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LoL Classic Summoner Spells Tier List 26.22

Every summoner spell you can bring to the Rift in LoL Classic, tiered by us from our own research.

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Best Summoner Spells in LoL Classic

You get two slots and the whole list to fill them from, which is why this board is one ranking rather than a set of brackets. A letter here answers a single question: does this spell earn one of those two slots ahead of everything else you could have brought. Classic keeps spells that live League has long since dropped, so several of these are real options here that no modern guide will tell you how to weigh.

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STop pick1 summoner spellTake it on nearly every champion.Click any summoner spell for its gradeTap a card for its grade

Flash

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AStrong4 summoner spellsOwns the second slot in the roles that want it.

Barrier

Exhaust

Ignite

Smite

BSolid4 summoner spellsStrong when the matchup or the draft asks for it.

Cleanse

Ghost

Heal

Teleport

CSituational2 summoner spellsSituational, and only on the right champion.

Clairvoyance

Fortify

DWeak4 summoner spellsRarely worth one of your two slots.

Clarity

Promote

Revive

Surge

EAvoid1 summoner spellHard to justify over anything else on this list.

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What each tier means

STop pick Take it on nearly every champion.
AStrong Owns the second slot in the roles that want it.
BSolid Strong when the matchup or the draft asks for it.
CSituational Situational, and only on the right champion.
DWeak Rarely worth one of your two slots.
EAvoid Hard to justify over anything else on this list.

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How to Pick Your Summoner Spells in LoL Classic

Two slots against a list that never shrinks.

01Every spell is graded against the whole listTwo slotsThere is no slot or tree to compete inside here, so a letter is measured against every other spell you could have taken instead. That is why one spell sits alone at the top.

02Three masteries change what a spell does16 spells improvedSummoner's Wrath, Resolve and Insight each buff a fixed set of spells, and the buff is part of the pick. Every card below names its mastery and states Riot's exact bonus.

04Not every grade is evidenced the same way3 confirmed · 13 corroborated · 0 single-sourceConfirmedCorroboratedThe grades are ours; the label says how much era evidence backs each one. Confirmed means era sources agree, corroborated means two lined up, and single-source means the grade rests on stat magnitude and slot economics. Each summoner spell card names which of the three it is.

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