Statistically speaking mages are the least played class of champions

I may afk·2/7/2018, 5:29:46 AM·9 votes·1,097 views

Yasuo or Zed alone have the same playrate as half of the mid lane mage pool.

I'm quite surprised that everyone feels the need to give feedback on AP items and build paths when most of you don't even play mages at all, from a statistical point of view. These boards are filled with support mains, junglers, assassin only players, juggernaut players, and tank players, and of course ADC mains giving their opinions on itemization that actually has nothing to do with them or their champions. I don't care if you play Xerath or Lux once a week, you actually have no business talking about offensive mage itemization unless you actually main mages(which most of you don't).

Please stop talking about "muh manaless champions" or "wut about Mordekaiser" just to meme when you don't even play the champions.

9 Comments

Akali is SO HOT2/7/2018, 6:29:46 AM6 votes

According to statistics on op.gg Assassins overall have about a 33% pickrate. That's not more than 50%

Anatera2/7/2018, 8:30:17 AM3 votes

It's more challenging to play a mage than it is to play someone who doesn't use mana. After all, it's a resource you have to manage with good judgement (mostly).

Lord of Math2/7/2018, 5:30:58 AM2 votes

muh manaless champions wut about mordekaiser, these changes seem to be good for anyways.

Bjørnetjenesten2/7/2018, 1:15:49 PM1 votes

What champions that are strong or getting buffed/nerfed is always relavant , even if you dont play that role.

ƒrostγ2/7/2018, 1:16:40 PM1 votes

They are underplayed due to their poor itemezation and lack of defense against ad champs. An ad assassin/ bruiser can build the foolproof hexdrinker and ignore their burst during the early game.

JackMcSnipeyz2/7/2018, 1:16:58 PM1 votes

Fine, dont talk about adc itemization unless you always play adc, deal?

TEA Nietzsche 2/7/2018, 2:01:53 PM1 votes

Statistically speaking mages are the least played class of champions

WHATTT

Yasuo or Zed alone have the same playrate as half of the mid lane mage pool.

Have you been in touch with reality recently, because it doesn't look like it. Take a look at actual statistics.

Twisted Fate has a higher playrate than all AD midlaners combined - slightly lower if you also want to count Yasuo toplane.

Mages have absolutely dominated midlane, we have less AD midlaners than ever before.

GP? Got thrown out of midlane, he isn't even relevant enough in midlane to be counted by statistics. Kha'Zix? Got thrown out of midlane. Riven? Thrown out of midlane. Jayce? Thrown out of midlane. Pantheon? Was only used to counter AD midlaners and is thus irrelevant. Lucian? Thrown out of midlane.

Azadethe2/7/2018, 9:47:27 AM1 votes

Cute post. Unfortunately, we all generally play all roles. The only reason I don't get to play a lot of Mid is I'm one of those who never just picks two roles. I generally use this cool option called "Fill." If I'm going to climb the ranked ladder, I better damn well have some top/mid/jung/bot games jumbled it with my support to keep me limber.

And, what picks generally boil down to isn't what people prefer to play, but rather what is better to 1 trick to climb. The majority of players have realize by now that when they randomly change roles/champs, they average a far worse MMR. Furthermore, they've realized specific champs are very hard to counterplay, even if they are proficient with other champs. Generally Akali Zed Veigar Shaco Orianna Katarina Find themselves in very hard to counterplay roles. They move around too fast to reliably skill shot, and they cc is that is point and click is few and far between, or they stack forever and fast, or they can almost undetectably 1shot you from behind. So.... people gravitate to them because playing someone like Karma although it may be fun, just doesn't pull 70% results because she doesn't have an unstable kit.

There are a lot of champs that are balanced by their own performance, and then there are champs that are balanced because they generally don't work well with teams, which brings good games into the loss column. Zed For example, is too good at assassinations. His team rarely gets assists of the kills, because he does most of the work himself. In other words, the deaths are worth the 300g for the kill, but they offer no takedown bounties to anyone else. In other words, Zed Starves his team of gold by being too efficient. On the other hand, Karma is a good team player, gets high kill participation rates, gets some kills and gets some assists. She's as middle of the ground as you go. But..... that means that she struggles to carry bad teams, because she's inefficient at sealing the kills

You'll find most Mages are middle grounders, with the exceptions being potentially Ahri (More of an assassin), Fizz (More of an assassin), Lux (When skilled, outputs high and global) And Middle grounders get less play.

There's a reason Supports gravitate to Nami Sona Janna : They are the supports who are not middle grounders.

Teridax682/7/2018, 11:47:43 AM1 votes

I know it's fashionable to claim that one is alone against everyone else on these Boards, but the truth of the matter is that there's a little bit of everyone on here. In fact, Gameplay is notorious for having a mage circlejerk appear on a fairly regular basis, so there definitely is a mage main presence on here. This is not to say that mages deserve no improvements (I personally think there are a lot of issues with mage itemization that have cropped up in recent times), but it helps no-one to just shut everyone else's opinion down but your own, on the grounds that they're not the right kind of main. I'm not quite sure why there's any kind of complaint around players discussing manaless champions or Mordekaiser, either, because from the looks of it quite a few of the new changes benefit both (Liandry's in particular could be totally nuts on Morde).