it is so safe.

Janna Nilah

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The icing on the cake for the winning lineup was this Janna Nilah list.

This choice reinforces the idea that Alsome1 wanted to ban Shadow Isles, considering Explorers simply destroy the most important card in this archetype: Sunken Temple.

This is what we call a "ban bait" or the deck you want to "be banned": you want your opponents to ban this list, and they'll probably do. If they don't, they'll be in trouble.

Though incredibly hard to pilot, this list is extremely strong competitively speaking. It also scares many new players because it has many ways to win the game.

You simply won't be able to exhaust your opponent's cards or try to control Janna Nilah. Instead, you'll be forced to play at the fast pace this list imposes, and not all meta decks can keep up with it.

This makes this strategy great in tournaments, even more because it punishes slower lists and lineups that lean on a specific strategy, like triple control lineups that only want to answer your plays. Or triple combo lineups that want to win games with Lee Sin kicks.

Runner-Up Lineup - Goophy

Goophy brought two fast Midrange lists and one Aggro deck. They also decided to ban Shadow Isles and other Control decks, and leaned on having great matchups against Midrange lists and aggressive decks in general.

Morgana Udyr

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This is the best Midrange list around - this means it also beats other Midrange lists. It plays the best mid-game units in LoR in terms of stats, and the best protection spells in the entire game, so you'll struggle to beat it if you don't play heavy removals.

Furthermore, it is one of the few archetypes that uses healing, and that's an extremely important tool, considering the aggressive list in the meta right now play Burn.

Out of all the lists we presented, this is the one I most recommend you bring to the ranked queue or tournaments, considering it is easy to play, and quite powerful.

Akshan Sivir

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Goophy actually created this list - it is a Transform deck, similar to a Nidalee deck but without Nidalee.

The main idea is to Transform your units with The Wingsgiving, all while you target allies with Shuriman spells to level up Akshan.

This deck is basically a bunch of great Bandle City and Shuriman cards that can deny spells and create value on the board throughout the match. Eventually, your Transformed units will win the match because of how powerful they'll be, or your Akshan will have multiple keywords and win the game by himself.

It's worth a try on the ranked queue.

Elise Nocturne

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This is the most popular list for beginners, and I highly recommend you test it out if you have just begun playing LoR.

There is not a single LoR player in the world who doesn't know this list, but Goophy brought a different point of view to this archetype. They focused more on the main combo.

They brought 3 The Harrowing, and 3 The Iron Conquest, besides 2 Soul Cleave, which make this deck a lot slower. However, with this list, you don't need to care about keeping your units on the board; you can sacrifice them when you attack or block and then revive them later with The Harrowing.

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Tournament Stats

Below, I added which decks were popular at this tournament - Mordekaiser and Norra was the most popular list, and Shadow Isles and Piltover & Zaun were the most popular regions.

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Below, you'll see how popular each individual champion was:

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Below, you'll find the same data as above but in graph-form:

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Below, you'll find the most popular lineups at this tournament, and how many players brought them:

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Relevant Resources About the Competitive Scene and Aegis Tournaments

Here'slink outside website a link for the spreadsheet with all the participants and their decks.

Here's the Event linklink outside website.

Santupea (a great community member that gathers and shares info on all tournaments), is available herelink outside website.

Final Words

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See you next time!