Only Winrates For EXPERIENCED Players Matter

SirLime·12/8/2016, 10:19:49 PM·2 votes·514 views

Stop caring about random winrates in a vacuum. Unless you're looking at experienced players (assuming similar ELO brackets) with 50+ games on a champion, the winrates do NOT tell you about the objective strength of a given champion. They only tell you how easy said champion is to pick-up for Platinum+ players. Riot understands this to an extent and even said that if a champion like Zed had a 50% winrate, he'd be broken.

Finally, winrats should be viewed in the context of playrate. The less a champion is played, the more likely that it's by mains or that the champion is picked into favorable compositions. On the other hand, the same winrate for a champion with 20% playrate could be very worrying.

4 Comments

Seath no scales12/8/2016, 10:22:42 PM2 votes

If win rates don't objectively tell us the strength of a champion how would riot know that zed having a win rate of 50% would mean he's broken?