This LoL champion suddenly became the best support in the game after Patch 14.16

Bow before your new support queen.

Summoner's Rift is the only map available in LoL Guessr.
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Following the launch of League of Legends Patch 14.16 last week, the game is seeing a new support on the rise, and it’s one that received substantial changes in the latest update.

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That support is none other than Senna, who’s currently sitting on a jaw-dropping 52.64 percent win rate in all ranks, according to U.GG. This puts her in first place for supports, judging solely by win rate. She’s also being picked very often in League, with a 15 percent pick rate, which translates to over 940,000 games at the time of writing.

Given her massive changes in Patch 14.16, these spikes are hardly surprising. Officially, her update was labeled an “adjustment”, not as a buff. And while her base stats and passive were nerfed, her other abilities were strengthened.

Senna preparing to shoot from her gun.
She’s dominating the support role. Image via Riot Games

Most importantly, Senna’s healing from Piercing Darkness (Q) now has a higher AD and AP converter, and the same goes for the slow from that same ability. Last Embrace’s (W) Root Duration and Dawning Shadow’s (R) shield converters were also improved by the update.

These stats probably won’t last too much longer, though, given Patch 14.17 is coming soon. Riot Games acknowledged Senna’s prowess in the bottom lane and quickly took action, foreshadowing her nerfs in the next patch—more specifically, weakening her AP converters.

That update is still a week away, and is scheduled to release next Wednesday, Aug. 28. Therefore, you still have time to climb the ranked ladder with Senna if you enjoy playing her.

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Mateusz Miter
Freelance Writer at Dot Esports. Mateusz previously worked for numerous outlets and gaming-adjacent companies, including ESL. League of Legends or CS:GO? He loves them both. In fact, he wonders which game he loves more every day. He wanted to go pro years ago, but somewhere along the way decided journalism was the more sensible option—and he was right.