Honor of Kings tier list – Every character ranked by their potential

• Sun Ce
• Kai
• Lam
• Nakoruru
• Ying
• Kong Ming
• Zhou Yu
• Erin
• Lady Sun
• Zhang Fei
• Zhuang Zhou
• Ata
• Yun Zhongjun
• Li Bai
• Shangguan Wan’er

Kai has long been treated as an off-lane tanker that can handle even the mightiest of bruisers in the solo lane. This is thanks to his passive skill that states he will deal additional damage when fighting only 1 enemy. Almost majestically, his entire skill set revolves around demolishing the opponent in a 1v1 situation. Kai can self-sustain through his 1st ability, crowd control and push back enemies with 2nd ability, and gain a huge chunk of damage mitigation with the Ultimate ability. Use this beast of a character in the solo lane to crush the willpower of your opponents as they struggle to even farm safely in the lane!
Kong Ming continues to wreak havoc in both the mid-lane as well as the jungle. The past buffs have reinvented the constant passive tech on Kong Ming, where his lightning bolts last longer and he is able to target heroes first always. Kong Ming’s domination comes in the form of very high mobility accomplice by high damage output. His 2nd ability also helps him manoeuvre around the map more easily, as it charges up to 3 dashes at max level. If you’re a low HP target, then beware, as his ultimate ability can directly execute you if you’re in the fatal range. Plus, it has quite the long range.

Gongsun Li, the apprentice of a legendary master, is classified as the protégé that will carry forward his teachings. Donning a stylish umbrella, she’s not as cute and innocent as firstly perceived. All of her abilities are revolving around the positioning of her umbrella. She can transport to it by using any of her abilities, provided she is in range and the cooldown of the ability hasn’t run out. Gongsun Li can quite literally shred tanks due to her mixed damage dealing capabilities, involving a lot of true damage.
Hou Yi is another one of those cool looking marksmen that just gets the job done when you need him. Blessed with the power of Sun God, this guy can shred through waves of minions thanks to his 1st ability that splits his normal attacks into multiple arrows. Sounds sick? Well, wait ‘til you know what the rest of his abilities do. He gets passively more attack speed when he attacks anything on the map – towers, minions, heroes, or objectives. Hou Yi can also be quite the playmaker with his ultimate ability that spans globally and can stun an enemy character upon being hit. The stun duration depends on how long the ability was charged for.

If you like some out-of-body experiences, Sima Yi is the character you should try out! He scales like a beast, and deals some of the highest magic damage in the entire game. Sima Yi can be flexed in the jungle or the mid-lane, depending on the team. His 1st ability allows his soul to roam freely at a higher movement speed and bring along his body with him if he tags an enemy hero. His 2nd skill can wreak havoc on a group of enemies with an AOE-targeted silence and magic damage circle. Oh, and Sima Yi can also quite literally jump towards you from half a map distance, thanks to his ultimate ability.

Right in the middle of the Honor of Kings tier list, we have Genghis Khan, which is a strong hyper carry but takes too long to scale into oblivion. He is preferred in the dragon lane, ideally with a support hero constantly guarding him due to his low mobility. To compensate, this guy packs some serious punch in the form of his stackable arrows that can even crit enemies. His abilities are also quite long-ranged, making Genghis Khan one of the safest marksmen to play against assassins. Fond of landmines? Well, Genghis Khan loves them! His 2nd ability can entrap enemies in landmines that slow them, damage them, and reveal their location.

Di Renjie is the free hero that every player gets upon completing the initial tutorial. Does that make him bad? Not at all! In fact, he enjoys quite the success in early-mid game scenarios, thanks to his passive ability that allows constantly stacking attack speed and attack damage. Di Renjie lacks mobility, allowing him to be a free target for pretty much all assassins in the game. Di Renjie can dish out a ton of magical/physical mixed damage due to his extraordinarily high damage multipliers on his ultimate ability.
Huang Zhong is not your regular marksman as he possesses the ability to turn into a turret, quite literally. His main catch remains to be the ultimate ability that allows Huang Zhong to shoot unlimited turret shots from a long range, for a specific duration of time. This helps your team siege towers and other important objectives quite easily. On the negative side, being a turret pretty much leaves Huang Zhong as an immovable object that can be easily preyed upon. His passive makes good use of his fury, giving Huang Zhong stacking Crit rate and attack damage.

Both Tigerous and Daji are consistently rated the worst by both win rate statistics as well as by community veterans, hence their spot at the bottom of the Honor of Kings tier list. While Daji is a decent point-and-click hero with little to no intricate mechanics, Tigerous is simply unusable in most situations due to extremely low damage multipliers and slow wave clear. Oh, and both the heroes are given for free. Coincidence? We hope not!