[PotD] [Survey] Personality Type and Favorite Champion <> UPDATE and DATA

Sir ArmaMalum··42 votes·20,763 views

Hey guys, remember this?

For those of you who weren't around, I came around asking for people to help me out to see if there was any trends between personality types and favorite champions. Well the responses were staggeringly huge and I've only crunched them partially, but I do indeed have an update at the very least.

http://imgur.com/a/3fXTv#oxU6kkf

Here is the overarching data as of 12:36pm 9/24/14, about the time where the response rate died down. Naturally I don't expect to just tack this pictures on and say "have fun", I have a few interesting tidbits I can share with you, no squinting required. (seriously these graphs are freaking huge)


######Yes, I know I mispelled Blitzcrank.....

Note: * means this type was underrepresented compared to the rest of the sample size and will naturally have a false variance.

#Significant Peaks (based on % of votes per type)

  • ENTP

    • Fizz
    • Zed
  • INFP

    • Quinn
  • INTP

    • Rumble (Mild)
  • ENFJ

    • Blitzcrank (Mild)
  • ENFP

    • Rengar (Mild)
  • ISTJ

    • Ryze
  • ISFJ

    • Shyvana (Mild)
    • Nami
    • Orianna
    • Sona
    • Soraka
    • Tryndamere (Mild)
    • Syndra (Mild)
    • Thresh (MASSIVE)
  • ESTJ*

    • Fizz
    • Pantheon
    • Veigar
    • Draven (Mild)
    • Kayle
  • ESFJ*

    • Nami
    • Lucian (MASSIVE)
    • Annie
    • Jarvan IV
    • Pantheon
    • Twitch
    • Vel'koz
    • Ziggs
    • Zilean
  • ISFP

    • Gnar
    • Riven
  • ESTP

    • Vayne (MASSIVE)
    • WuKong
    • Zed
    • Draven (Mild)
  • ESFP

    • Ahri
    • Akali
    • Graves
    • Irelia
    • Zed

Significant Drops (Suggesting avoidance) (Based % of Votes per type)

  • ISTJ

    • Katarina
  • ISFP

    • Vayne (MASSIVE)
  • ISFJ

    • Katarina
    • Khazix
    • Lee Sin
    • Yasuo
  • ESFJ*

    • Jinx (zero, not single one of 304 responses voted for her)
  • ISTP

    • Alistar

#What does it mean?

Well, even with 33,000+ responses, such a broad and generalized question will still cloud the analysis by a significant amount. But I think there are a few things we can take away from this that proves interesting.

#1) ISFJ's are rebels

Seriously though, ISFJ's seem to have a tendancy both towards healing supports and an avoidance of assassins. Being "Introverted Observant Feeling Judgement", that makes a surprising amount of sense. Granted ISFJ's were also within the lower half of the representation so the extreme variance in their results could have been exacerbated by that. But nonetheless ISFJ's seem to go against the FotM champions for the most part.

#2) Observant Types have a much greater 'focus' on their preferences

All the peaks and dips were quite close to being exclusively on the XSXX side of the equation. This could suggest the XNXX (Intuitive) type's natural tendency to be flexible cropping up, while the observant focus more on their own preferences. One wonders how often XNXX types call "fill" versus XSXX types........

#3) Playstyle correlations in ESTP and ESFP types

ESTP's seem to like the "burst stealth", juking champs. (Peak at Zed, Vayne, WuKong)

ESFP's seem to prefer close range, burst damage champs. (Peaks at Graves Akali, Ahri, Irelia, Zed) Irelia being a bit of an outlier.


Upcoming

I will be churning out pie charts per champion over the next few weeks (i.e. weighted breakdown of types for Aatrox players, Ahri players, etc.). I apologize for not having those out yet, it's the classic Testing Gauntlet before the drop date at Virginia Tech and naturally that has taken priority. They'll e out eventually though!

Too much college, not enough time >_<

Want to help out? The survey's still going! Additional responses will help refine the analysis as well as better represent the League community, so if you haven't taken the few minutes to give it a go, what are you waiting for?!

Step 1) Take this personality test: http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Step 2) Take this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10uiEnixPqfHWpC6HGmghEQOOH18CWUuy4Q0h_MDSvnA/viewform

Step 3) See the results here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10uiEnixPqfHWpC6HGmghEQOOH18CWUuy4Q0h_MDSvnA/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

66 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum14 votes

Re-posted because I put this up late last night and I don't believe many people who helped me out with this got to see it before getting buried.

MrBuffington6 votes

upvoted to try to prevent it from being buried :3

RiotRiot Baconhawk5 votes

Stickied and Post of the Day'ed

MrBuffington1 votes

GG, BaconHawk OP :P

Rew7111 votes

As a Udyr main, what am I?

I found it out and am very creeped out.

  1. I also play Gnar a lot and can relate to that but Udyr....

Its just too real. 0_o

RiotRiot Baconhawk7 votes

I really like this!

  1. Observant Types have a much greater 'focus' on their preferences All the peaks and dips were quite close to being exclusively on the XSXX side of the equation. This could suggest the XNXX (Intuitive) type's natural tendency to be flexible cropping up, while the observant focus more on their own preferences. One wonders how often XNXX types call "fill" versus XSXX types........

I'm an INTJ and I always call "Fill". I actually prefer to be surprised by my role... it gives me fresh perspective on the role/champ if I get surprised by it, rather than predetermining and demanding it. I actually play worse when I play the same champs over and over... but when I get to come back to them in a fill role, I am a goddess. /humble

Riotdavin7 votes

Oh, cool! I'm one of the folks from the Research team :)

Would love to know more about why you chose the measures you did. Have you considered doing something like Big Five for the personality measurement? You could use the short-form version pretty easily. Might be fun to do a role-based analysis as well.

What are the sample characteristics of this? Opt-in stuff can get some interesting skew in parameters sometimes, might be neat to weight or subset based on that.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

Hello! I'm glad you found it interesting ^_^

As a forewarning, I'm brand spanking new to the world of applied statistics, I'm an Engineering Student at Virginia Tech so this could have been infinitely better set-up I'm sure. I've learned more about survey data analysis in the last week than I ever thought I would find out in a lifetime, lol.

Have you considered doing something like Big Five for the personality measurement?

I chose MBTI and this specific test simply due to personal experience. It was what I was personally familiar and have worked with before (and by that I mean taking a few dozen separate MBTI tests for college prep). Not to mention easier it's easier on my end to work with 16 set points instead of ranges. In hindsight, proper implementation of a non-overlapping variable like the Big Five would probably be better at ferreting out the subtler trends.

Might be fun to do a role-based analysis as well.

I actually wanted to do that in this same survey (and, again, in hindsight I probably should have), but I got burned on a previous 'age in the playerbase' survey by trying to pre-group the results so I wanted to tackle this one in as few and simple steps as possible to make sure I got this one down right. You are about the 50th person to ask for this, so I'll definitely be trying that out later once the forums settle down from the upcoming switch. XD

What are the sample characteristics of this?

Ideally I wanted to keep the survey on the forums to retain the PvP.net log-in requirement, but alas, I had to sacrifice refinement for numbers in this case. Just have the origin site and total MBTI representation. (On the off-chance you didn't see, raw data is here)

Naturally any suggestions you can give to improve later attempts, as a professional in this area, would be awesome! I've already been pointed to places like 'Project R' by other interested individuals. This has seriously been a learning opportunity for me ^_^

Riotdavin2 votes

R is a super nice tool! If you're interested in learning more about research in general, I'm a fan of Emily Hall's "Just Enough Research" as a simple, pithy guide to how research works in design. It won't go deep into methods or analysis, but will give you a cool sense of what all is out there.

You could actually still do a role-based analysis by assigning role tags to champs, though it'll obviously be a different kind of analysis than "preferred role".

RiotRiot Baconhawk6 votes

Ahhh no INTJ trends?

WE AREN'T TRENDY, MY JUDGMENTAL, THOUGHTFUL FRIENDS

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

You're actually too trendy! You're all divided amongst the champion choices almost perfectly! You're too flexible and versatile!

Seriously though, out of all the types I believe INTJ's were the ones that scaled the closest to the average division. Although amost all of the Intuitive types (XNXX) followed suite. I'm fairly confident this means that Intuitive type personalities are the ones that are much more open to calling "fill" and choosing champions to fit the comp rather than having a set favorite. It's interesting!

Legostrike3 votes

Makes sense though. From a strategical standpoint your team stands more chance of winning if you're able to play every role moderately and everyone else is playing a role that they're good at.

Sir ArmaMalum3 votes

And that my good sir/madame is why you're an INTJ. That makes sense to you. XD

#Analyst

ShadowKnight12241 votes

This feels like common sense though. Doesn't everyone do this?

Merxamers1 votes

that does make sense, i guess. i am a person that will call 'fill' pretty often, and i'm an INFJ according to the test (though i always thought i was an INTJ :P)

RiotRiot Baconhawk1 votes

I just posted a comment about this (shoulda read down further...) I am endlessly fascinated by this. I LOVE playing "fill" as I feel I just play better when surprised by a role rather than playing the same thing over and over again. (That's apparently not just me!)

Tapu Fini3 votes

No INTP either :l

Dragon Fang Shot2 votes

Nor INFJ.

Wasabo3 votes

There wasn't much on ISTP :
Good work anyways :)

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

ty!

Legostrike1 votes

Any comments about INTJ's? I noticed a lot of us like Zed, I'm thinking of learning him as well, seems fun. I've always liked Cho'Gath though, minion churning machine.

Sir ArmaMalum3 votes

Across the whole of the sample you guys stuck to the average % like your life depended on it, lol. Most all of the Intuitive types (XNXX) seem to be that way for the most part. The Observant types (XSXX) seem to be the ones who polarize their champion choices. This could imply Intuitive personality types being more flexible and calling "fill" more often, or in other words preferring not to prefer a specific champion.

Specifically within INTJ's I notice they're spiking near champions with some form of an auto attack mechanic (albeit this is a very broad stretch). The sample as a whole tends to also lean towards very mobile, carry-team capable champions so Zed would be a good idea. (I would suggest him over Cho either way, not to say Cho isn't fun though)

Cleril1 votes

INTJ master race here.

Can confirm loving champions that are carry-team capable and very mobile.

Am not terribly fond of Zed though. Personally I play Rengar, Xerath, Viktor, and typically do oddball junglers (most recent was Janna jungle).

Xerath while not mobile himself has mobile abilities he fits.

RiotRiot Baconhawk1 votes

INTJ. Yasuo. /thread

Kankberry1 votes

You should compile the picked champions to show totals so we can see who is most enjoyed and least enjoyed among all personalities. Would be interesting IMO.

Sir ArmaMalum2 votes

so......sorta like this?

http://i.imgur.com/ySUMpw4.png

:P

RiotRiot Baconhawk3 votes

The two people who picked Yorick. Who are you... show yourselves...

Rueian1 votes

I havn't filled out the survey yet but i'd totally pick yorick.

Frayace1 votes

I picked Yorick :D
but I'm ENFP, so i guess my vote was too late for the chart D:.

Merxamers1 votes

something you may want to consider is that some people, such as myself, love to play a BUNCH of different champs, so just choosing one feels a little weird. (i am a INFJ/INTJ)

Darkomantis1 votes

Where is INFJ? :(

My most reliable jungle is Shaco [60% winrate] (which I own two skins for) My favorite top laner is Gangplank [50% winrate] (which I can be frustrated with at times because of how weak he can be half of the times)

I like to play LeeSin from time to time even though I suck with him. I also play Garen and Warwick if I chicken out of my mains above. A few champs that I have enjoyed in peaks but later dropped is Darius , Renekton , Nasus , Malzahar , MasterYi . Someone on the forums said I might generally like 'burst-dps' champions.

kayakninja1 votes

INFP. You know, I've said before that Quinn is the kind of champion that, based on what else I play, I should enjoy but I've never been able to get behind her. That being said, I do have a lot of fun on Gnar and Graves, who I identify as a very similar style.

TB Wolf1 votes

INFP as well, I would play Quinn if she was a bit better as an adc, but she doesn't really have a place atm. I immensely enjoy playing her, I just don't find her very good outside of 1v1s.

Albior1 votes

This test is not taken seriously by psychologists, dunno why people think it means anything on the internet

Sir ArmaMalum2 votes

MBTI are a somewhat familiar, easy access system that makes incredibly large every-man surveys like this much easier to fill out.

I wasn't intending to look for collegiate approval or anything. Hell, I'm not a statistician or psychologist, I'm just a curious guy who asked a question :P

sp4411 votes

Hey! I thought I'd be the only one who would vote for Urgot as my fav champion!

Darkomantis1 votes

Question to OP, should I purchase the premium profile? I don't know if it's worth it or not.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

I am not advertising their services beyond the free test. I would suggest no. You get plenty of information already and any truly specific information will require a much more detailed questionnaire to be accurate. While I myself have not paid for it, and therefore cannot 100% say this is the case, I remain confident you will regret spending money on it.

Fathappy31 votes

I took the test and ended up as an INTP but my type isn't represented in your post.
Is there a reason for this?

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

The types specifically mentioned, and the champions of such, represent significant peaks and dips based on % of that personality type on that champion. If the the type wasn't mentioned it's because that personality type did not have a significant peak or dip. Most Intuitive types (XNXX) seem to "stick with the crowd" for the most part and have specifically non-polarized results.

Darkomantis1 votes

You could have at least listed those types somewhere in the OP so people wouldn't get confused over it... Saying "XNXX" isn't all that helpful but actually more confusing.

Best 6pool OCE1 votes

Rumble seems to have quite a significant peak for INTPs.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

A mild one yeah. I was largely on the lookout for >.5% difference, but I'll agree that's a mild peak.

Fires of Justice1 votes

As a huge Myers-Briggs enthusiasts, this is one of the coolest surveys I've ever seen!! Thanks for doing this! #ENFP

Also, ahhhh I'm surrounded by INTJs. Disconcerting, yet provocative! You all make me so crazy, and yet so crazy!

Skiren1 votes

This is neat, I'm INTP myself, so I keep looking for all those in the charts XD I'm unsure why INTP is leading for so many champs in the 3rd chart?(when it wasn't seeming to be leading in like any in the chart before the 3rd)

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

The third chart was flat votes. INTP and INTJ completely dominated the representation, only the two of them made up a third of the 33,000+ responses. Naturally this means that they will also dominate across all champions due to simply higher numbers. I left that there for thoroughness' sake.

You can see appropriate trends for most types in the second chart, which displays percentage of a type's votes per champion. Of course this in turn skews the data for underrepresented groups (one vote in a lower total means more weight for that one person), but not as severely.

tl;dr data analysis is funny sometimes :P

Old Man Teeto1 votes

haha

Took the test.

I'm ENFJ, and my favorite champion has been Blitzcrank for a long time.

Only champion I took the time to write a guide for on the old forums too.

exiledFromBadmen1 votes

INFP and Elise? Can you find a connection?

Best 6pool OCE1 votes

No INTP? Nothing? Are we that rare? :'(

Edit: Oh I see, just no trends for us.

Edit 2: Wait, WHAT?!? INTPs had THE most number of responses out of all types?? From everything I've read, INTPs are one of, if not the most rare MBTI personality type, so this is very interesting.

Also find it interesting that my favourite champ fiddlesticks is most preferred by INTPs, and not many other types. The analysis of INTPs on 16personalities is also amazingly scary, it describes me to a T and more, making me realise things about myself I had never noticed but are so accurate.

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