League of Legends isn’t easy, with over 150 options, it’s easy to get overwhelmed as a new player when it comes to champion selection alone. There are many different types of champions and even more ways to play them. We’ve picked out the best beginner champions for you, including abilities for each role, to help you get started.

Of course, to really master the champions in our enumeration, you still need some game experience. However, we have deliberately chosen champions that have a relatively simple skill kit that is easy to understand for beginners.

Best LoL Beginner Champions for the Jungle

The Jungler, unlike the other players, does not travel on the so-called “Lanes”. He moves through the Jungle, killing monsters to gain gold and experience, and tries to cause overcount situations on the lanes by “ganks” to support his allies and move them forward.

Master Yi

• Passive: “Double strike” – After some preceding blows, Master Yi strikes twice.
• Q: “Opening blow” – Yi teleports through enemy lines along with his sword, dealing damage to his opponents. Meanwhile, he cannot be targeted.
• W: “Mediation” – Yi stops in place and meditates. He regenerates life and suffers reduced damage.
• E: “Wuju Style” – Gives additional absolute damage to normal attacks.
• R: “Highlander” – Master Yi’s running and attack speed are increased for a short time. He is also immune to slowdowns during “Highlander”. The duration of the ability is extended by kills and supports.

Vi

• Passive: “Shock Shield – Vi charges a shield over a period of time. This is activated when an enemy is hit by one of her abilities.
• Q: “Wall Breaker – Vi charges her glove and then charges forward. Enemies who are hit are knocked back and receive a “Crushing Blows” boost.
• W: “Attritional Blows” – Vi’s normal attacks destroy her opponents’ armor, deal extra damage, and give her attack speed.
• E: “Hard-hitting Evidence” – Vi’s next attack penetrates through her opponent and causes damage behind him as well.
• R: “Ad is out” – Vi charges towards her target, knocking out any enemies in her path. She knocks her target into the air and then hurls it back to the ground.

Amumu

• Passive: “Cursed Touch” – Amumu’s attacks curse his opponents. They take additional absolute damage when hit by magic damage.
• Q: “Bandage Throw” – Amumu throws a bandage at its target, draws near, stuns it, and inflicts damage.
• W: “Despair” – Enemies near Amumu lose a portion of their maximum life per second. Their passive curses are also renewed.
• E: “Tantrum – Permanently reduces the damage Amumu would take. When he activates the ability, damage is dealt to nearby enemies.
• R: “Curse of the Sad Mummy” – Amumu stuns enemies in a circle around him and deals damage to them.

Best LoL Beginner Champions for Top Lane

The top laner, as the name suggests, plays on the top lane. Most often, a tank is played at this position, building up a lot of life, armor, and magic resistance to withstand a lot of damage. Alternatively, fighters are often picked who also have a bit more life, but can also deal a lot of damage.

Cooking

• Passive: “perseverance” – When Garen has not taken damage for a long time and has not been hit by enemy abilities, he regenerates life as a percentage.
• Q: “Decisive Blow” – Garen gains extra running speed and frees himself from slowdowns. His next attack deals extra damage and silences enemies (you can’t use abilities for a short time).
• W: “Courage – Passive: Garen increases his armor and magic resistance when he kills enemies. When he activates the ability, he gets a shield for a short time.
• E: “Straighten” – Garen circles his sword around his body, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
• R: “Demacian Justice” – Garen tries to execute his opponent with his sword.

Darius

• Passive: “bleeding” – Darius’ attacks and abilities inflict a 5-second bleed on his opponents. The bleed can be increased up to 5 times and deals normal damage over time to the enemy. When the target reaches the maximum increase in bleed, Darius deals significantly more attack damage.
• Q: “Decimate” – Darius swings his axe in a large circle. Enemies hit by the blade receive more damage than enemies hit only by the shaft. Darius heals himself depending on the damage he dealt with the blade to enemy champions or large monsters.
• W: “Crippling Blow” – Gives the opponent the bleeding effect and slows him down.
• E: “Seize” – Darius passively ignores some of his opponents’ armor. When he activates the ability, he can pull targets closer to him with his axe.
• R: “Noxian Guillotine” – Darius leaps at his opponent and judges him with his axe. The more increases of “Bleed” the opponent has, the more absolute damage he does. When Noxian Guillotine kills someone, the cooldown is reset.

Best LoL Beginner Champions for Mid-Lane

The mid-lane is mostly played by mages, who deal a lot of magic damage with their abilities. Alternatively, you can play assassins on the mid-lane, but then they specialize in high physical damage.

Xerath

• Passive: “Mana Reserve – Xerath’s normal attacks restore mana from time to time.
• Q: “Arcane Pulse” – Xerath fires a beam that deals damage to all targets it hits.
• W: “Eye of Destruction – Deals damage in a circle and slows enemies. The targets that are in the center of the ability suffer more damage and are slowed more.
• E: “Shock Bullet” – Inflicts damage and stuns enemies.
• R: “Arcane Ritual – Xerath becomes immobilized and can release multiple shots of magic damage in a large radius.

Lux

• Passive: “Enlightenment – Lux abilities charge their opponents with solar energy. Their next attack ignites this energy and deals damage to their target.
• Q: “Light Bondage – Lux hurls a cage of light that traps and inflicts damage on up to two enemy units.
• W: “Prismatic Barrier – Lux throws her wand. All allied targets hit receive a shield.
• E: “Iridescent Singularity” – Hurls a ball of light that slows enemies. Lux can reactivate the ability, causing the orb to explode and add damage to enemies in the area of effect.
• R: “Final Sparkle” – Lux releases a powerful beam of light that deals damage to all enemies it hits.

Annie

• Passive: “Pyromania” – After Annie uses 4 abilities, the next ability stuns her opponent.
• Q: “Resolution” – Annie hurls a fireball that causes damage to her target.
• W: “Burn” – Annie throws a cone of fire that does damage to all enemies hit.
• E: “Molten Shield – Grants Annie or an ally a shield, grants extra running speed, and enemies who attack her normally take damage.
• R: “Summon Tibbers” – Annie summons her teddy bear Tibbers, who can attack and inflict damage on nearby enemies.

Best LoL Beginner Champions for the role AD Carry

AD Carries are shooters who deal physical damage as ranged fighters and move around the lane along with their Supporter.

Caitlyn

• Passive: “Headshot” – Every few attacks, Caitlyn deals a headshot that deals additional damage. The range of Headshot doubles when targets are caught in a net or trap of hers.
• Q: “Piltover Peacemaker” – Caitlyn shoots her rifle, dealing damage to all enemies that are hit.
• W: “Yordle Strike Flag” – Caitlyn places a trap. If an enemy falls into the trap, they are revealed for 1.5 seconds and are immobilized. In doing so, Caitlyn increases the chance of a boosted headshot.
• E: “90 Caliber Net” – Caitlyn fires a net at her opponent, which slows him down and knocks her back herself.
• R: “Ace in the hole” – Caitlyn applies her rifle and deals high damage to a single target. However, the bullet can be intercepted by other enemy champions.

Ashe

• Passive: “Frost Shot – Ashe’s normal attacks slow down their targets. Critical hits do not cause additional damage, but increase the target’s slowdown.
• Q: “Ranger’s Focus” – Ashe builds up “Focus” through her normal attacks. She can activate the ability at maximum “Focus”. This increases her attack speed and turns her normal attacks into a hail of arrows while the effect lasts.
• W: “Volley – Ashe fires arrows in a cone, dealing damage to targets that are hit. The enemies are also slowed down.
• E: “Hawk Shot” – Sends a hawk to uncover a specific area of the map.
• R: “Enchanted Crystal Arrow” – Ashe shoots an ice arrow. When it hits an enemy, it deals damage and stuns the target. The longer the flight time of the arrow, the longer the stun of the enemy.

Miss Fortune

• Passive: “Nudge” – When Miss Fortune attacks a new target, her attacks deal additional damage.
• Q: “Shot Through” – Miss Fortune fires a bullet at an enemy, which also hits another target behind him.
• W: “Shore leave – Miss Fortune passively gains running speed when not under attack. When activated, she gains additional attack speed for a short time.
• E: “Hail of Bullets – Miss Fortune covers an area with a hail of bullets, enemies are hit several times and slowed down.
• R: “Fire at will!” – Miss Fortune shoots a cone-shaped barrage in front of her, dealing damage to hit enemies.

Best LoL Beginner Champions for the Role Support

As a Support, it’s your job to support your AD Carry with healing and shields. In addition to champions that are mainly passive and supportive, there are also aggressive supports. These focus on initiating fights and immobilizing the opponent to give your team an advantage.

Soraka

• Passive: “Redemption – Soraka gets a lot of extra running speed when moving towards allies who are low on life
• Q: “Star Rain – A star falls from the sky, dealing magical damage and slowing enemies. When a champion is hit, Soraka restores life to himself.
• W: “Astral Infusion – Soraka donates part of her life to heal an allied champion
• E: “Equinox” – Soraka generates a field that silences enemies. After the effect time expires, all enemies still in the field are pinned down.
• R: “Wish – Soraka heals all allied champions.

Leona

• Passive: “Sunlight – Leona’s abilities that deal damage cast sunlight on enemies. If allies attack these champions, they deal additional magic damage.
• Q: “Shield of Daybreak” – Leona’s next attack deals additional magic damage and stuns her target.
• W: “Eclipse” – Leone gains damage reduction, armor, and magic resistance. After the ability expires, she deals some damage to nearby enemies.
• E: “Zenith Blade – Leona deals damage to opponents in the row in front of her. She then charges at the backmost enemy champion that has been hit and holds it.
• R: “Solar Flare – Inflicts damage to enemies in an area. Targets in the center of the ability are stunned, those at the edge are only slowed.

While there are many more champions you can try, we hope our list will help you get started.