One of the main goals of the League of Legends development team is to use all champions at all levels of the game. Although this is an almost impossible dream given the complexity of the settings, the reality is that Riot Games is moving in the right direction with constant updates increasing the popularity of old characters and many exciting new ones that have caught the public’s attention.
But in a competitive game, the story is a bit different and some of the champions have yet to appear. before reaching the first part of the season.
No one chooses the worst champions in the competition
If you look at the situation in all the official Riot Games leagues, only five champions have been elected or banned from meetings: Brandi, Garen, Katarina, Ramus and Swayne. The truth is, they were barely into season 11 in competitive play.
Although we are only in the first half of the season and heading towards MSI 2022, thousands of games have already been played in every league. The total number is 2841 games, and the absence of these characters indicates their worrying performance at the professional level. Fortunately, they are more effective in a points game. All of the above characters have a win rate of around 50% and cannot be easily upgraded to appear in tournaments.
If we change the rankings and focus only on the top leagues (LEC, LPL, LCK, PCS and LCS), the situation will change drastically. A total of 27 champions who have not yet been drafted or banned will remain as such.. Among them, the surprising absence of Anivia, Elise, Quinn or even Taliyah. Granted, none of the above is regular competitive play, but They are often used occasionally in certain comps that try to get away from the meta a bit.. The full list can be seen in the image below.
Speaking of the great job Riot Games has done with the latest champion updates, It will take a long time for the studio to earn as many champions as they want in competitive play.
Luckily, updates are coming and League of Legends will get two more in the upcoming 12.9 patch. In this case, Talia and Olaf will be entitled to a new version in terms of gameplay.
Source : Millenium
