Welcome to my first installment of my Top Fives. This topic will go over what I believe to be the greatest five passives in the game.

It should be noted that I am judging very carefully. That is, when choosing the winners, I had to incorporate the champion as a whole as most champions' passives work with that champion's other abilities. However, I am not judging the champion itself.

I have categorized all passives into main groups and each of these I chose one champion for each.

1. Sustenance: How do you stay in your lane to keep up with levels and gold? If you play a champion that can regenerate HP and MP, you should be all set. These champions include Veigar with his insane mana regeneration and Ahri with her spellvamp. More importantly, these passives should assist throughout the game and should be useful from start to finish. That's why we need to mention Malphite and his shield or Garen and Mundo's quick HP regeneration. Some of the best champions in this category include Gragas, Mordekaiser, Warwick, Cho' Gath, and, second-most notably, Akali. There can only be one crowned though. I present, queen of sustenance...



2. Stat-for-Stat: Get this. You just bought an item that gives every champion 1000 HP. But your champion, unlike other champions, get an additional 25 ability power. If that isn't reason enough to farm the hell out of minions, I don't know what is. Stat-for-stat passives, such as Galio and Rammus, have always given these champs a slight advantage from beginning to end of any game. I listed three defense-oriented passives. The real money is in the offensive passives such as Kayle's former passive that scaled on AP and AD. It was so good, Riot decided to remove it entirely from her, for good reason. Think about it. Whereas one champion would perhaps have to spend 100 gold for 25 AP, Kayle would get 25 AP and 10 AD. Since the Kayle remake, she will not join her sister on my list. No, the champion here is...



3. Global Buffs A little ridiculous. A lot ridiculous. Every champion on your team gets a free buff? Off the bat and throughout the game, your team has an instant and persistent advantage. Whether you choose Twisted Fate and his gold bonus passive or Zilean's experience buff, you will be sure to get ahead faster than the enemy. But only one champion's buff reigns above others.



4. Conditional Buffs Classical conditioning at its best: Do this and get that. This is a frequent theme among passives. There are some passives that encourage jumping right into battle like Wukong's, Renekton's, and Sion's. Some passives change gameplay like Shaco's Backstab and Leona's Sunlight. There are a few charged passives too like Yi's and Nunu's. These passives are all about decisions and can change games without even thinking about it. But one champion's tops the many others...



5. All Others: Taking into account 100 different champions with 100 different skills is not that easy. You can start at Nautilus and Sejuani, then find yourself admiring Talon and Irelia. There are just so many good passives. The decision was tough but the winner is...

I agree with most of the picks, but i think the best passive in the game goes to Teemo.

Best passive is by far Poppy. I still have never mastered her because of her insanely hard early-mid game, but once you get a tri-force, warmogs, frozen mallet, and atmas there is no single champion ingame thar can 1v1 her. Even riot has said that she needed nerfs but couldnt becauae she already sucks so hard early game. Just my 2 cents.

helios those champs you're talking about are all nerfed. at least ww, morde and talon are.

[quote="[R"] IIShaneII]
i think anivia has an OP passive lol an auto GA, imagine having another GA as an item with that, you would have to kill her 4 times lmao thats what i had in my last game 12/3 anivie with GA and 600 AP have fun killing me 4 times xD
[/quote]

dude thats so true! I hate lanning against that champ, especially when his passive kicks in under a turret when you thought you killed him and you can't touch him and BAM! he pops up with cds refreshed...

Ashe by far has one of the lamest passives out there, it's good for minions but little else...

Anivia's passive puts her into an egg in a frying pan. Hungry? If she could live and move around rather than hibernate for five seconds, she could cast spells to keep her alive. All it does is prevent tower diving really. I'd take Zilean's ult over that any day.

I think Veigar has a great passive. Plus 1 AP per minion kill with Q? Can get devastating.

Veigar's passive is so good, I never ever build mana regen on him.

well, to be honest. A really strong passive would be either skarner or ryze. they pretty much MAKE the champion

CDR is overrated. Too easy to get for not too much difference. Those champs rely too much on their passives.