Champion X has a 55% winrate and a 0.1% pickrate. Champ Y has 45% winrate but 40% pickrate

RedCyclone·Oct 5, 2015·11 votes·834 views

According to G&B, Champion X is overpowered and Champion Y is underpowered because only winrates matter when considering how good a champion is.

13 Comments

Bouncemaster ZacOct 5, 201510 votes

And then there's this abomination Vayne which has the highest pickrate in the game plus an above-average winrate.

EedatOct 5, 20154 votes

plus an above-average winrate.

Winrate is 51%. Thats about as average as it gets

SaiannaOct 6, 20153 votes

Isn't average somewhere 48-50%?

And yes, that 1% makes a difference ;P

Br4ndonOct 6, 20152 votes

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And then there's this abomination which has the highest pickrate in the game plus an above-average winrate.

It's just the mains dude. 30% of the league community is a Vayne main. DUH

luckmalloryOct 5, 20151 votes

Or they could just buff champions that are weak and nerf champs that are strong without caring what their win rate is because that has about 126473849659254956 variables

XelviOct 5, 20151 votes

People aren't very smart.

AxxlonOct 6, 20151 votes

OP has clearly never heard of something called Sleeper op.

Lux

RedCycloneOct 6, 20151 votes

And yet, she still receives little QQ, usually about her high winrate and not her destroying everything

xFrostKnightxOct 6, 20151 votes

In my opinion, champion X looks ok for its play rate, they might need a tiny Nerf. Because 0.1% isn't enough data to confirm if the champion is just unpopular and strong or super high difficulty.

Champion Y looks balanced perfectly, with 40% play rate you get a mixture of bad and good players. So 45-51% win is acceptable.

Leblancs BoobOct 6, 20151 votes

Pick/ban rate is a much better judge of individual champion strength. Winrate may as well be a completely random statistic

KingopantsOct 6, 20151 votes

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Pick/ban rate is a much better judge of individual champion strength. Win Rate may as well be a completely random statistic

Winrates not accurate all the time when a lot of people main a single champ but I sure as hell wouldnt say its completely random.

GentzerOct 6, 20151 votes

Depends on the champion. If Champion Y is someone easy to play, like Annie or Warwick, then those stats WOULD mean underpowered.

I recall reading somewhere that if a high mechanics champ has a 50%+ winrate then that must mean even people who haven't played the champ that well are winning, and the champ must be somewhat OP. High difficulty champs as a result tend to have lower winrates in Solo Queue, but are still strong, see: Azir.