Why winrates are bullshit.

Meeks011··9 votes·864 views

TL:DW Most of League are bronzies and bronzies get stomped by everything.

Also, someone on Reddit did the analysis and this is what he said. The win rate for Annie is like 51% but the win rate for Annie MID is 55% Why is this? Annie support has a lower win rate than Annie mid. So is Annie's win rate a good representation of how she'll perform in mid? Nooo! Because it's 4% off.

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Raptamei3 votes

Winrates in professional play are very important.

Winrates in wood V are useless.

Meeks0111 votes

Exactly, but they're mixed.

SmknWdl1 votes

so im not insane to go Leona jungle?

Meeks0111 votes

I went on LoLKing to find Leona guides and the like second to top guide was Leona jungle.

SmknWdl1 votes

haha

YossarianSensei1 votes

Yeah keep telling me about how that insta-lock Zed mid is offering anything useful to the team when all he does is Ult, do about 200 dmg per team-fight, then 'juke' away lolol.

Win-rates DO mean something - in fact that's pretty much ALL that matters in solo queue. And there's even a "win-rate by ELO" button on LolKing.

This guy's misconception is that Diamonds don't lose to the same things Bronzies lose to, and the statistics prove it. This ain't LCS 5 man premades, all of solo queue is pretty much equally retarded. It doesn't matter if you're Hi I'm Gosu, if you're playing stupid shyt like Zed mid against Annie, you're going to lose lane by default and jungler probably won't do anything to help you.

Meeks0112 votes

Someone on Reddit did the analysis and this is what he said. The win rate for Annie is like 51% but the win rate for Annie MID is 55% Why is this? Annie support has a lower win rate than Annie mid. So is Annie's win rate a good representation of how she'll perform in mid? Nooo! Because it's 4% off.

YossarianSensei1 votes

It doesn't even matter, either way you have very good evidence that Annie as a champion does not suck ass, as opposed to Zed who is consistently sub 50% win rate and is actually a piece of crap.

But regardless of these readily available statistics, you're going to have teammates across every ELO blind picking Zed and sucking total ass. The issue is everybody thinks they're the 'one exception' to the statistics, and the truth is they never are.

Win-rates mean a whole lot when you're going into a game with almost no known variables other than win-rates, so I don't agree with this guy blowing off win-rates as bull shit. Even if they are, they're all the statistics and evidence you get, so you better bank hard on that bull shit.

Meeks0111 votes

Sejuani is the most broken champ in existance, her highest win rate is proof of that. Why the fuck you complaining about Zed when Sejuani is destorying everything with a 57% win rate. She's OP as balls bro. And Amumu is the second highest. He has one of the lowest ban rates, but we all hate him because he wins everything at a 55% win rate. God forbid tanks have mobility, these tanks definitely need nerfs, even though they haven't been changed in ages and are only doing this well since the last patch.

Martyrofsand1 votes

And yet for all you Annie > Zed talk and Annie's 55% mid lane win rate at the highest levels of play we see Annie get used mid like 1 tim, and often be regulated to her 51% win rate as a support, while Zed still sees regular picks/bans. Guess the best players in the world just don't know what they are doing.

Win rates are crap always have been always will be.

Tengrichan1 votes

winrate meaningless in plat and above

all right

Sooko1 votes

Its possible to see winrates in different Elos though

Meeks0111 votes

Well see below for another explanation for why winrates are messed up in individual elos.

Nucleophilic atk1 votes

"Just because you watched someone play well on a champion doesn't mean you can play well"

My first games of Graves beg to differ.

Nerf dis dude.

thinking man1 votes

High winrate in either solo queue or competitive is an indicator.

You cannot take winrate by tier very well since it's either a joke or the sample size is way too small to matter.

You also don't ignore a massive winrate in solo queue just because.

thicc as fuk1 votes

uhm.. that ending

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