Best League of Legends Champions for Beginners by Role

The best League of Legends champions for beginners have simple abilities and leave room for mistakes: Garen and Malphite top, Warwick and Amumu in the jungle, Annie and Lux mid, Ashe and Miss Fortune as ADC, Soraka and Leona as support. All of them have been in the game for many years, and each one teaches the basics of its role. Here is why each of them works, and what to watch for.

What makes a champion easy for a new player

League of Legends has more than 150 champions, and in your first games you are already learning a lot at once: last hitting minions, reading the minimap, knowing when to fight. A complex champion adds fast button combinations on top of that.

A good first champion has abilities you understand on the first read, room for error (a lot of health, a heal or a shield), and one clear job in a fight.

The easiest champions in LoL, role by role

Top lane: Garen and Malphite

Garen uses no mana, and his health comes back by itself after a few seconds out of combat, so a bad trade does not send you back to base. He teaches the main lesson of top lane: go in, hit, and walk away before the answer comes. Do not chase champions who hit from range.

Malphite is a tank with a shield that returns when he is left alone for a few seconds. His ultimate is easy to read: he charges to a spot and knocks every enemy there into the air. He teaches the tank's job, which is choosing the moment a fight starts.

Jungle: Warwick and Amumu

Jungle is the hardest role for a new player, and these two make it lighter. Warwick heals from his own attacks when his health drops, so monster camps rarely put him in danger. When an enemy champion is low he picks up their trail and runs faster toward them, which points you to the lane that needs a gank.

Amumu is a tank who goes in first. He throws a bandage that pulls him to an enemy and stuns them, and his ultimate locks every enemy around him in place. He teaches that the jungler opens fights for the team. Miss the bandage and the gank is over.

Mid lane: Annie and Lux

Annie teaches you to count. After every four abilities, her next one also stuns, so you learn to prepare the stun before you attack. Her first ability returns its mana when it kills the target, which helps you practice last hits. Her range is short, so stay behind your minions until the stun is ready.

Lux fights from far away, with a binding that roots up to two enemies, a shield for her allies and a long-range laser. She teaches skillshots and spacing, which means hitting while you stay outside the enemy's range. She has no escape, so a missed binding with an enemy close by is dangerous.

ADC: Ashe and Miss Fortune

Ashe slows everyone her arrows hit. That teaches kiting, the key move of an ADC: attack, take a step, attack again, because a slowed enemy cannot reach you. Her ultimate is an arrow that crosses the whole map and stuns the first champion it hits. She has no dash, so you learn safe positioning from the first day.

Miss Fortune deals high damage with clear buttons. Her ultimate is a stream of bullets in a cone while she stands still, so the lesson is place and timing: where the cone covers the most enemies, and when standing still is safe. Any stun ends it, so fire from behind your tank.

Support: Soraka and Leona

Soraka is a pure healer. She heals an ally at the cost of her own health, and her ultimate heals all her allies wherever they are on the map. She teaches you to watch health bars and the minimap together, from a safe place at the back.

Leona is the opposite, a tank who starts the fight. She dashes to an enemy with her sword and stuns with her shield. She teaches the decision to go in: is your ADC close enough to follow, and is the enemy minion wave small? Once she is in, there is no way back.

How to choose your first champions

Pick one role, two at most, and two or three champions for each. A player who changes champion every game stays a beginner on all of them. If you have not chosen a role yet, read League of Legends roles explained first.

You do not need to buy anything to try a champion. Every week the game opens a group of champions to everyone, the free rotation, and matches against bots (Co-op vs. AI) are the right place for your first games on a new pick. When you like one, unlock it for good with Blue Essence, the currency you earn by playing.

Leave champions known for their difficulty, such as Yasuo, Zed, Lee Sin and Riven, for later. They punish every mistake, and they will still be there later.

Play the same champion for ten games in a row before you judge it. The first games on any champion are always bad.

Best League of Legends champions for beginners: frequent questions

Which champion is the easiest to start with?

Most players name Garen first. In the other roles, try Annie for mid, Ashe for ADC, Soraka for support and Warwick for jungle.

Are LoL beginner champions weak in ranked?

No. Easy means the job is clear, not that the champion is weak. You will meet all of these champions in ranked games at every level.

How many champions do I need for ranked?

The game asks for account level 30 and 20 owned champions. To play well you need far fewer: two or three for your main role and one or two for a second.

Skins for your favorite champion: RP codes on Mas4Games

Once a champion feels like yours, you may want a skin for it. Skins are bought with RP, the game's paid currency, and change looks only. Mas4Games sells League of Legends RP codes for accounts on the Türkiye server. The code is shown on the order's page in your account and sent by e-mail.

After the champion comes its rune page: see our League of Legends runes guide.