Why is the winrate of a champion so important?

Vigilente·7/20/2017, 11:43:40 PM·2 votes·730 views

i dont know why people focus on winrate so much. Champion A (45% winrate) can still be more OP than Champion B (55% winrate). Just imagine flipping a coin 1000 times. Its realistic that 450 times you get heads, right? That is a 45% chance of getting heads when a coin flip is a perfectly balanced, unbiased, equal chanced occurrence. But does this mean that tails is more likely to be flipped? No, it just is random luck. Just like the winrate of champions.

12 Comments

Evil Yasuo7/20/2017, 11:46:39 PM2 votes

Because a high winrate means the champion is more capable of carrying. Just because a champ can delete people, doesn't mean they can carry.

Mordepool7/20/2017, 11:49:16 PM2 votes

Usually a short-sighted player will argue winrate purely. But it is usually a combination of winrate+ playrate (playrate of hard counters+ number of hard counters) aswell as the Champion kit itself. For example Ryze 44% winrate average playrate. In higher Elos his winrate is closer to 58%

44-58% is the Difference in a Team coordinating around his Ultimate

Shadòw7/21/2017, 12:11:43 AM1 votes

when you flip a coin 1000 times and you only get heads 450 then something is unbalanced.

even if it doesn't sound like it, the chance to only get 450 times heads on a balanced coin in 1000 tosses is unrealistically small.

believe me or not, it's actually smaller than 0,1%

so if you only get 450 heads out of 1000 coin tosses, something is unbalanced. the same goes for winrates. if a champion only wins 450 out of 1000 games, it's not just luck, it's simply unbalanced (or another factor like hard to master).

Big Lincoln7/21/2017, 12:12:42 AM1 votes

it lets me farm replies

zacktootall7/21/2017, 12:45:26 AM1 votes

well it is either a confidence if your pick has the better winrate and if their pick has the better winrate then it's "challenge excepted". in other words a fun little thing that just adds to the game