Ranked Tiers: Did you know?

VampiricLlama·11/7/2019, 2:48:06 PM·49 votes·15,496 views

If the entire world of ~7,700,000,000 people all played League of Legends, there would only be 2,695,000 players in Grandmaster!

There are fewer players in Iron than there are in Diamond, fewer players in Bronze than in Platinum, and fewer players in Silver than in Gold!

The top 50% of the playerbase is above Gold IV 15 LP, but if you go up just 3 divisions, to Gold I, you are now looking at the top 22% of all players!

If Challenger players were a chemical element, they would make up about the same percentage of the Earth's crust as Chlorine, a key ingredient in the manufacture of bleach!

There are more than 3 times as many players in Diamond I as there are in Master tier!

Bronze and Iron are the only tiers where most of the players in the tier are in division 1!

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/rank-distribution

46 Comments

ZackTheWaffleMan11/7/2019, 6:36:51 PM32 votes

{quoted}

If Challenger players were a chemical element, they would make up about the same percentage of the Earth's crust as Chlorine

therefore, if you add sodium to a challenger player, you get salt.

Dukues11/7/2019, 6:32:29 PM8 votes

Used to be silver 3 was top 50% now it's gold 4. Even though I benefited from this change this season I still hate it (hit plat 4).

I get why Riot changed it but ruined rankings for me and maybe others lol. Same tier distribution from season 3-8 and then... meh... f it. The Riot Games way indeed.

HommeGoujon11/7/2019, 4:22:44 PM6 votes

I actually enjoyed reading this. Thanks!

Cônnie11/7/2019, 5:59:14 PM5 votes

If Challenger players were a chemical element, they would make up about the same percentage of the Earth's crust as Chlorine, a key ingredient in the manufacture of bleach!

Well then! item 2050

General Esdeath 11/8/2019, 1:29:25 AM3 votes

{quoted} If Challenger players were a chemical element, they would make up about the same percentage of the Earth's crust as Chlorine, a key ingredient in the manufacture of bleach!

is that a kys joke? reported!

ZafferTiashu11/8/2019, 4:38:43 PM2 votes

50% of the player base is above gold IV 15 LP, with fewer players in Silver than there are in Gold, that means that if I put a random number generator and I gave each player 1 number the random number generator would probably do a better job at match making than Riot's current system, because at G2 gaining 20-21 LP I still manage to get silvers in my team :) Riot is literally shooting at the long side of a truck and missing

Garen is adopted11/8/2019, 7:15:30 PM1 votes

that explains why i get only more idi*ts as I climb higher.

CominTowardsYa11/9/2019, 8:26:44 AM1 votes

What about God Tier? What percentage of players make up that tier?

Beacon Academy11/8/2019, 8:02:46 AM1 votes

But what % of the population would be smurfs?

Padoµch11/8/2019, 10:19:24 AM1 votes

And I remember when Gold 5 was top 12,5% so sad to see this actually.

xelaker11/8/2019, 4:13:20 PM1 votes

These facts are neat as numbers, but all I can think of is how awful and wrong the rank like 15% of these people are. Ranked has been busted for so long now :/

(still neat statistics and such)

Jennifer1711/8/2019, 5:04:16 PM1 votes

silver 4 used to be where most players are since season 2... suddenly this season most are in gold.

in 1 season suddenly the majority climbed up to gold. if that doesnt tell you about the ranked system being a broken mess then idk what does.

Jonesybones11/8/2019, 7:14:26 PM1 votes

nope. 50 percent is silver.