The State of Top Lane: Lolalytics and Statistics by Class

So it's getting pretty common to throw around how Tanks are dominating Top at the moment and how Bruisers Not an actual class specification are being pushed out of Top Lane, but I wanted to analyze if it's really true if Tanks as a class are pushing other Classes out of Top Lane. Unfortunately, not many statistics sites do statistics by Class, instead they do it by Champion, so I took it upon myself to record all the information I can find here, and then sort Classes based on how the Wiki sorts out those champions. What we get is this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ex1OTMKVvZW_e62rkOfrim8MW3mAtvQdP3_w2Af3J6Y/edit?usp=sharing

Color-coded based on Lolalytics' Tier List, I recorded the champion statistics for Winrate(B), Best Winrate (/M)(C), Pick Rate(D), and Ban Rate(E). I also combined the Pick and Ban rates(F), and multiplied Winrate by Pickrate to get %Win Influence(G), and Pick and Ban Rate for Total Influence(H). To rephrase, Influence is the % of all games the champion wins in factoring in the % of games it's picked (and banned).

If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the Champion chart, you will find the statistics recorded per class. %Win Rate Influence (B) is the % of all games a Class wins in, calculated by adding the %Win Influence of all champions of that particular class together. What this means is that Top Lane Fighters are winning 32% of ALL games Top Lane. Pick Rate, Ban Rate, and Pick+Ban Rate are all just the summation of each Champion's Rates per class. This means that 65% (out of 200%) of all champions played Top and 57% (again out of 200%) are Fighters. Finally, Winrate is, somewhat self explanatory, the % of games won divided by the % of games played.

Since Tanks vs Bruisers Fighters is a huge argument on the Boards, I think it'd be interesting to look at how much Tanks are absolutely flooding Top Lane. Let's look at some of the data:

• Fighters are the single largest influence on overall Wins in Top Lane. At 32% of all games Top, they have over 10% more influence than the next biggest Class. Not Tanks mind you, but the hot pot that are Specialists. Tanks are the fourth largest class, only beating Lucian Marksman and Mages in % of games won.
• Somewhat obviously, to win so many games, Fighters are probably present in a lot of games. Here, the numbers are very similar to before, with Fighters leading the pack by a huge margin (by about 25% out of 200%) and Tanks being 4th place.
• Ban Rate tells a slightly different story. While Fighters succeed at being the most banned class, Mages shoot up here largely thanks to Vladimir and Malzahar. The margin isn't nearly as far, with Slayers close behind Mages. Interestingly, despite all the apparent backlash against Tanks, they aren't actually banned all that often.
• Specialists, as a (pseudo) class, actually have the highest winrate. Okay, maybe some of these threads have a point, Bruisers aren't winning, it's weirdos like Gangplank and Singed dominating Top. Tanks meanwhile are just below the 50% curve.

Other random details

• Lmao Marksman
• Gnar is the only one I caught being multi-classed. As such I included him in both values.
• Made early morning of February 5th, details are subject to change
• There's a bit of noise in the total percentages if you add them up. Tiny differences (like in cumulative winrates) may not matter at all, however the noise is only within single digits. Huge gaps like the overpopulation of Fighters top should be more than accounted for.