User blog comment:Alonlah/Who is the best dueler in the game?/@comment-12314620-20140123145610

The way I think of a champion as a point of being a good duelist is "skip early game and start fighting when you have your core items". Because of this for example showdown stats wouldn't reflect a champion being a good duelist  because the game was really early game focused. Another "rule" I'd like to add when thinking of the best duelist is thinking how do they do in a balanced comp (= your opponent's won't be itemizing only against you, ofcourse though if you are for example Malzahar/WW you should account for QSS, on the other hand if you are ad champ this wouldn't mean your opponent stacks thornmail and only armor).

My top 3 for best duelist would propably at least at the moment be Quinn, Vayne and LeBlanc. Quinn actually beats Vayne 1v1, it's a tight fight between the two but Quinn has the advantage. Even after Vayne nerfs a good Vayne player is still able to win pretty much every champion 1v1. LeBlancs whole kit is just ridiculously good for 1v1 fights because she's practically impossible to catch when managed properly and silence/root combos make retaliating extremely hard.

Note that all of these picks require really good mechanics to actually win duels. For example ofcourse Jax is going to destroy a Vayne if Vayne just keeps taking hits to the face, the key here is that if both players would perform mechanically "perfect" fight to the death I think that Vayne would come out top.