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Loading the tier list…Loading the tier list…Real-Time Arena · Season 38 (+ Season 37 win-rate history) · 44.1K Guardian battles · data through 19 Sept 2026
The SWLens Summoners War RTA tier list ranks the monsters that matter in Real-Time Arena at each competitive grade — Conqueror, Punisher, Guardian and G3 — from S+ tier down to D tier. This is the Guardian tier list, built from 44,057 real Guardian battles recorded in Season 38 — not from opinions, polls or theory-crafting — and it is rebuilt every week, with data through 19 September 2026.
Right now the best monsters in Guardian RTA are Fern and Laima, the S+ tier — clear of everyone else — followed by Giana, Stark, Shi Hou, Oliver, Velaska and Vivachel in S tier, with Haegang, Layla, Nyx, Angela / P.Vanilla, Stark and Juno leading A tier. Every monster on the list links to its Bestiary page with its rune builds, artifacts, team compositions and RTA matchups.
Monsters are ranked first by presence — how often they are drafted, counting both picks and bans, because a monster banned in half of all drafts is feared even when it rarely gets to play — and by how many different players draft them, so a monster a whole grade reaches for beats one a few players spam; then by win rate. Monsters few players own — most nat-5 Light & Dark ones — are credited for their rarity, measured from SWLens users' imported boxes, instead of being buried by their low pick counts. Win rates use every game of the season and are adjusted for sample size, so a monster with a handful of lucky games can't jump to S tier. Every monster drafted in about 1% of battles or more is ranked. The newest season decides the list as soon as it has enough battles, so the tier list follows the current meta after every balance patch instead of averaging in old seasons.
Use it to plan your RTA draft: which monsters to first pick, which to ban, and which to build or rune next. Rarer picks that win clearly more than the Guardian average are ranked too, so strong counter picks show up alongside the meta staples. Switch grades to see how the meta changes with skill — compare this list with the Conqueror tier list, Punisher tier list and Guardian 3 tier list.
The tier list sits alongside the rest of SWLens: RTA Lens tracks the live RTA meta, top players and winning team compositions, the Bestiary covers every monster's builds and stats, and the RTA Builder optimizes your runes and artifacts for the monsters you draft.
