Meta Decks Matchup Table and Guides - Guardians of the Ancient Season • Deck Guides • Legends of Runeterra (LoR) • RuneterraCCG.com

How to use this page

This page is intended to serve as your complete guide to the Guardians of the Ancient season meta.

The matchup table below is compiled using the data presented in the RuneterraCCG deck guides. To know how favorable or unfavorable a particular matchup is, find your deck in the 1st column, then choose your opponent in the 1st row. The corresponding table cell will contain the percentage evaluation of your matchup.

The in-depth guides to the decks in the table can be found under the table. Clicking on banners will send you to the corresponding guides. Each guide contains a recommended decklist, tips on how to pilot and mulligan the deck, and detailed explanations of all the deck’s matchups. Most of the guides are written by Agigas, but we will be also featuring recent guides by other writers. These will not necessarily be in full accordance with the matchups table on this page as they may represent a different take on the decks.

The information presented on this page and all the guides by Agigas are kept up-to-date as the meta evolves. Going forward, we will continue writing new guides for other archetypes that were not featured previously and adding them to the series.

The purpose of this page is to include a competitive-oriented guide for every prominent deck in the meta, backed up by in-depth matchup info.

Change Log (last updated: June 15)

March 23: Lissandra SI guide added. All guides updated to include the Lissandra SI matchup. Matchup Table updated for the Empires of the Ascended season.
March 24: Aphelios TF guide updated to includes a section presenting some of the different ways to build around the Aphelios-Temple package.
March 27: Overwhelm Shurima guide added. All guides updated to include the Lissandra SI matchup.
April 5: Matchups table rebuilt for the 2.5.0 patch. Guides retired: Fizz TF, Aphelios TF, Fiora Shen, Scouts.
April 6: Spider Aggro guide added. Zoe Lee, Discard Aggro, Lissandra SI, Ezreal Draven, and Pirate Aggro decklist and guide updated. All guides updated to include the Spider Aggro matchup.
April 11: Deep, Thresh Nasus, and Zoe Asol added to the matchup table. Nightfall Matchups updated.
April 12: Nightfall guide added. Other guides updated to include the Nightfall matchup. Nasus Thresh guide by Sorry and Shen Jarvan guide by Raphterra added.
April 15: Ezreal Draven guide updated (decklist and a few gameplay videos).
April 17: Ashe Noxus guide added. All guides updated to include the Ashe Noxus matchup.
April 20: Thresh Nasus guide by Agigas added. All guides updated to include the Thresh Nasus matchup. Pirate Aggro removed from the matchup table and moved to ‘Retired Guides’ section.
May 18: Azir Irelia guide by Asher added. Azir Irelia and Azir Nox added to matchup table. Jarvan Shen removed from the matchup table and moved to ‘Retired Guides’ section.
May 24: Shyvana Dragons guide by Mezume added.
June 15: Deep guide by Random7 added.

Retired Guides

These archetypes remain functional, but either have fallen out of meta or currently remain unpopular. We have excluded them from the table below and no longer update them with the newest decklists and matchup info. However, the guides are still very relevant to use if you want to pick up and learn the deck:

Deck	Nasus	Az Irel	Ez Drav	Dragon	Liss SI	Discard	OverW	Azir Nox	Zoe Lee	Spider	NightF	Ashe NX	Deep
Nasus	50	60	55	45	50	55	40	60	50	60	50	50	60
Az Irel	40	50	50	50	65	40	55	30	65	30	45	60	60
Ez Drav	45	50	50	50	40	60	45	50	45	50	60	65	45
Dragon	55	50	50	50	40	40	50	50	60	55	60	40	50
Liss SI	50	35	60	60	50	65	35	50	45	70	60	55	35
Discard	45	60	40	60	35	50	65	55	55	60	55	65	60
OverW	60	45	55	50	65	35	50	40	45	40	50	45	60
Azir Nox	40	70	50	50	50	45	60	50	55	45	45	65	60
Zoe Lee	50	35	55	40	55	45	55	45	50	45	40	40	60
Spider	40	70	50	45	30	40	60	55	55	50	35	60	60
NightF	50	55	40	40	40	45	50	55	60	65	50	45	60
Ashe NX	50	40	35	60	45	35	55	35	60	40	55	50	40
Deep	40	40	55	50	65	40	40	40	40	40	40	60	50