Shen has been in a very good spot up in the top lane for a while and now that AD Carries are seeing huge buffs and changes to their itemization, picking champions to play around them is only going to make you more impactful. If you play the game optimally on Shen and influence those other lanes and secure early dragons this is going to be hugely positive to your ranked success this patch. A lot of Shen’s matchups are also being affected by those fighter build changes too which will help him out in a lot of difficult lanes. Shen is a super consistent champion to main in the top lane so now’s the time to pick him back up again.

Vi has been performing extremely well at most ranks recently, with consistently strong itemization options no matter what gets changed or nerfed. We expect this patch to heavily revolve around the bot side of the map with AD carries becoming stronger, and there is simply no better pick to go for to help shut those marksmen down. Vi’s consistent CC with her Ultimate will always make her an amazing choice to dive onto the backlines and prevent them from doing their job. When you add in her early ganking strengths and ability to tear through objectives, you have a fantastic choice here in patch 13.1b.

Anivia is in a fantastic spot at the moment and despite nothing changing too drastically for her this season, her control, waveclear and scaling make her an excellent mid lane choice. Her itemization was buffed significantly in 13.1 and this only made her even more powerful. When it comes to consistency, Anivia is up there with the best of the bunch and she fairs well into so many different lanes and team compositions. She has amazing gank set-up and her damage throughout games is crazy, especially if she gets a bit fed early game and spikes sooner rather than later. Anivia is perfect at disrupting and irritating low range melee diving champions and let’s be honest there are tons of people playing bruisers this patch. If you use those stuns, slows and walls well? You’re going to be very hard to beat.

Samira is going to be an absolute menace in patch 13.1b with being able to rush huge damage as a second item in Infinity Edge. Samira’s is a very scary pick and has a monstrous ban rate already but now she’s going to be even stronger. When it comes to snowballing and stomping, there’s not many better AD Carries than Samira, she has burst damage, mobility, resets, teamfight damage and sustain and fantastic defensive tools too. Samira is incredibly hard to shut down when she gets ahead in the early game and she can easily roll over entire team comps who don’t have an answer to her. If you’re a master level 7 Samira main already? This is your time to shine.

Lulu is one of the best supports in the game when AD Carries are at the top of their game. She provides tons of peeling and protection and her utility is unrivaled in those big late game team fights. Due to this, she scales like a dream and doens’t have to worst lane phase either, she can be a bit of a lane bully with her ability to poke and harrass and if you do win the early game in a Lulu lane, you’re gonna struggle to lose the game. Lulu has fantastic synergies with any form of hypercarry, whether that be your fed Caitlyn popping enemies down with headshots, or even your mid lane Yasuo tearing through teams. Lulu is going to be a very consistent utility support to play in patch 13.1b.